Earlier this month, Fenna van den Berg and I launched a new community site for people whose partners have developed limerence for someone outside the relationship. Since then, we’ve been very busy …
Launch of partner’s community
For a few weeks now, I've been trailing the launch of a new online community specifically tailored to the partners of people who have become limerent for someone else, putting their marriage or …
Reasons why limerence affairs don’t last
If your long-term partner develops limerence for someone else, it can be disastrous. By definition, limerents are not in their right mind, and many can instinctively follow their emotions through …
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Emotional versus physical affairs
The stimulus for this post is another nugget of wisdom from the coffeehouse. Adam raised the following issue: I could forgive my wife much easier for an emotional affair than a sexual one, even if …
Can a marriage recover from limerence?
I've written many times about the impact on a marriage of developing limerence for someone new. It's an existential threat under the worst conditions, and a serious hardship even in the best-managed …
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Signs that your partner doesn’t respect you
In the last post, we discussed the many problems of dealing with limerence in marriage, and the emotional storm that betrayed partners have to contend with. One of the chief difficulties in …
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