Common Post-Breakup Behaviors of Covert Narcissists
Covert narcissists use silence, burner accounts, staged vulnerability, and low-effort intrusions to maintain control and reactivate trauma bonds after a breakup.
'Trauma Bonding' Might Not Be Quite What You Think
Trauma bonding describes attachment between victims and abusers but similar bonds also form among people who share traumatic experiences, requiring distinct formal labels.
Emotional closeness is used strategically to create and destabilise attachment, making love a tool for sustaining coercive control and normalising abuse.