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The Crappy Childhood Fairy Podcast with Anna Runkle

Non-Romantic Maladaptive Attachment Can Fixate You on Anyone

Mar 1, 2024
13:55

LIMERENCE HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "an involuntary potentially inspiring state of adoration and attachment to a limerent object (LO) involving intrusive and obsessive thoughts, feelings and behaviors -- from euphoria to despair, contingent on perceived emotional reciprocation". While not inherently sexual, limerence is almost always romantic in nature. However, it’s very possible to have adoration to the point of intrusive thoughts show up in an attachment to parental figures, or authorities, or friends. In this letter I respond to a woman experiencing limerence for a mother figure.

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Send your questions & comments to: hello@crappychildhoodfairy.com

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