What Is Love Bombing?
Susan Forward, author of the wonderful book Emotional Blackmail, talks about the “blinding FOG”—Fear, Obligation, and Guilt that characterizes most “toxic tie” relationships. Unbridled fears that we are unworthy, that we will never truly be loved, or that we will be abandoned by someone we desperately need, top the list of anxieties that can entice
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To avoid these types of abusive behaviours, bit by bit you might give up on expressing yourself. You stop having opinions, dressing the way you want to, trying to achieve your personal goals, or feeling as though you matter. There isn’t any kind of mutual presence in the relationship.
Emma Rose Byham • Was It Even Abuse?: Restoring clarity after covert abuse.
Romantic love (which has been called temporary insanity) is a narcissistic state where we can become focused on our relationship and ourselves to the exclusion of everything and everyone.
Rokelle Lerner • The Object of My Affection Is in My Reflection: Coping with Narcissists
Do you avoid people? Do you give too much? Do you build walls against intimacy?