I've spent this week working on a new post on the neuroscience of how limerence fades, drawing on the literature of habituation and hedonic adaptation, but if I'm honest it's been a bit of a …
Case study: I don’t want to devalue my limerent object
Rachel got in touch recently about a scenario that is very difficult to cope with - not difficult because of any grand drama, or threats to life and limb, but because there is no simple escape from …
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A personal note on adversity
For six years, I have written this blog, and added a new post every Saturday morning at 9 am UK time. This is the first week that I thought I would not manage it. It is currently 11:52 pm on …
Morality, limerence and purposeful living
A couple of years ago, I read the book "The Righteous Mind" by Jonathan Haidt. For those unfamiliar, it introduces the concept of Moral Foundations Theory, which emerged from Haidt's research into the …
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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 …