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April 11, 2017

Love Bombing is a Red Flag

Love bombing is, in and of itself, a Red Flag. Emotionally healthy adults don’t love bomb one another at the beginning of a relationship. There may be intense attraction or infatuation, but that’s different from love bombing. Love bombing is a term borrowed from the recruiting techniques of cults. The narcissist, borderline, histrionic or psychopath […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Child Abuse, Dating, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Financial Abuse, Healthy Relationships, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic abuse, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Relationship Advice, Relationships, Unhealthy Relationships Tagged With: borderline personality disorder, dating, devaluation, discard, domestic violence, Dr Tara J. Palmatier, histrionic personality disorder, love bombing, narcissistic abuse, narcissistic personality disorder, narcissistic relationship stages, psychopath, relationship advice, seduction

April 9, 2017

How to Love a Woman Who Has Been to Hell and Back: Run Away! Far, Far Away!

Recently, a Shrink4Men Forum member shared an article link that had been making the rounds on social media. Ordinarily, I make fun of the use of Trigger Warnings. That being said, I feel obligated to issue both a Trigger Warning and a Ridiculous Nonsense Warning as many of my readers, both men and women, are […]

Filed Under: Abuse, Abusive relationships, Borderline Personality Disorder, Domestic Violence, Healing, Healthy Relationships, High-Conflict, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Psychological Abuse Tagged With: abuse, borderline personality disorder, devaluation, domestic violence, false allegations, histrionic personality disorder, How to Love a Woman Who Has Been to Hell and Back, Kathy Parker, narcissistic abuse, narcissistic personality disorder, psychopaths, sociopaths

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