@styledbysurvival: Sometimes the trauma bond isn’t just about who they are now. It’s about the version of them you kept trying to rescue. The wounded child. The unloved part. The person you believed they could become if they finally felt safe enough, loved enough, supported enough. And that’s what makes leaving so painful. Because it doesn’t just feel like walking away from the harm. It feels like abandoning the pain you were trying so hard to heal. But loving someone’s wounds does not mean you are responsible for absorbing the damage they cause. You can have compassion for what broke them… and still choose not to let them break you. #traumabond #narcissisticabuse #coercivecontrol #emotionalabuse #domesticabuseawareness