Following on from last week’s guest post on the history of love research, the central point that “it’s often simply unclear who is talking about what,” captures a lot of the difficulties of …
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Guest post: The state of romantic love
One of the headaches of working on limerence is that scholarly research on love suffers from a problem of definitions. Lots of the words we use in everyday life to talk about love have been used (and …
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Why are they so addictive?
Happy New Year to everyone at LwL! Here's my latest video on what makes some people especially addictive. Enjoy! https://youtu.be/VpKXmZx7-1s?si=LdAoKl36qCqYTWFX …
Coffeehouse: Limerence in The Holiday
Happy Christmas LwL peeps! This seasonal trip to the virtual coffeehouse was inspired by Onyx, who emailed to suggest that the relationship between Iris and Jasper in the romantic comedy "The …
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The pain of long-term limerence
I generally talk about limerence as runaway reward seeking—as person addiction in the sense of chasing the intoxicating high of the limerent object. Gimme gimme gimme That’s definitely the route …
How addictive is your LO?
One of the key principles for recovery from limerence here at LwL is: limerence is happening in your head. I stick by that principle, as it's both true and useful. Nobody else can fix the …