Molly Gorman

Features journalist, writer and Midlander based in London.

Psychology and Health

Limerence: When a crush becomes obsessive

"Limerence is something that happens to us," in a way that may be involuntary, said Dorothy Tennov, the psychologist who first coined the term in her 1979 book, Love and Limerence. After conducting over 300 interviews about romantic love, she identified a phenomenon that didn't yet seem to have a name of its own – an involuntary, intrusive and overwhelming longing for another person. In psychological research, this person, the obsession, is known as the limerent object (LO). Being limerent does...

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