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by laserlight 978 days ago
Stockholm syndrome is a thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_syndrome

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To be clear, it actually isn't a recognized psychological phenomenon as you can see at your own link. It was invented by a police psychiatrist who did a bad job being a hostage negotiator and came up with it to explain why the hostages were mad at him.