Love Bombing

The intoxicating concept of love fills the minds of millions every second. The forever prize we are manufactured to want. With each love that enters our lives we see another aspect of ourselves leave with them. From our first to our last, we are never the same, constantly adapting and evolving. Seeing each relationship, friendship shape us as humans. From our moral compass, ethical minds and trauma responses. When someone enters our world and promises us the prize of love without a true battle we are caught off-guard and naïve. Love bombing happens when a person enters our circle of singleness and bombs our hearts with unbelievable promises. Love bombing is emotional manipulation. To put it into play, you could find yourself on a first or second date talking about your future children’s names

together. Or what their parents will think of you.

The concept of a future being promised only after a collation of a few hours together. The next decades of your life is being planned out by practically a stranger. Conversations that may happen further down the track of a growing fondness. Love bombing is brutal and blinding. We are unable to comprehend how this would be misleading conversation in the moment. Instead, it’s filling our minds with wounds of hopes and visions. Even though you have just had an IV drip of love fill your veins, they don’t owe you another date. They have the ability to map your next forty years, but potentially won’t even text you back tomorrow. Like a kid in a candy store, people experience these open-ended promises daily. The bomber may have great intentions, these conversations aren’t always fueled with malicious intent, but they are fooling to most. Just know love bombing is a threat to watch in the early days of dating. Be safe and cautious, our minds aren’t always quick to call out an illusion and a fantasy. Calling out the bomber is the best way to avoid the aftermath shrapnel. Wearing a hard hat that reflects bullshit bombing is your way to avoid the deceiving use of love.

Love bombing can work both ways, don't be the victim or the offender.