🔥 Loyal to Your Abusers: When defending your abuser feels like love
Related Childhood Experiences
People with this dating style often experienced these childhood situations:
Abusive parentBullying at homeChronic manipulationCritical parentEmotional abuseGaslightingIncestInvalidating parentManipulative parentMolestationMother’s death in childbirthNagging parentPunishing parentRejecting parents or familyScolding, verbal abuse, put-downs in the familySexual abuseSexual violenceShame-based parentingToxic parentToxic parenting
Related Dating Styles
Other patterns that often appear alongside Loyal to Your Abusers:
💃🏻Acting Out for Love
When Having Full Attention Is The Only Way to Be Loved
parental attention traumacrisis bondingattention fights
🧮Always Doing The Math
💪Braced for Independence
🌊Come Here, Go Away
When love feels real only when it hurts
ambivalent attachment traumapush-pullemotional intensity
✋Guarding Against Heartbreak
🦶Keeping One Foot Out the Door
💓Loving and Hating Intensely
🔥❄️No Playbook for Dating
When Unpredictability Feels Like Home
disorganized attachment traumahot-cold lovemake-up sex addiction
💃🕺Same Dance, Different Partners
When chasing unavailable love feels like home
conditional love traumaabandonment triggersemotional whiplash
💫Whiplashed in Relationships
🧠Wired for Crisis