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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 are the tax brackets self employed and employee UK

 In the UK for the tax year 2024/2025, the income tax rates are as follows:

  1. Personal Allowance (0% tax rate): Up to £12,570.
  2. Basic rate (20% tax rate): Earnings between £12,571 and £50,270.
  3. Higher rate (40% tax rate): Earnings between £50,271 and £125,140.
  4. Additional rate (45% tax rate): Income exceeding £125,140 

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