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fromBuzzFeed
5 days ago

I Had A Secret Teenage Romance. It Wasn't Until Years Later That I Realized What Really Happened.

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.
Mental health
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fromPsychology Today
5 days ago

The Limerent Innovator

Innovation limerence is obsessive fixation where founders idealize ideas, projecting themselves onto ventures and ignoring market reality until the fantasy collapses.
Mental health
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Desire in one of its rawest forms': what do we know about limerence?

Limerence is an intense, obsessive romantic longing with intrusive thoughts, emotional dependency, and life disruption, amplified by digital uncertainty and intermittent contact.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Does Limerence Lead to Stalking?

Limerence is a distinct early romantic state of intense preoccupation, arousal, and yearning that can resemble addiction and remains culturally recognized but academically marginalized.
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fromwww.npr.org
2 months ago

A neuroscientist explains how to break free from romantic infatuation

Limerence is an intense romantic infatuation that can produce euphoria but may transform into anxiety and craving when genuine bonding fails.
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fromThe Gottman Institute
3 months ago

Is the Honeymoon Phase a Myth? Understanding Love's Most Romanticized Stage

The honeymoon phase produces intense biologically driven attraction that creates unrealistic baseline expectations and can impair judgment and impulse control.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Understanding Limerence and Obsessive Love

Limerence is an intense, persistent, obsessive form of longing that hijacks cognition and emotion, causing intrusive thoughts, compulsive fantasies, extreme mood swings, and impaired functioning.
fromwww.mercurynews.com
3 months ago

Dear Abby: This delusion about our childhood has ruined my sister's life

My sister is struggling with severe mental health issues, and so is her live-in boyfriend of 6 years. She thinks everyone she's ever had contact with was involved in human-trafficking her throughout her childhood. Abby, we grew up safe and privileged on a farm, but my sister had some severe trauma starting in our late teen years. We are now in our mid-40s. She refuses treatment and thinks there is nothing wrong with her.
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fromPsychology Today
6 months ago

Swipe, Spiral, Repeat: OCD and Dating

OCD exacerbates dating challenges through obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors.
Limerence can mislead individuals to idealize partners while ignoring red flags.
Fear of disclosing OCD leads to anxiety about judgment during dating.
Relationships
fromwww.theguardian.com
7 months ago

I want to start dating casually. How do I turn off the illogical, hopelessly romantic part of my brain? | Leading questions

Understand the difference between love and crushes to navigate casual dating better.
Recognize feelings of limerence and how they differ from genuine love.
Relationships
fromBuzzFeed
7 months ago

I Had A Secret Teenage Romance. It Wasn't Until Years Later That I Realized What Really Happened.

Limerence is a complex emotional state characterized by obsessive infatuation and unfulfilled longing for a person.
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