Chemistry or trauma bond?
The Jessie Williams Podcast
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What Is a Trauma Bond?
A trauma bond is something that occurs when we begin to confuse abuse or abusive toxic behaviour with love and this is often learned throughout childhood. You may seek out or find yourself seeking out relationships, not even consciously, there is no one who consciously decides I'm going to get in a toxic relationship. It actually may be your nervous system becoming dysregulated through retraumatisation of an old wound which was formed in childhood. And what we can sometimes find with these caregivers or with our parents if they are emotionally physically abusive is it's usually we do get the same high for everyone.
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