The Most Misunderstood Form of Love: Limerence

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The Most Misunderstood Form of Love: Limerence

I always knew I fell in love hard, but it wasn’t until limerence hit me that I knew something was different. When I started my quest to figure out what was happening to me, I could barely find any information at first. Obsessive love kept popping up on web searches, but there was a creepy vibe to that term that just seemed off - with the feeling of an inevitable diagnosis of crazy. I knew I wasn’t crazy, but I was definitely crazy in love… With the wrong person, at the wrong time. Who may or may not have felt the same way. Or couldn’t….The roller coaster ride of limerence is intoxicating, overwhelming and all consuming.

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Painful Love: When Loving Means Longing

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Painful Love: When Loving Means Longing

Love just out of reach. Hoping, wishing for more. Hanging on.

The pain of basic relationship needs not met.

Maybe you’ve never been in a relationship where you felt truly fulfilled or loved. Or drawn over and over to the just out of reach partner. The pain of longing can create a sort of intensity. A bittersweet passion. It can also make love without longing feel bland or missing “something.”


Have you ever felt this way? Maybe you didn’t do the chasing, you were pursued without ambiguity and it just felt off. Boring. No SPARK?

Maybe the more attractive option was the quiet, stormy, brooding guy just out of range who would barely even give you the time of day?


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