I remember when I was with my BPD partner that lots of love bombing occurred early on. Of course, I didn't realize that it was called love bombing when it was going on. It wasn't until later when the relationship ended after 13 years in a disasterous end that I began to understand all of the craziness of my life with that borderline.

Love bombing is a behavior that borderlines and narcissists do when they begin a new relationship. It's the way that they hook their partner (victim) in with excessive complements, gifts, affection, etc. The effect for the other person is intoxicating. It is a trap that is easy to fall for because it's very tempting to allow the borderline to make you the center of attention.

Unfortunately, it is a trap and the love bombing will end leaving you wanting more. A more critical and crazy personna will replace the love bombing personna of the borderline and you will still be ever hungry for the extreme amount of attention and desire the borderline flooded you with at the beginning. 

It's just a manipulative trick to pull you in. The borderline needs you to be drawn in  quickly and intensely because the borderline knows if you knew them and got to know them slowly you might not want to be with them. They act quickly though to get you to feel flattered, adored, treasured. The best thing you can do at this point is think, but they've overloaded your senses and emotions so you won't think. You'll be become caught in the web of the borderline's love bombing mission. And then you're theirs. 

Here are some more pages that explain what Love Bombing is:

Manipulative people hook their victims with a tactic called 'love bombing' — here are the signs you've been a target

Do people with BPD ‘love bomb’ like narcissists?

The Danger of Manipulative Love-Bombing in a Relationship

 

It's easy to see that you've been love bombed after it has occurred, but it's not so easy to detect love bombing as it's occurring. That's because we can't be sure of a person's behavior is love bombing until their behavior and treatment of the other takes a nosedive. Also, a person being love bombed may be enjoying the lovebombing and saturation of affection so much that their mind is incapable of acknowleging that they are being love bombed. 

The behavior is predatory and somewhat parasitic. But it is what gets the BPD person's foot in the door by giving somone so much attention and adoration that the victim will ignore all of the negative characteristics or warning signs of the borderline or narcissistic love bomber. 

If you think you are being love bombed by a borderline, you might want to learn more about it because if you're at least considering that you're being love bombed, you might have a chance of avoiding a terrible situation. But remember, the love bombing is effective at making sure you don't want to get out of the borderline's trap. So put your intellect and will before your feelings and do what you have to do to take care of yourself.