Healing Trust After Betrayal: How the Attachment Injury Repair Model (AIRM) Helps Couples Reconnect
What Is an Attachment Injury? When trust is broken in a relationship, the emotional wound can feel overwhelming. Research from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) describes these moments as attachment injuries . These injuries happen when one partner desperately needs emotional support, and the other is unavailable, dismissive, unfaithful, or even hurtful. Common attachment injuries include: Infidelity or emotional affairs Significant lies or hidden behaviors A betrayal of vuln
