Tag: limerence

• Essay: Limerence: The Obsessive ‘Crush’ That Feels Exactly Like Love — and Why It Hits Married People So Hard

  Limerence is the intense, intrusive infatuation that hijacks your thoughts and feels like true love. Here’s what it really is, how long it lasts, and why. Marie thought she was losing her mind. Forty-three, married fifteen years, two teenagers and a job she was good at — and suddenly she couldn’t get a man she’d…