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320 - Limerence and NRE: The Dark and Light Sides of the Force

Multiamory: Rethinking Modern Relationships

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The Importance of Limerence

Limerence is an involuntary, potentially inspiring state of adoration and attachment to a limerick object. The concept of limerence first originated in Dr. Dorothy Tenov's research in the mid 1960s. In her 1979 book, Love and Limorance, the experience of being in love was described as "grubby"

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