Bad habits
Love Bombing and Trauma Bonding . Content Warning.
The term "love bombing" describes a manipulation tactic where someone overwhelms a new romantic partner with excessive attention, affection, gifts, and declarations of intense feeling designed to create dependency and bypass normal relationship boundaries that would develop gradually in healthy connections, and while it feels incredibly romantic and like you have finally found someone who truly sees and values you in ways no one else ever has, love bombing is actually a calculated strategy used by narcissists, sociopaths, and abusive partners to create emotional addiction before showing their true colors, and understanding this pattern can help people recognize red flags early enough to escape before becoming trapped in a cycle of abuse that becomes increasingly difficult to leave as psychological chains tighten around you without your conscious awareness. The experience of being love bombed is intoxicating and overwhelming in the best possible way initially, with your new partner texting you constantly, wanting to spend every possible moment together, telling you within weeks or even days that you are their soulmate, that they have never felt this way about anyone, that you are perfect and everything they have been searching for their entire life, and this intensity creates a euphoric state where you feel special and chosen and like you have won some cosmic lottery by finding this person who adores you so completely.
By The Curious Writer9 days ago in Confessions
Taught him how to fish and he stole my pond. AI-Generated.
You never really expect the knife to come from someone sitting right next to you. I sit here today wrestling with a messy mix of anger, deep disappointment, and plain foolishness. I trusted my own family, and that trust cost me dearly.
By Jesse13 days ago in Confessions
Why I Stopped Serving the One-Sided Friends. AI-Generated.
Your phone buzzes on the table. You see a familiar name light up the screen. For a split second, you feel a spark of joy. An old friend is checking in to see how you are doing. But then you read the message. They do not want to know about your life. They need a ride to the airport. They need help moving a heavy couch. They need free advice for a problem they caused.
By Jesse13 days ago in Confessions
maybe we get married one day, but who knows?
Sometimes I think about you the way I think about distant cities I’ve never been to. The way I think about Birmingham, or London, or Switzerland — places that exist somewhere far away in the world yet somehow live quietly inside my imagination. Places I’ve never walked through, never breathed the air of, never watched the sunset over. And still, they carry a strange pull inside me. A kind of longing that feels both foolish and inevitable, like a quiet ache you can’t quite explain.
By imtiazalam13 days ago in Confessions
Follow You Follow Me
Introduction I was out walking, which often inspires me to write things and the Genesis song “Follow You Follow Me” popped into my head. It was their first album as a trio, Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett having walked, but I still bought it on the basis of “Follow You Follow Me” and the opening song “Down and Out” but I was hugely disappointed. The rest of the album was just boring, but those two songs showed that there was a spark still there and the rest of their musical career did throw up some surprisingly good songs. As usual, I have digressed and gone off track so now down to the business of what I was going to talk about.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 15 days ago in Confessions
Word of the Day: 走り
I actually sort of don't know what I am doing with food right now. I need to finish cleaning my fridge and I am just so tired. I also have food I need to eat before it spoils but because I have been in a calorie deficit for a while it feels too much even though it isn't.
By Kayla McIntosh15 days ago in Confessions
Word of the Day: 火病
It is kind of funny, because I was going on about having fire sickness myself without realizing this was an actual thing. It actually sounds accurate to what I was experiencing, but luckily I don't live in a culture/area that is overtly suppressive to where it would aggravate this sort of condition.
By Kayla McIntosh16 days ago in Confessions
Word of the Day: 付け合わせ
I woke up too late for my appointment. I didn't set a timer but, I also didn't remember that it was at freaking 8 am. I made a video for Youtube explaining my 180 degree change of mood. I really think it was just that it was my mom's birthday sort of mentally dragging me down. Since it was my birthday time when I decided not to talk to her anymore. It has been a month then... It doesn't feel like it has been a month. Well a month and 10 days.
By Kayla McIntosh16 days ago in Confessions
