What people do in abusive relationship dynamics is they start to create opposition with you and the people you love.

Because the people who love you can see these types of behaviors. So the way that the narcissistic abuser protects from that is they start to section you off, cut you off.

You might be receiving this podcast because someone has listened to this who cares about you and has witnessed you get this distance between you and them, that the people you love, your friends, that you don't spend time with anymore. And inevitably, it's because perhaps the person you're dating has said, oh, I don't like their values or they're not a good influence on you. And maybe just in receiving this podcast episode, there's an

opportunity to just reflect. Do they have bad intentions? Are their values? Have I been

corralled off from the people I love? Is there a part within my own body that feels like I'm not

happy that I've been manipulated, that I don't feel grounded? Hello and welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast.

Today I'm coming at you with a solo episode on a very much requested subject, and that is love bombing.

So if you have been love bombed, you know someone who's getting love bomb right now, you need to share this episode, you need to listen to this.

I'm going to walk you through. What is it? What are the signs

you're experiencing it? Why do people do it? What makes us susceptible to it? So first off,

what is love bombing? If you haven't watched the Tinder Swindler, worth watching because it shows you

this rapid escalation that occurs at the beginning of a relationship where like the first week

is like a year already.

You're like, I love you. You're the person. Like, I can't believe I've never met someone like you.

You're my person. You're my soulmate. We use this big language that really just hooks into the fantasy,

into the like finally someone who loves at the same intensity I do. Oh, my God. And also my

voice, I did some emotional release exercises the last couple of days. And here we go. But oh my God,

right? Like, I love users being dropped right away, L bombing, right? So it's called love bombing,

but the L bomb itself, I love you,

gets dropped like Matt, you know? And there's a rapid escalation, a deepening of the relationship

that's very quick, that there's promises of the future, there's discussions of the future,

there's all these things and it just matches so perfectly with the dream that we've had.

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