Bad Memory #6
I will find the time to elaborate on this more, but I noticed that my ex used to love-bomb me. Love bombing is the act of overwhelming a significant other with excessive adoration. It's usually surprising public displays of affection, cute love notes, flowers delivered to you, and increasingly frequent texts designed to force you to spend more time with them instead of somewhere else. One example of this love-bombing was a playlist he made me. At first, it was sweet and generous; a musical collection that reminded him of me. Soon it escalated into a chore. He wanted me to listen to every 256 songs he’d added (not an exaggeration, there were 256 songs). If I failed to complete this task, he’d make me feel less of a lover and more of an enemy. Hating to be treated this way, I would listen to the playlist more and more often, usually discovering that most of the songs were bad! I found that not only did most of our views differ, but we didn’t even have the same taste in music. Of course, we’d always listen to his favorites anyways, leaving me overwhelmed and unsatisfied with the way he treated me (either too good or too bad).