Tampa (BLOOM) – Limerence is no ordinary crush or infatuation—it is an intense romantic obsession that can consume ...

Have you ever been so consumed by a crush that you couldn't stop thinking about them? Or when you weren't around them, you felt sick to your stomach? There's a word for that, and it's called ...

Limerence is a term you may not be familiar with. It describes an involuntary, uncontrollable and obsessive desire for ...

Limerence involves an obsessive infatuation with a specific person. This individual’s feelings toward the person with limerence are typically unclear. This can cause the individual with limerence to ...

Certainty may, for the most part, be agreed upon, but its inherent, fundamental subjectivity, the experience of assessing the likelihood of a prediction's probability, is frightening. Limerence was ...

When David* logged onto my Zoom class in the spring 2021 semester of my senior year of college, I was elated. We’d “met” virtually in another class the previous semester, but lost touch during winter ...

Though limerence—a.k.a. obsessive longing—has become a sort of buzzword recently, it’s actually a pretty well-worn concept; there are endless literary examples of weepy protagonists investing way too ...

Limerence describes an intense, obsessive infatuation for another person, known as the “limerent object” (LO). It often involves an intense fear of rejection and longing for reciprocation. Unlike ...

People in a state of limerence idolize their limerent object, fixating on their positive traits, with their emotions becoming dependent on perceived signs of interest or rejection, leading to extreme ...