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  2. What Is Love Bombing? Meaning, Warning Signs and How to Deal

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    Licensed therapist Susan Zinn told TODAY that love bombing is a common practice for narcissists and sociopaths, which explains why it's a popular tactic among cult leaders like Charles Manson and ...

  3. Love bombing - Wikipedia

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    Love bombing is an attempt to influence a person by demonstrations of attention and affection. It can be used in different ways and for either positive or negative purposes. [ 1 ] Psychologists have identified love bombing as a possible part of a cycle of abuse and have warned against it.

  4. Are You Being Love-Bombed? Experts Explain the Signs - AOL

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    Love bombing might make a relationship feel amazing at the beginning, but the reality is that it’s often used as a form of manipulation and can lead to a toxic relationship. Ahead, experts ...

  5. Controlling behavior in relationships - Wikipedia

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    Manipulators and abusers may control their victims with a range of tactics, including, but not limited to, positive reinforcement (such as praise, superficial charm, flattery, ingratiation, love bombing), negative reinforcement (taking away aversive tasks or items), intermittent or partial reinforcement, psychological punishment (such as silent treatment, threats, emotional blackmail, guilt ...

  6. How To Tell The Difference Between Love Bombing And The ... - AOL

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    Love bombing is when a partner overwhelms or bombards someone with a series of highly romantic gestures and words, making it seem as if the flood of feelings they have for you signifies a life ...

  7. Mind games - Wikipedia

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    In intimate relationships, mind games can be used to undermine one partner's belief in the validity of their own perceptions. [5] Personal experience may be denied and driven from memory, [6] and such abusive mind games may extend to the denial of the victim's reality, social undermining, and downplaying the importance of the other partner's concerns or perceptions. [7]

  8. Emotional blackmail - Wikipedia

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    Knowing that someone close to them wants love, approval or confirmation of identity and self-esteem, blackmailers may threaten to withhold them (e.g., withhold love) or take them away altogether, making the second person feel they must earn them by agreement. [6] Fear, obligation or guilt is commonly referred to as "FOG".

  9. What is Love Bombing? 11 Ways to Spot this Relationship ... - AOL

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    What is love bombing? What Cody did to Corinna is a classic example of “love bombing,” says Ramani Durvasula, a licensed clinical psychologist, professor of psychology at California State ...