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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've only seen this word limerance on dcum, and I don't understand its usage.  (Or maybe l do lol.)  It seems like the cheated-upon use it to downplay the severity of their spouse's affair.  Or someone who wants to get over someone tells herself her feelings aren't real, they're just limerance.  As if it's a clinical condition with no basis in real emotions.

IMO, limerance is another word for crush...and ALL romantic relationships start with a crush.  So why differentiate, OP?  Either their relationship will stand the test of time or it won't, but it is a relationship, and your partner is choosing to have that relationship with someone else.  That is all that matters.[/quote]

There is often a lot of fantasy in limerance, I think it is like a crush first and then intensifies (and then ppropels eventual sexual affair behavior).  It seems to me to just mark a certain early phase of a type of affair, an emotional affair that may turn sexual. A crush seems more mild, in limerance the gears are turning, the adrenaline is firing, the love hormones are flooding and the secrecy is building. It's more intense than a crush. And more active typically. Just my opinion.[/quote]

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