“the abused have a tendency to gravitate to their abuser rather than away.”
Can you tell us why?
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probably the person i responded to would have a clinical explanation.
from a layperson perspective, it’s about perfection: “I’ll get it (or be) perfect this time”.
it’s about pleasing the abuser. Not sure why.
Seems to me it happens more often than “flight”.