Sarma Melngailis
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471 appearances
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 1 Jan
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In my case, it wasn't so much love bombing as it was...
more like validation bombing because what this man did, it wasn't that I was so in love with him or it was about some sort of romantic delusion.
It was more that he knew he had clocked me as somebody where what meant the most to me in the world was this business and what I wanted to
it to do for the world.
And then at the same time, he figured out what all of my weaknesses and vulnerabilities were.
And so what people do like this, and I think cult leaders do this as well, is they present to you your goals and ideals and the best version of you and what you want to be ultimately, and then somehow attach themselves to it as if the only way to get there is through them.
So I would say in my case, it was more of like,
I don't know, it was like a validation bombing, like sort of overwhelming me with feeling like he recognized and understood what I wanted to do and understood all of my hopes and dreams and my frustrations and that he would be able to remove all of those frustrations and enable me to grow my business into the business that I wanted it to be without...
you know, the influence of sort of unsavory investors or because I was in a position where a lot of people wanted to come help me expand the business, but they were not the right people or they were predatory.
Anthony would tell me that that $2 million debt that I'd taken on to buy the restaurant, that's like nothing.
He would just take care of that and make that go away.
So he would be there with me and help, you know, support me to do all the things that I wanted to do.
you know, would be protected at least in one significant way financially.
And I remember thinking that would be like some sort of dream come true.
I remember asking the accountant, would he be able to just give me that money or would that be taxable and how could we do that?
And he sort of jokingly but half seriously said, well, you should just marry him and then he can give you the money without it being taxable in a taxable situation.
And very quickly, it was like the next day we went and got the license.
They have to wait 24 hours.
And it was like, boom, 24 hours.
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