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- 1) intense fixation on whether your feelings are reciprocated and
from The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express by Substack
- And to live in your own story is to set your own arc — to find your own voice that rings sweetly through the silence. To recognize and accept your desires instead of running from them — whether they are selfish, absurd, mundane. And to accept responsibility for your choices. Choosing who you love. Choosing what you love. Hildegard: we cannot live i
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- You can tell when someone is quietly confident. When they have a concise sense of their own identity — they don’t need to overcompensate or speak loudly about their successes or wealth or intensity
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- 2) obsessive preoccupation with the love object
- It involves compulsive daydreaming about the limerent object
- It's predicted on uncertainty; when you are sure of reciprocation, it naturally disappears over time
from The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express by Substack
- Limerence is the obsessive, all-consuming feeling certain people get when they fall in love
- The most prominent characteristic of limerence, as she explains it, is
from The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express by Substack
- People who are anxious tend to experience limerence more often than people who are not; it bears a lot of similarity to anxious-preoccupied attachment
from The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express by Substack
- It's the feeling of being possessed by desire. When you ask people about being limerent it’s not atypical to hear “It almost ruined my life,” sometimes followed by “I miss the intensity of it.”
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