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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

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1) intense fixation on whether your feelings are reciprocated and

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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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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.”

Ava • The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express

The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express

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emotional intelligence and Love

Katherine Anne Porter in an interview once said "I made the mistake of thinking I was quite like anyone else, of trying to live like other people. It took me a while to realize that simply wasn’t true. I had my own needs, and I had to live like me.”

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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

Ava • The Agony of Eros: On Limerence - By Ava - Bookbear Express

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... See more