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What is a limerence?

What is a limerence? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (psychology) An involuntary romantic infatuation with another person, especially combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated. [from 20th c.]
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Love, sexual attraction, and limerence can all exist without each other or any or all of them can coexist together.
What is destructive is getting married when limerence is the only thing that's drawing you together.
I am unfamiliar with the literature on limerence, but after reading this chapter I still had no idea about what research had been done on this topic.
If limerence is returned, the feelings intensify and the couple end up ignoring their friends.
When someone is under the spell of limerence, not even being rejected dampens down the madness.

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