"My client could have easily spent another hourlong session obsessing over "hot yoga guy" - which she'd done many times before - but I wasn't going to let her. My job as a therapist was to help bring deeper awareness to her emotional experience and to identify what was simmering just beneath the surface, driving compulsive thoughts and behaviors. In this case - limerence."
"However, unlike a typical crush, limerence is defined by obsessive ruminations, deep infatuation and a strong desire for emotional reciprocation - an unfulfilled longing for a person. According to Dorothy Tennov, American psychologist and author of Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love, limerence "may feel like a very intense form of being in love that may also feel irrational and involuntary.""
A married woman experienced persistent, intrusive fantasies and daydreams about a younger man she met at a yoga retreat, signaling a pattern beyond an ordinary crush. Therapy focused on interrupting compulsive rumination and exploring deeper emotional drivers beneath the infatuation. Limerence involves obsessive thoughts, deep infatuation, and a powerful desire for emotional reciprocation—an unfulfilled longing for a person. Dorothy Tennov described limerence as an intense, often involuntary form of being in love whose defining feature is its intrusiveness, an invasion of consciousness. Limerence can favor the idea of the person over a real relationship.
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