bound up in
• focusing on to the exclusion of all else.
• "she was too bound up in her own misery to care that other people were hurt"
bound up with
• closely connected with or related to.
• "democracy is bound up with a measure of economic and social equality"
Similar:
connected with,
linked with,
tied up with,
united with,
allied to,
attached to,
dependent on,
reliant on,
