Trauma Bonding Example 1 of 3: Fixating on only the "Good Times" Does this sound familiar? The cycle of love-bombing, abuse, fake apologies, and gifts—designed to make you believe that everything is going back to the way it once was. You want to believe it, to feel that love again, but here’s the hard truth: what you had in the beginning wasn’t real. Trauma bonding keeps you trapped in a cycle where you’re constantly hoping for the good times to return. But they won’t, because it was never true