A person may repeat physically or emotionally painful situations that happened in the past in new situations. Trauma is a universal experience, and it can be defined as the gap between an external threat and one’s inner resources to deal with it. At any time that a person is overwhelmed by fear or hopelessness, they have experienced such an event. Humans tend to seek comfort in what is familiar to them. Sigmund Freud called this repetition compulsion which he defined as ‘the desire to return to an earlier state of things.’ Freud held the view that a person’s inability to discuss or remember past traumatic events might lead them to repeat these traumas compulsively. Repetition compulsion can involve people continuously putting themselves in a situation they know is not healthy, perhaps without even realizing that they are repeating their past traumas. These actions are most apparent in the types of relationships people engage in, particularly dysfunctional ones. Despite knowing that relationships are destructive, we may continue demonstrating patterns of these types of relationships. We may be trying to ‘fix’ what happened in the past by recreating the trauma with new relationships, with some arguing that we have an innate desire to complete something which has already begun. ...