‘Do you overshare here often?’ Why revealing too much on a first date could be a red flag

‘Floodlighting’ is the practice of sharing a lot of potentially traumatic details at once to speed up intimacy with another person. Is it just a show of vulnerability or something more manipulative?

Name: Floodlighting.

Age: The term – said to be coined by the author and psychologist Brené Brown – is new. The toxic dating practice it describes may have been going on for longer.