What is Relationship Trauma?

What is Relational Trauma

Relational or Relationship trauma often forms quietly, inside relationships that once felt important or loving. It develops when closeness becomes unpredictable, emotionally unsafe, or slowly erodes your sense of self.

Many people only recognise relationship trauma after the relationship has ended, when anxiety, numbness, self doubt, or fear of closeness begins to surface.

This is not weakness.
It is a nervous system shaped by survival.

Inside the full article, I explore how relationship trauma develops, how it lives in the body, and what real healing involves beyond simply understanding what went wrong.