# 3083: Love Bombing: 10 Signs of Over-the-Top Love by Cindy Lamothe with Healthline on Relationship Red Flags Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimal-relationships-daily-dating-marriage-and-parenting-1054569/3083-love-bombing-10-signs-of-over-the-top-love-by-cindy-lamothe-with-healthline-on-relationship-red-flags Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimal-relationships-daily-dating-marriage-and-parenting-1054569/3083-love-bombing-10-signs-of-over-the-top-love-by-cindy-lamothe-with-healthline-on-relationship-red-flags.md Podcast: [Optimal Relationships Daily - Dating, Marriage and Parenting](https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimal-relationships-daily-dating-marriage-and-parenting-1054569) Published: 2026-07-21T07:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/OLD1010097819.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/OLD1010097819.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/optimal-relationships-daily-dating-marriage-and-parenting-1054569/episodes/3083-love-bombing-10-signs-of-over-the-top-love-by-cindy-lamothe-with-healthline-on-relationship-red-flags Duration seconds: 598 ## Resource Get the 200+ Page Optimal Living Daily Workbook (PDF) — Free. Want to turn today’s episode into an actionable plan? Join the Optimal Living Weekly newsletter and I’ll send you our 200-page digital workbook immediately. It’s packed with the best takeaways from the show, formatted for easy reading and implementation at home. Get your free PDF workbook here: ⁠⁠https://oldpodcast.eo.page/join⁠ Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3083: Cindy Lamothe explains how love bombing can disguise manipulation as intense romance, highlighting the warning signs that can appear early in a relationship. Learn how to recognize unhealthy patterns, trust your intuition, and understand the difference between genuine affection and behavior designed to gain control. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.healthline.com/health/love-bombing Quotes to ponder: "True love does not want all your time and energy focused on them alone. They respect other commitments, ideas, and boundaries." "It’s very unlikely the person really can love you more than anything in the world in 2 weeks. Or two days. Or 2 hours. Or even 2 months." "Hollywood is great for entertainment, but true love and relationships don’t look like the movies." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/optimal-relationships-daily-dating-marriage-and-parenting-1054569/episodes/3083-love-bombing-10-signs-of-over-the-top-love-by-cindy-lamothe-with-healthline-on-relationship-red-flags/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/optimal-relationships-daily-dating-marriage-and-parenting-1054569/3083-love-bombing-10-signs-of-over-the-top-love-by-cindy-lamothe-with-healthline-on-relationship-red-flags.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.