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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 descriptions of their emotions and actions. She chose the label limerence to describe an inte...