The Love Bomber Trope: Rom-Com Dream to Total Nightmare

08/02/2024 15 min
The Love Bomber Trope: Rom-Com Dream to Total Nightmare

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Episode Synopsis

Love bombing has been a huge topic of conversation in recent years, and if we take a closer look, we might start to notice that the TV and movie characters who we thought were so lovable and charming are actually doing this too – from self-identified “nice guys” like How I Met Your Mother’s Ted Mosby to full on bad guys like Chuck Bass from Gossip Girl and Joe Goldberg from You. But what is love bombing, what are the signs, how does it tie into narcissism, and why is this trope in so many TV shows and movies?

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