Article 6WJY5 What happens when love tips over into the infatuated state of ‘limerence’?

What happens when love tips over into the infatuated state of ‘limerence’?

by
Dr Tom Bellamy
from Science | The Guardian on (#6WJY5)

A neuroscientist decided to study the addiction-like obsession of limerence, while overcoming it himself

I never really gave much thought to the nature of love until it became a problem.

Throughout adolescence I suffered through a series of intense, mostly unrequited crushes, but just assumed this was the exquisite agony of desire that poets and lyricists work so hard to capture in words.

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