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limerance

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limerance
The state of being love-stricken. See Infatuation.
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Limerance is that first stage of mad attraction where all the hormones are flowing and things feel so right.
DR MIRIAM: MIRIAM'S PHOTO CASEBOOK; Love at any cost - Day 5 by The Mirror (London, England)
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.
Using dynamic nonlinear mathematical models to explain patterns of ... by Ripley, Jennifer / The Journal of Sex Research
 
 
 
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