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Attachment Weaponisation: The Bond Was Never an Accident

Attachment Weaponisation: The Bond Was Never an Accident I never noticed the closeness being built. I just assumed it was love, and assumed what I owed because of it, without either of us ever saying it out loud. Short version: Trauma bonding is usually described as something that happens to you, almost by accident, through unpredictable reward. A 2025 Cambridge study, interviewing eighteen women with sustained attachment to abusive partners, found something sharper underneath that: the closeness itself is often deliberately constructed early on, specifically so it can be exploited later. Researchers call this attachment weaponisation. The unsettling part is that it isn't always obvious while it's happening. It can feel completely organic, right up until you realise how much invisible obligation got built into it along the way. What is attachment weaponisation? A 2025 study led by researchers at the University of Cambridge, published in the journal Violence Aga...

What is serendipity

 Serendipity is a noun that describes the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way1. It’s often associated with finding something good without looking for it, like a fortunate stroke of luck or a happy accident. The term was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754, inspired by the fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip,” where the heroes make discoveries by accidents and sagacity of things they were not in quest of2. It’s a concept that captures the beauty of unexpected joy and the delight of discovering something wonderful by chance.

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