Is it love or love bombing? This free worksheet helps you spot the red flags, weigh words against actions, and protect your boundaries early.

Love bombing can feel intoxicating at first — constant attention, big declarations, a connection that moves at lightning speed. But intensity isn’t the same as intimacy. Often it’s the opening move of manipulation or control. Slowing down is how you protect yourself.

This free worksheet helps you tell the difference between healthy interest and unhealthy intensity — recognizing the patterns, checking them against someone’s actual behavior, and trusting what your body is telling you before you’re in too deep.

• Noticing the early intensity and how boundaries were treated
• Weighing what they said against what they actually did
• Checking in with what your body knew
• Turning it into a dating safety checklist and a commitment

Intensity that can’t tolerate a “slow down” is information — real love doesn’t ask you to abandon your pace to keep someone interested.

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