Love and Limerence_ The Experience of Being in Love

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Author(s): Dorothy Tennov
Publisher: Scarborough House
Year: 0

Language: English
Pages: 209

1999 Preface......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1 The Beginning......Page 14
2 The Individual Experience of Limerence......Page 24
ECSTATIC UNION......Page 27
PERCEPTION OF THE LIMERENT OBJECT......Page 32
INTRUSIVE THINKING......Page 34
THE COURSE OF LIMERENCE......Page 38
FEAR OF REJECTION......Page 42
HOPE......Page 47
THE BODY SPEAKS......Page 49
PLOYS AND PLAYS......Page 53
SEXUALITY......Page 56
3 The Other Sides of Limerence......Page 62
UNREQUITED LIMERENCE......Page 63
READINESS AND LONGING FOR LIMERENCE......Page 76
NONLIMERENCE......Page 78
4 The Social Effects of Limerence......Page 84
LIMERENT BEHAVIOR......Page 86
POSITIVE EFFECTS......Page 87
AFFECTIONAL BONDING......Page 90
THE LIMERENT AND THE NONLIMERENT......Page 92
THE DURATION OF LIMERENCE......Page 96
MARRIAGE......Page 98
NEGATIVE EFFECTS......Page 100
LIMERENCE IN WRITING AND MUSIC......Page 108
COMMERCIAL EXPLOITATION......Page 110
5 The Opinions of Philosophers, Psychologists, and Other Experts......Page 111
TABOO......Page 113
FROM CAPELLANUS TO THE HUMANISTS......Page 116
PSYCHOTHERAPY......Page 122
6 Limerence Among the Sexes......Page 136
SOCIAL CONSTRAINTS......Page 138
SEX DIFFERENCES AND SEX ROLES......Page 141
HOMOLIMERENCE......Page 147
MISOGYNY......Page 152
7 Limerence and Biology......Page 157
GENETIC FITNESS......Page 158
IMPRINTING......Page 162
PHYSICAL ATTRACTIVENESS......Page 164
8 Can Limerence Be Controlled?......Page 166
WHAT CAN A LIMERENT SUFFERER DO?......Page 167
WHAT TO DO IF YOUR LO BECOMES LIMERENT ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE......Page 170
“RUNNING LIKE HELL”......Page 171
WHAT ABOUT PROFESSIONAL HELP?......Page 173
WHAT THE NONLIMERENT LO CAN DO......Page 174
BUT WHAT STARTS IT?......Page 176
Appendix FURTHER RESEARCH......Page 179
Notes......Page 182
Bibliography......Page 195
Index......Page 200