‘It’s where a victim emotionally bonds with their abuser,’ she explained, still writing. ‘It may be as a survival mechanism, so that you feel safer with your captor when you are getting along, for instance, or it may happen if you start to feel sorry for your abuser . . . perhaps he’s been wronged at some point in his life and you want to make it up to him . . . you start to understand him. There are other reasons too: perhaps you are isolated with him; you have to get on, or you suffer tremendous boredom . . . or perhaps he makes you feel special, loved . . .’
