On the subject of love bombing, short story time
Met a girl during my AFC years, pre sosuave, pre everything, complete beta, no success with women. She was solid 7/10 which was way above anything i was used to, suffered from some depression but hey ho i thought. She persued me relentlessly, to be honest she had to because i was SO afc that she had to make the first moves because i was petrified of rejection and just froze up.
Anyway she love bombed me, non stop texting, wanting to see me and go on dates almost every day, calling me as soon as she got off work and wanting to talk on the phone if we weren't together, talking about our future together and how i was the one and she'd never felt anything like this and had never been this happy, it was intense and i was off down the rabbit hole.
Anyway anyone with the knowledge knows damn well what happens next, as soon as she'd built me up and i'd begun to get used to basing my whole life around her, BOOM, gone. and after barely hearing from her for two weeks she popped up to tell me she had a new boyfriend and proceeded to assasinate my self-esteem by listing all my faults and why i had failed her and we couldn't be together.
Oh yeah she also tried to friend zone me and said maybe we can try again if it doesn't work out with her new guy. (for those keeping record it lasted 6 months with him, and after he'd emptied his bank account she moved on again and he ended up becoming a heroin addict to cope)
Then i learned about bpd, made my way here, survived my 6 months of chronic depression and built myself into a new man.
If you have tangled with one of these monsters and lived to tell the tale it will stand you in good stead, but if you haven't, learn the red flags because if you can avoid it you should, it can get really, really messy.