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Am I Being Love Bombed? Are You?

Since the beginning of the year, <em>love bombing</em> has been everywhere. What makes the term so appealing?
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The actor Julia Fox met Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, on New Year’s Eve in Miami, and by the following week she was on the phone with Interview, providing behind-the-scenes commentary on all of the photos of them wearing dramatic outfits, going on expensive outings, and kissing on the floor.

The first flashy celebrity romance of 2022 was glamorous to some and unsettling to others. I thought it was fun until it got to the part where the girl’s friends were all , holding the designer handbags the guy had given out at her birthday dinner—that kind of thing would make me feel pretty sad and scared, were it happening to me. But I wasn’t one of the people who the excessive gifts and ludicrous as , a term with a muddy history in pop psychology. Based on how the word is used on social media, it refers to the act of going over the top in a romantic context, for purposes that

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