Relationships are all around us, whether our friends we connect with to vent, our family we see on holidays, someone we’re dating, or the people we work with. While relationships can take on many forms, there are relationships that can be more difficult, such as abusive relationships or emotional attachments we’ve created through trauma...
Trauma Bond vs. Love: Everything You Need to Know
Trauma Bond Withdrawal Symptoms
If you have experienced an abusive relationship and felt an attachment toward your abuser, you may have endured a trauma bond. While this is not your fault, and it may feel like you’ve broken the bond and are moving forward, you could be feeling withdrawal symptoms from the relationship. After a bond so rooted in...
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12Feb 2026Alyssa Biestek
Trauma Bond vs. Love: Everything You Need to Know
Relationships are all around us, whether our friends we connect with to vent, our family we see on holidays, someone we’re dating, or the people we work with. While relationships can take on many forms, there are relationships that can be more difficult, such as abusive relationships or emotional attachments we’ve created through trauma […]
26Nov 2025Rychel Johnson, LCPC
Trauma Bond Withdrawal Symptoms
If you have experienced an abusive relationship and felt an attachment toward your abuser, you may have endured a trauma bond. While this is not your fault, and it may feel like you’ve broken the bond and are moving forward, you could be feeling withdrawal symptoms from the relationship. After a bond so rooted in […]
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12Feb 2026Alyssa Biestek
Trauma Bond vs. Love: Everything You Need to Know
Relationships are all around us, whether our friends we connect with to vent, our family we see on holidays, someone we’re dating, or the people we work with. While relationships can take on many forms, there are relationships that can be more difficult, such as abusive relationships or emotional attachments we’ve created through trauma […]
24Nov 2025Zack Ehrmann MAEd, LMHC, LPC
Hypervigilance from Emotional Abuse: What You Need To Know
There are many pervasive and pernicious harms suffered by those affected by emotional abuse, which is a form of relational abuse that includes all of the non-physical behaviors intended to minimize your sense of self and autonomy. Hypervigilance, or a state of increased alertness accompanied by behavior that aims to prevent potential danger, is an […]
19Sep 2025Elizabeth McDade
Enmeshment Trauma: When Love Becomes Suffocating
According to family systems theory, relationships between parents and children are naturally interconnected and influence one another. In order to support the well-being and healthy development of young children, the family system needs healthy psychological boundaries between family members. These boundaries help family members distinguish themselves from each other. Healthy boundaries also evolve as children […]
30Aug 2025Rychel Johnson, LCPC
Is Constantly Apologizing a Trauma Response from Emotional Abuse?
In an emotionally abusive relationship, over-apologizing is recognized as a response created over time to reduce or prevent the abusive partner from causing further harm. Outside of the context of the relationship, the emotional abuse victim will often continue to be overly apologetic even in situations that do not warrant apologies, which significantly impacts a […]
09Aug 2025Alyssa Biestek
My Husband Hit Me. What Do I Do?
Being hurt physically by a partner or spouse is frightening, confusing, and hurtful. Unfortunately, abusive marriages and relationships are more common than they should be. The National Domestic Violence Hotline website shares that around 24 individuals per minute are victims of some sort of physical violence or physical abuse by someone they are in a […]
