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limerance

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limerance
The state of being love-stricken. See Infatuation.


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They compare courtship (no budworms), which features an impossibly low state of negative affect coupled with high positive affect that is unstable (and we know that limerance fades in all types of relationships within a year or two), a balanced condition (some budworms) with more positive affect than negative, and a runaway condition of escalating negative affect (budworms take over) that usually predicts divorce.
 
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