Stockholm syndrome
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the situation when a person who has been taken prisoner starts to like or trust the person or people who have taken them:
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[Stockholm syndrome] is when you are [kidnapped] and are able to befriend/fall in love with your [kidnapper].
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In 1973 a group of Swedes [held hostage] in a vault during a [bank robbery] for six days grew attached to their captors.
1-to develop or have compassion or sympathy for ones abductor
2-to grow attached to or grow to like a person, place, or [thing one] was forced to put up with
Today it is used as psychological term to analyze mental patients who have been abused,tortured,kidnapped,etc. and many other situations -
When a person has been in [IKEA] [so long] the [items] there actually start to look good.
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When the [vast majority] of the items in a home are [furnished] by [Ikea].
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