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And now here's your host, Christine Hammond.

Today we're going to talk about the love bomb entrapment of narcissism.

And I want you to think of love bombing as a technique that narcissists do

in order to entrap or ensnare another person. Now, this other person doesn't necessarily have to be a mate.

It could be a person that they're dating. It could be a friend. It could be somebody at work. It could even be a

family member. So I want you to keep your mind open as I go through this story just so that you can

start to understand what love bombing is and how a person becomes entrapped by it.

So let's do the story of Katrina, who is looking at how her friend was treating her husband

at dinner, not Katrina's husband, but her friend's husband at dinner.

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