Trauma Bonding Neuroscience After Infidelity | MindLAB
Trauma Bonding After Infidelity: The Neuroscience of Why You Can’t Leave Trauma bonding is neurological dependence. When infidelity creates an intermittent reinforcement schedule of breach and reconciliation, the brain’s dopamine prediction-error system floods the nucleus accumbens with signals stronger than predictable reward produces. Cortisol-oxytocin cycling mimics opioid withdrawal-relief, and the circuit holds you in place. ...
