Well we don't know what the bond represents. Isn't it different for everyone?
A person I know has one daughter. She is a single parent.
The daughter had a best friend, both were 9 yrs old at the time.
Between the two best friends, they admired each other's family.
The daughter's best friend said, during a conversation. I love your mom, I can talk to her. She is so much fun.
The daughter said to her best friend, you have such a pretty home. I don't like living in an apartment and I miss my dad.
The two girls descided that they wanted to swap homes for a week. They went to their parents who agreed that it would be fun, something that could managed since it was summertime.
After the halfway mark, the daughter spoke to her best friend. They exchanged experiences. The best friend went on about how much fun she was having with shopping, helping prepare meals, and long discussion with a mother figure, the single mother. Everything was better than she'd thought it would be.
The daughter was polite to her friend and repeated how nice the home was and how the best friend's parents were nice to her.
Then the daughter spoke to her mother the same day. The daughter said to her mother, "mom I want to come home. Everynight we eat dinner together and nobody talks. We don't do anything. I'm so bored"
The mother, single parent, told her daughter that she had to finish the week, two days, since it was an idea she created with the friend. The daughter complied.
Today the daughter is one of the best child psychologists in the US and married to a psychiatrist.
So, she is just fine. However, she learned a good lesson back then.
Sometimes the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence.
AND
Beauty is only skin deep...