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Taken from:  http://www.stormtiger.com/collie/archive/addons/200402a.html

Tennov was a professor of psychology at the University of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Circa 1977 she coined the noun ``limerence'' and the adjective ``limerent'' to describe a particular state of mind.

Limerence is what is sometimes referred to as ``being in love'' with someone, as opposed to ``loving'' someone. Or sometimes it's called ``romantic love'' or ``passionate love.'' But that's not an adequate definition, because nonlimerents also use these terms to describe their own feelings.
Limerence is also sometimes called ``infatuation.'' But ``infatuation'' has implications of immaturity, and of extrapolating from insufficient information, that Tennov didn't want.

Symptoms of Limerence

``Limerence has certain basic components:

• ``intrusive thinking about the object of your passionate desire (the limerent object or `LO'), who is a possible sexual partner
• ``acute longing for reciprocation
• ``dependency of mood on LO's actions or, more accurately, your interpretation of LO's actions with respect to the probability of reciprocation
• ``inability to react limerently to more than one person at a time (exceptions occur when limerence is at low ebb -- early on or in the last fading)
• ``some fleeting and transient relief from unrequited limerent passion through vivid imagination of action by LO that means reciprocation
• ``fear of rejection and sometimes incapacitating but always unsettling shyness in LO's presence, especially in the beginning and whenever uncertainty strikes
• ``intensification through adversity (at least, up to a point)
• ``acute sensitivity to any act or thought or condition that can be interpreted favorably, and extraordinary ability to devise or invent ``reasonable'' explanations for why the neutrality that the disinterested observer might see is in fact a sign of hidden passion in the LO
• ``an aching of the `heart' (a region in the center front of the chest) when uncertainty is strong
• ``buoyancy (a feeling of walking on air) when reciprocation seems evident
• ``a general intensity of feeling that leaves other concerns in the background
• ``a remarkable ability to emphasize what is truly admirable in LO and to avoid dwelling on the negative, even to respond with a compassion for the negative and render it, emotionally if not perceptually, into another positive attribute.''

Am I in love, or just limerent, that is the million dollar question now. 

"...my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand..."