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EP 32: Love Bombing or Just Intense? Why We Need to Stop Diagnosing Every Strong Connection
Someone texts you every morning, wants to see you constantly, brings flowers, gives compliments, and seems completely taken with you.
Today, we’re quick to call it love bombing. But is it?
Love bombing and emotional manipulation are real—but intensity can also come from anxious attachment, insecurity, loneliness, fear of abandonment, borderline traits, poor relationship pacing, or simply genuine excitement.
In this episode of Breaking Cycles with Maria, Maria Shkreli, LMHC looks beyond the label and asks a more important question: What happens when you slow things down, set a boundary, say…
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