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Why We Fall for People Who Recreate Our Childhood Trauma (Abandon Me Memoir)
We've all been there: drawn to someone who feels dangerously familiar, even if that familiarity is painful. In this deep dive into Melissa Febos's raw memoir 'Abandon Me,' we unpack the psychology of why we repeat our deepest wounds in adult relationships. Febos, a writer who survived heroin addiction, sex work, and a love affair that nearly destroyed her, reveals the brutal truth about attachment: we don't just fear abandonment—we seek it out. This video breaks down the science of trauma bonding, the power of names and tattoos as survival tools, and the counterintuitive path to healing: not by avoiding pain, but by making it visible. If you've ever wondered why you keep ending up in the same toxic patterns, this is the explanation you didn't know you needed.
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