While we are subject to abuse, we sometimes cause pain to others too. We are recruited as Flying Monkeys, and are tricked into doing the abuser’s dirty work
In my experience it has been far harder to deal with the Flying Monkey, than with the actual abuser(s). I felt far more confused, hurt and unbalanced after encounters, than I did for example in the aftermath of no contact.
So what is a Flying Monkey? I always think of them as a toxic person’s remote controls. They are the people that enable, perpetuate and justify the abuse.
Most of us know the term Stockholm Syndrome from TV shows. We associate it with the kidnap and abuse of children. It also influences adult victims of abuse.