The state of being infatuated or obsessed with another person, typically involuntary and characterized by a strong desire for reciprocation.
Coined by psychologist Dorothy Tennov in 1979 in her book 'Love and Limerence.' She needed a clinical term for the overwhelming, obsessive early stage of romantic attraction.
A psychologist studied people SO in love they couldn't eat or sleep, and she invented a whole new word for it! Limerence is that butterflies-and-can't-stop-thinking-about-them phase. Science says it usually lasts 18 months to 3 years! 💘
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