Super-busy with the day job at the moment, so behind on blogging. Whenever possible, I work with some background music. Often this needs to be classical (or at least lyric-free) but sometimes …
Romantic love
Busy with work, but here's another good video by Helen Fisher. Her checklist for romantic love is a near perfect definition of limerence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoKbMPyBwF8 Bit …
Article on long-term love
Following on from the post on libido, here's an interesting article in Psychology today about long term romantic love. It is possible to sustain the romantic/erotic connection for many years. It …
Hard choices
Here's a great presentation by the philosopher Ruth Chang on how the choices we make create the distinct person that we are. It's not specific to limerence, of course - more related to the concept …
Article on limerence as pathology
Here's an interesting article from The Week that outlines some of the history of Dorothy Tennov's work, and the current tendency to push limerence as a term reserved for pathological obsessive …
Therapy for limerence
Much of the discussion about limerence in psychological circles explicitly pathologises it as an experience, and works from the premise that it is a mental disorder arising from an underlying trauma …