💐 “He brought me flowers… so it couldn’t be abuse, right?”
Wrong. That’s exactly how intermittent reinforcement works.
One sweet gesture after days of emotional chaos can trick your brain into rewriting the whole story.

You start focusing on that one good moment—clinging to it—because the rest is too painful to process. And before you know it, you're stuck in a cycle that feels impossible to escape.

This is how people get trapped.
This is why it’s so hard to leave.
And this is why your pain is valid, even if they were “nice” yesterday.