Looking for love sounds more like chasing the high of an extreme sport, trust falling with someone you don’t really know like that. It demands exacting reciprocity, extreme vulnerability. It brings out people’s basest and most primal instincts and a frightening desire to merge into someone else. When the girlies on TikTok talk about dating, they ra... See more

“She said all the right things. I read online they call it trauma bonding. I went through all the seven stages. First, she totally love-bombed me. She made me feel important, listened to, even loved. Then, she built the trust between us and made me more dependent on her. That honeymoon didn’t last long before the next stage of criticism and devalua

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