Addicted to Love? Or Is It Limerence?
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Falling in love is a heady experience. Life can go from gray tones to technicolor in days.
If you’ve been in a depressed slump, experiencing a huge life transition or a big loss, the rush of euphoric oxytocin/dopamine and other neurotransmitters can make you feel amazing, until - it stops feeling so great. But…is it the real person or the feeling of being in love that you love?
When you realize that despite your best efforts, you ACTUALLY can’t stop thinking about this other person even if you want to - whether or not it is even a good/rationale/sane idea to try to be with them, you may also realize you may need some help getting out of this.
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Does Mutual Limerence Really Exist?
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Mutual limerence is the intense, fated seeming love coupling portrayed in story books or movies…after conquering a big obstacle, both people fall madly, head over heels in love in mutual emotional and physical bliss, admiration and passion for each other. For many of us, it’s the ideal and why we keep searching for “the one.” And while mutual limerence certainly does occur (at least in the beginning of a relationship) the timing of limerence happening mutually in a sustained way, for both people and at the same degree of intensity is much, much more rare.
Read on to find out more about mutual limerence….
Read MoreFood For Love: Hope, Fantasy and Anticipation
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All love stories start out with the big three: Hope, Fantasy and Anticipation.
In reciprocated, mutualing-falling-in-love love stories, the Hope, Fantasy and Anticipation trifecta create the exciting beginning stage or “honeymoon” phase. But what if there are obstacles? What if the one you love isn’t available, or worse, you’re not sure if they feel the same way? Falling in love is a natural progression and a natural state of being, but….
Love doesn’t really seem to care if you’re already married or committed…Or if the one you love is. Or if they give you mixed signals….
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