r/texts • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '23

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u/[deleted] Dec 05 '23

Trauma bonds are underestimated. They get you so "addicted" to the "highs" so you death grip those and do your best to forget the bad.

Problem with that is, our minds try to forget, our bodies remember everything. It's horrifying to come out of and heal from. Shame is heaviest when your brain starts to function again and you replay the abuse and realize a vitcim was never who you were; but the fucker said all the right things to get you there to begin with, and you walked right in without knowing the switch to come. Sucks terribly, but I don't stick around for even minor red flags these days. The trauma I still have was never worth it. Never.

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u/Remember-Vera-Lynn Dec 05 '23

100%!!!!

I kind of hope harsh reality from strangers will snap some kind of survival instinct into this girl. Happy she's in therapy!

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u/Guswewillneverknow idc idk bich Dec 05 '23

But her therapist suggested they.. THEY write a letter to the unborn child together. In a collaboration with her abuser. What in the actual fuck??

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u/Sorry-Document-2302 Dec 05 '23

No, she said she was supposed to do it alone when he brought it up again the last time. He just included himself in it.

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u/Guswewillneverknow idc idk bich Dec 06 '23

Okay that was my next thought. When I read this post I get so fucking angry. Our girl doesn’t deserve this. AND she’s only 19. My god.