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🎯 Toxic Pattern Alert: Baiting, Guilt-Tripping, & Love Bombing

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🛑 Recognize it.


🚫 Refuse it.


🙌 Rise above it.



Toxic people often cycle through baiting, guilting, and love bombing to control, confuse, and break down their victims. This pattern is meant to draw you into a vortex of emotional chaos—and make you look like the problem when you try to set boundaries.



🧠 What it looks like:



1. Baiting – Poking you with sarcasm, accusations, or triggers to get a reaction.



2. Guilting – Playing the victim, twisting Scripture, or using your compassion against you.



3. Love bombing – Over-the-top affection, apologies, gifts, or promises—right before repeating the cycle.



📍The goal: Get you to question yourself, feel bad for protecting your peace, and stay in a cycle of abuse.



🛡️ How to Stay Grounded in Him:



✅ Recognize the pattern. It’s not love. It’s manipulation.


✅ Respond, don’t react. Stay calm. You don’t owe access to anyone who abuses it.


✅ Stand firm in your no. Boundaries are not rebellion—they are responsibility.


✅ Guard your heart. You can forgive and still walk away (Proverbs 4:23).


✅ Don’t argue with bait. Silence is strength. God sees it all.



📖 Scriptures to Strengthen You:



“Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him.” – Proverbs 26:4



“Let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No’...” – Matthew 5:37



“Speak the truth in love...” – Ephesians 4:15



“God is not a God of confusion but of peace...” – 1 Corinthians 14:33



“If anyone does not provide for his relatives, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever ” – 1 Timothy 5:8 (this includes emotional provision & accountability)



🔥 To the Overcomer who gets accused of being “disrespectful” or “not submissive” for simply standing up for yourself:


Jesus never submitted to manipulation, and you don’t have to either. Respecting yourself is not rebellion—it’s obedience to the One who made you.



You were not created to be controlled.


You were created to be covered, cherished, and protected—not manipulated.



👑 Stay firm. Stay kind. Stay free in Him.





If this is you and you need professional support to come alongside you in your healing journey, who has also been there, take that first step by reaching out to me to set up a time to discuss what that would look like and begin your BREAKTHROUGH to taking your life back and become the woman God created you to be.


 
 
 
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