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One Thing You Need to Do to Break The Trauma Bond For Good

Are you ready to break it? That’s the biggest question I never asked myself.

Chris Freyler
3 min readAug 16, 2023
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How bad do you want to break it?

Are you so sick and fucking tired of the bullshit determining every aspect of your life? Are you sick of the empty, unbearable feeling of “What next? Who are they talking to now?”

Are you tired of the ruminating thoughts of “what if?” The constant second-guessing, the constant confusion, the constant battle of the mind, questioning if maybe it’s you?

Maybe you are a little too hard on them, and they are telling the truth? Perhaps you just have to “believe them” and lighten up a bit like they say.

Are you still pissed as fuck at them but love and want to help them and don’t understand why?

Do you know in your mind you are trauma bonded without a doubt? That’s the first step is knowing you are.

Can you see yourself utterly indifferent to this person and not wanting the best or worst for them?

Can you finally see them and the relationship for what it was/is and never will be? It was all fake, sprinkled with confusion and the possibility of hope that kept you stuck in a constant mind fuck where you lost reality and…

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Chris Freyler
Chris Freyler

Written by Chris Freyler

Mistake Maker Extraordinaire .Writing from a place I don’t understand at times. I write to help myself, in return hope it helps you. Just another Quora guy.

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