Inside Dopamine

When someone is intermittently available — warm one day, cold the next — your brain can start chasing the unpredictable reward. It resembles the variable-reward pattern that makes slot machines so hard to stop.

Healthy love feels like warm water. Trauma bonding feels like a rollercoaster you can't get off. If you're constantly analyzing whether they like you, if their affection comes and goes without pattern, you're not in love — you're in a dopamine trap.