In this breakdown, therapist Trey Tucker unpacks how Cate Dunlap's attachment style and trauma responses explain everything about her fall from protector to villain in Amazon Prime's Gen V - and how those same patterns show up in your life.

You’ll learn:

- How fearful-avoidant attachment makes love feel dangerous

- The difference between protecting and possessing the people we love

- How guilt and moral injury feed people-pleasing and manipulation

By diagnosing Cate, we uncover how trauma shapes our own attachment style—and how to start healing the need to control what we fear losing.

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