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

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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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CHAPTERS
00:00 Intro
00:53 What is love bombing?
03:03 Being infatuated with your partner isn't automatically love bombing
03:27 Factor
04:27 Love bombers on screen & why they're *not* romantic
04:52 Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass
07:08 You's Joe Goldberg
09:46 How I Met Your Mother's Ted Mosby
12:57 So why is love bombing everywhere on screen???
13:57 The bad lessons love bombers can teach us (& how things are changing)

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This video was produces by Jessica Babineaux, written by Abigail Barr, narrated by Kayah Jardine, and edited by Daniel Wolff

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