Life, love, and limerence
One of the most striking observations in the study of limerence is the link to anxious attachment. My attempt to estimate the prevalence of limerence in the general population suggests that 50-60% of …
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One of the challenges in writing about limerence from a neuroscience perspective is that there is very little original research on limerence, specifically. It’s not a term or concept that has caught …
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Another visit to the virtual coffee house of wisdom and camaraderie - where level heads put the world to rights, and wonky heads chitchat about whatever they please and meander wherever their fancy …
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Note: this is an updated version of an older post Limerence is an altered state of mind. That means its ultimate origins must lie in the brain. When Dorothy Tennov first defined limerence, she …
I often take a rather negative view of limerence. The majority of articles on the site come from the perspective that limerence needs to be managed or constrained or beaten or reversed, despite my …
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One of the defining features of limerence is the soul-aching desire to be close to your limerent object. That’s because limerence is a drive to form a pair bond - in order to make babies, propagate …
Workplace crushes are very common. In the past, before the advent of dating apps and social media, workplace relationships were also very common. Many people met their future spouse through work, or …
Another visit to the virtual coffee house at LwL, this time with a very definite agenda on my part. Welcome, welcome! All the while that I was writing this blog pseudonymously as Dr L, I didn’t …
Helen Fisher, one of the most influential writers and researchers in the field of love, died at the end of August. It’s taken me a while to hear the news. There are some good obituaries that focus …
In the last post I made the case for limerence causing a collapse of self-discipline, which I termed "appetite supremacy", and outlined some of the bad consequences that can follow. They are pretty …
Hi Folks. Now I'm out as myself, I'm starting to do some in-person events. The first one is in London on October 17th: If you've ever fancied spending an evening discussing love, and can …
In last week's open thread, I mentioned a phenomenon that affected me during limerence, when I could feel my sense of responsibility ebbing away during contact with my limerent object. As I described …
