John Kenny - The Relationship GuyRelationship Coach, John Kenny Coaching · Therapeutic Coaching

10 June 2024

10 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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John Kenny identifies five red flags of love bombing: resisting any slowdown in the relationship, giving generic praise that fits anyone, showing affection wildly out of proportion to how long you've been together, demanding constant contact or isolating you from friends and family, and cycling between building you up and suddenly tearing you down.

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And here are the next 5 things for you to be aware of if you may assume that there might be a love bomber in your life. So number 6 is they are resistant to any of your attempts to slow things down, so they can get defensive or blaming of you, saying that you've got a problem because you don't want to go with the flow. Number 7, they give you excessive praise or compliments. They feel generic, they don't feel personal, they feel like they could just throw them at anybody. Number 8, their expressions of affection are disproportionate to the stage of your relationship, or they're just over the top. Number 9, they want to be in contact with you or see you all of the time. They want to meet your family and your friends far too early, or on the other hand, they may not want you to spend time with your family and friends and try and isolate you. Number 10, quite a painful one, this one actually, is that they build you up only to knock you back down.