Whereas Dorothy Tennov used the term in the 1970s to describe what she saw as the normal, though difficult, condition of being in passionate love, Samara’s therapist used it in a distinctly different way. Limerence still meant the involuntary state of being in love and experiencing an overwhelming and preoccupying need to have those feelings returned. But it was no longer considered a “normal human experience” in the way Tennov described it. Instead, limerence described a disorder.
Limerence
