@mightyyyymouse: If I were a narcissist getting you trauma bonded, here are the 7 stages I’d put you through. 4 is where I’d have you. I wouldn’t trap you by accident. I’d do it in order. 7 stages, every one of them planned, and you wouldn’t see what I was doing until you were already too deep to walk out. Here’s exactly how I’d do it: 1️⃣ Love bombing. I’d give you the attention, the gifts, the “I’ve never felt this with anyone.” I’d make you feel chosen. You’d never guess it was the setup. 2️⃣ Trust and dependency. I’d get you to lean on me. Then I’d make the other people in your life feel further and further away, until I was the main one left. 3️⃣ Criticism. I’d let the mask slip. Small digs. Suddenly the things you do are wrong. You’d start adjusting yourself just to keep me calm. 4️⃣ Gaslighting. You’d bring up how I hurt you, and I’d rewrite what happened. I’d make you the problem. The sensitive one. The one who “always does this.” This is where I’d have you. This is where most of you are right now. 5️⃣ Resignation. You’d stop fighting back. Going quiet would feel easier than losing again. You’d tell yourself it’s fine when it isn’t. 6️⃣ Loss of self. You wouldn’t remember what you liked, who you were, what you wanted. The person you were before me would feel like a stranger 7️⃣ Emotional addiction. I’d hurt you, then apologize, then give you relief. Over and over until your brain got hooked on the cycle. That’s the part that keeps you here even when you know you should go. If you read stage 4 and your stomach dropped because you knew that was you, that reaction is the answer. That’s not weakness. That’s a trauma bond doing exactly what it was built to do. Save this so you can come back to it on the day you start doubting your own memory again. Send it to 3 people you know are stuck somewhere in these 7 stages and don’t have the words for it yet. If you are done feeling Message me FREEDOM if you’ve known something was wrong for months and just watched it get named, in order, stage by stage. #Love #viral #traumabond #narcissist #narcissism

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