Luis Esteban’s Reviews > Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy > Status Update

“our relationship with siblings or close friends can function as some of the most important attachment bonds that we have. For many a friend or a sibling can serve as a primary attachment figure.”

“the word trauma comes from the Greek word wound”
i wonder if there was a mythologized goddess of siren of trauma in the pantheon

Need books to just @ me next time
“Due to their history of trauma, their sense of self and others have been impaired. When trauma occurs, there is a rupture with the foundational relationship a person has with their self.”

“when we deactivate our attachment system, we suppress our attachment based longing not because we don’t still want closeness and connection, but in order to adapt and survive.”