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A soap opera surrogate-birth fallout is a perfect real-world stress test for trust repair theory — can broken attachment bonds ever fully heal?
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Theory Briefing
- Devon questions trusting Mariah again after her emotional attachment to baby Dominic, mirroring broken trust frameworks in close relationships.
- Tessa must decide whether to forgive Mariah for leaving, putting attachment theory's secure-base concept under dramatic strain.
- The storyline captures how trauma and displacement — Mariah's surrogacy experience — can fracture multiple trust bonds simultaneously.