limerence

• It contradicts a previous study suggesting that passionate love peters out in 15 months, after going through a roller coaster ride, called 'limerence' in psychological parlance. —  IBN Top Headlines
• Stony Brook University (SBU) researchers who conducted the latest study said that when limerence matures, it permits couples to enjoy "intensive companionship and sexual liveliness". —  IBN Top Headlines
• Scanning the brains of people who have been together for 20 years, the scientists found that about one in 10 couples still display elements of "limerence", the psychologists 'term for the obsessive behaviour of new lovers. —  The Seventh Sense
• It's hard because limerence like you have is obsessive and compulsive. —  Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums
• Just remember that, and that it'll pass, and even if she wants you when it does, that is actually much better without the limerence in place because of all the problems it brings. —  Wrong Planet Asperger / Autism Forums

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