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Has anyone else experienced a trauma bond?
Breaking Trauma Bonds ^ | Chief_Mod

Posted on 12/09/2022 5:05:02 PM PST by tiredofallofit

Imagine this. You meet a charming man with whom you seem to have an instant connection. This man constantly flatters you, praises you, and makes you feel like you are on top of the world. He gives you gifts, he treats you to fancy meals, and he seems so attentive to all of your needs. You quickly open up to him, sharing with him your deepest desires and dreams. Perhaps you even feel like you are sharing with him secrets about your life that you have not shared with anyone else. You appreciate how he listens and how he seems to reciprocate with sharing his own deepest hopes and emotions. Pretty soon you feel like no else could understand or sympathize with you like he does. You have found your match made in heaven.

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KEYWORDS: depression; lastpostedin2018; mentalillness; narcissism; relationships; sleepertroll
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“I was 26 and had just moved to Akron, Ohio. I had traveled all over Asia and South America the previous two years...”

Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Rio De Jeneiro........Akron.


21 posted on 12/09/2022 5:32:38 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I’m double dog glad I’m married to Mr. GG2. The gold stand for reliable and trustworthy. 😊


22 posted on 12/09/2022 5:33:24 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: tiredofallofit

This always worked for me. Chicks are so gullible. 🤣


23 posted on 12/09/2022 5:36:07 PM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Watch Dateline, Dead by Morning etc to see how bad women judge men.


24 posted on 12/09/2022 5:37:28 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: ClearCase_guy
Of course, a lot of men can’t spot the good women either.

I can. The good woman is the one I would hit it with.

25 posted on 12/09/2022 5:37:44 PM PST by Lazamataz (The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
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To: tiredofallofit

As he lights his cigarette, he says his name is “Bond . . .” He closes his lighter, “Trauma Bond.”


26 posted on 12/09/2022 5:38:11 PM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: tiredofallofit

Required reading for all women:

“Men Who Can’t Love”

https://www.amazon.com/Men-Who-Cant-Love-Commitmentphobic/dp/0871319993/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KSSGN8RLIFNE&keywords=men+who+can%27t+love&qid=1670636250&s=books&sprefix=Men+who+can%27t+%2Cstripbooks%2C102&sr=1-1


27 posted on 12/09/2022 5:38:40 PM PST by Baldwin77 (Super, Duper, Ultra Maga, subject of the Ultra Maga King Donald)
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To: tiredofallofit

My wife and I met at our 25th high school reunion. I’d just been dumped by my wife of 20 years. Turns out she had also just been dumped by her husband. But we were in Seattle and she lived in South Dakota.

I was smitten and she came back to see me after I wrote her a heartfelt letter (she would not give me her number), and we had shared 850 emails (printouts of all of them are still in a box) and $3,500 in long distance calls. When she returned I experienced a relationship I thought was only the stuff of fairy tales. I proposed before she returned to SD. I was constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop. It never did. That was 25 years ago and I’m still living with the love of my life, and it only grows stronger.


28 posted on 12/09/2022 5:41:17 PM PST by cuban leaf (My prediction: Harris is Spiro Agnew. We'll soon see who becomes Gerald Ford, and our next prez.)
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To: tiredofallofit

Whenever something deems too good to be true, it usually is.

Men tend to think with their hormones/anatomy, and women with their emotions.

Both are deadly to a relationship.


29 posted on 12/09/2022 5:46:15 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: tiredofallofit

A trauma Bond? Yeah I probably have. I’ve always been a good judge of bad women... and I don’t know why that is, because I grew up with sisters.


30 posted on 12/09/2022 5:49:19 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: cuban leaf

sweet!


31 posted on 12/09/2022 5:51:06 PM PST by spacejunkie2001
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To: Bonemaker

You just about nailed it! Tokyo, Beijing, Shuifu (China, Yunnan Province), Phillipines (Nonoc Island), Guam, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador, Switzerland, Sardinia.

Akron for 7 months, then back to California for 40 years!


32 posted on 12/09/2022 6:00:21 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: ALASKA

33 posted on 12/09/2022 6:00:34 PM PST by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: tiredofallofit

“You meet a charming man with whom you seem to have an instant connection.”

NO!! XD


34 posted on 12/09/2022 6:04:40 PM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: tiredofallofit

“This man constantly flatters you, praises you, and makes you feel like you are on top of the world. He gives you gifts, he treats you to fancy meals, and he seems so attentive to all of your needs.”

He’s simping! Tell him to get lost, then go buy a pistol.


35 posted on 12/09/2022 6:06:05 PM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: Jyotishi

XD... this thread is killing it.


36 posted on 12/09/2022 6:10:39 PM PST by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: RummyChick

Old, balding, ginger, beady eyed Prince Harry is in for a rude awakening when Me Again runs off screaming with the odd looking kids, into Oprah’s understanding arms, humping her tell all book about racissss Harry who gave her beat downs and was a systemic colonialist racisssssssss. And, I’d be super duper worried if I was that Joker looking gf of Bezos...


37 posted on 12/09/2022 6:12:49 PM PST by Pigsley (I)
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To: cuban leaf

That is soooooooo wonderful. Sometimes true love comes a bit later.


38 posted on 12/09/2022 6:14:25 PM PST by Pigsley (I)
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To: tiredofallofit

Trust bombing, dependency, criticism, gaslighting?

Heck, sounds like the anatomy of a first date.


39 posted on 12/09/2022 6:18:44 PM PST by glorgau
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To: tiredofallofit

Some folks are just gullible as hell.


40 posted on 12/09/2022 6:23:08 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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