Eli5: What are trauma bonds?

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Eli5: What are trauma bonds?

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Trauma bonding is when people who have gone through trauma together feel closer to each other than they would otherwise. Maybe they normally wouldn’t get along, but because they’ve had some of the same experiences, they feel like they care about each other anyway.

Sometimes this is because they don’t think anyone else can understand. Sometimes it’s because they don’t have to explain it for the other person to understand. This is commonly seen in children with abusive parents, people who were together during a disaster, and combat veterans.

It’s also sometimes intentionally caused by abusers so their victims feel close to them, even though they’re the reason they were traumatized.