My father died last week. I'm now immersed in a new world that I was previously unaware of - or rather, a world that always existed alongside me but that I could blissfully ignore. Funeral …
Why are they leading me on?
A woman's greatest ambition is to inspire love Molière Limerence is an extreme manifestation of a near-universal human desire - to fall in love, to bond, and to devote oneself to a mate. Limerent …
Honesty as a foundation for purposeful living
In the last post I outlined some of the key elements of purposeful living. Today, I'm going to dive a bit deeper into one of the foundational principles: honesty. Honesty can be interpreted in …
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The elements of purposeful living
One of the main goals of this site is to help people make sense of what's happening to them during limerence. Understanding that such intense romantic infatuation is a defined phenomenon, that it has …
How can you tell if someone is limerent?
Other people's behaviour can be baffling. When someone is limerent, this principle is even more obvious. We've all succumbed to limerent madness at one time or another. Some of the classics of the …
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Coffeehouse: the problem of ego
One of the factors that can make an LO "sticky" for single limerents is the ego-bruising disappointment that we were not good enough to persuade them into a relationship. Perversely, that can make LO …