Overwhelming, distressing, all-consuming: this little-known form of romantic longing can have a devastating impact.

I’m a 32-year-old woman with a problem I’ve recently learned is called “limerence,” and it’s destroying my life. Every few years, I become completely obsessed with someone — usually someone ...

Have you ever had that heady, exciting, scary feeling when you were in the presence of someone you were attracted to? If you have, then you may have been experiencing the beginning of limerence. The ...

Smitten vibes or unhealthy obsession?

In 1979, Dorothy Tennov published Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love, in which she made the case that some people fall into a distinct cognitive state in the early phase of romantic ...