Overwhelming, distressing, all-consuming: this little-known form of romantic longing can have a devastating impact.

I’m a 32-year-old woman with a problem I’ve recently learned is called “limerence,” and it’s destroying my life. Every few years, I become completely obsessed with someone — usually someone ...

Smitten vibes or unhealthy obsession?

In 1979, Dorothy Tennov published Love and Limerence: The Experience of Being in Love, in which she made the case that some people fall into a distinct cognitive state in the early phase of romantic ...