shiverypeaks

Note: this is a draft, and an excerpt of a larger article that I'm currently writing. Actual descriptions of limerence Following are descriptions of limerence from actual scholars and professionals who do in fact understand what the term is supposed to mean: a kind of intense romantic love which can be debilitating, but is in fact normal. "Tennov (1979) used the term limerence to refer to a kind of infatuated, all-absorbing passion — the kind of love that Dante felt for Beatrice, or that Juliet and Romeo [nb. who both die] felt for each other. Tennov argued that an important feature of limerence is that it should be unrequited, or at least unfulfilled. It consists of a state of intense longing for the other person, in which the individual becomes more or less obsessed by that person and spends much of their time fantasising about them." ( Hayes, 2000 , p. 457) "[Tennov] discovered that many who considered themselves "madly in love" had similar descr...