Love Bombing and Grooming: In Crosshairs of Narcissists, Sadists, Psychopaths
Channel: Prof. Sam Vaknin
Date: 2020-05-26

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Love bombing has four functions:

1. To signal the intensity and persistence of the interlocutor's or correspondent's ostensible emotions and to chart and document the growing, all-pervasive attachment

2. Virtue signaling: to convey the purity and authenticity as well as the good intentions of the love bomber

3. Gaslighting: to engender, foster, and impose on the target an immersive virtual reality bubble within which a cult-like shared fantasy or shared psychosis is established and takes hold.

4. To induce the target to enter the hall of mirrors where she is idealized and becomes infatuated with her rendition, an addictive experience which results in operant conditioning. It grants the love bomber with the power to withhold access to his contraption as a way to modify the target's behaviors (intermittent reinforcement). 

The grooming or love bombing of a sexual sadist differs to that of the narcissist or psychopath. It is intended to achieve 6 goals: 

1. Establish mastery, a power hierarchy, and an external locus of control 

2. Mold the woman into a mindless and obedient whore 

3. Overcome the woman's natural revulsion and anxiety by habituating her and coopting or hijacking her fantasy life 

4. Expose the woman to brainwashing messaging and signaling 

5. Push the woman to dismantle her boundaries, abrogate her values and morals, and violate her own rules of conduct 

6. Isolate the woman from her family and social network.