LIMERENCE
Limerence is a state of mind which results from romantic or non-romantic feelings for another person, and typically includes intrusive, melancholic thoughts, or tragic concerns for the object of one's affection as well as a desire to form or maintain a relationship with the object of love and to have one's feelings reciprocated.
Psychologist Dorothy Tennov coined the term "limerence" as an arbitrary euphonious alteration of amorance to describe a concept that had grown out of her work in the mid-1960s, when she interviewed over 500 people on the topic of love.Anthropologist and author Helen Fisher writes that data collection on romantic attraction began with Tennov's Love and Limerence, with Tennov collecting survey results, diaries, and other personal accounts. Fisher has said that "limerence is romantic love, with all its feelings and behaviors". She describes Tennov's limerence as "a suite of psychological traits associated with 'being in love'", and theorizes it to be part of a biological "attraction system" involved with mate selection in mammals.Intense, ruminative romantic fixation is associated with dopamine reward circuits in the brain and falling in love may lower serotonin levels which is associated with intrusive thinking.
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