Childhood Emotional Abuse and Adult Relationships: How Belonging Shapes Relationship Satisfaction (opens in new tab)

Psychology, like fashion, has seasons. There was the era when everything was repression. Then codependency. Then trauma. Now attachment. We have reached a point where forgetting to unload the dishwasher can sound suspiciously like an abandonment wound. This may be progress. It may also be inflation. Which is partly why this new study interested me. It proposes something almost unfashionably simple: childhood psychological abuse may erode not only later trust, but a person’s sense of belonging...