Dorothy Tennov's concept represents a scientific attempt at studying the nature of romantic love. She identified a suite of … 展开

The original components of limerence, from Love and Limerence, were:
intrusive thinking about the object of your passionate desire (the limerent object or "LO"), who is a possible sexual partner acute longing fo… 展开

Dorothy Tennov gives several reasons for inventing a term for the state denoted by limerence (usually termed "being in love"). One principle reason is to resolve ambiguities with the word "love" being used both to refer to a… 展开

In a 1998 essay, as well as in Love and Limerence, Dorothy Tennov has speculated that limerence has an evolutionary purpose.
For what ultimate cause might the state of limerence be a proximate cause? In other words, why wer… 展开