Love and Limerance: The Experience of Being in Love
by Dorothy Tennov
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Read in January, 2000
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Every adolescent and adult
A superb study of the contrast between realistic love based on an in-depth and accurate knowledge of one's partner on the one hand, and limerence, another word for infatuation, on the other - limerence is based on idealization, novelty, and hormones, and serves to get us into situations where love can develop but is not sustainable in the long term. This runs contrary to our culture's mythos and leads too many people to think there's something wrong with their relationships, that the "magi...more
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Read in January, 2005
This book explained my life. More particularly, it explained a phenomenon that has occurred in my life time and again, for better or worse (or more aptly, for best and for worst)... and made me realize that while I often act and feel crazy when in love, I am neither a bad person nor insane. For anyone who finds themselves regularly and unwillingly under the spell of another human being, check this out.
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Should be required reading for high school. Although It would probably be better to write a version FOR high school. Lots of behavioural paradigms from psychology are like witchcraft metaphors, apparently. This book helps dispel the phlogiston....
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eye-opening. oddly relatable for a concept not well known outside the binding of the book. Examples were a little outdated, it could stand to be freshened up for the '00s but otherwise I felt it was quite relevant.
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