How to Recover from Love-Bombing and Stonewalling

There’s this behavior that’s common in my family. When a member is mad at me, they withhold love and affection. I don’t know when I first noticed it, but it feels like the soundtrack of my life. One wrong move, a record scratch, and silence. Unfortunately, attachment issues in childhood don’t just clear up when we grow into adults. We carry them with us into adult relationships. Despite being a former therapist, I’m not immune to these issues at all. My early experience of withheld affection has made me particularly susceptible to two particularly toxic relationship behaviors: love-bombing and stonewalling. There’s an art to ruining relationships. Often, practitioners of these arts engage in behaviors that pop culture has bestowed names upon — names such as love-bombing, ghosting, bread crumbing, stonewalling, and many more. While they have a storybook essence, these dating tendencies don’t lead to a fairy tale ending. Rather, they chip away at the relationship until there’s little hope of saving them. <a href="https://medium.com/better-humans/how-to-recover-from-love-bombing-and-stonewalling-c3a715b13616">Read More</a>