An Eternity of Longing
Limerence is fraught with longing for requited affection. The longing is so great that any path not seen as progressing toward that goal is quickly turned…
Category: Navigating Negative Feelings
Limerence invokes the gamut of emotions, from ecstasy to rejection, from hopefulness to despair and many, many more. This series explores how to walk through negative feelings associated with limerence and give them to God, for He understands our struggles and He alone is in control.
Watching from the Sideline
Imagine the people around you are playing your favorite sports game. You believe you are fit enough to play, but no one is choosing you to…
Guarding Your Heart
Nothing motivates a person to become willing to be vulnerable quite like limerence. The thinking is, if a little vulnerability results in finally having someone love…
Trying to Make Anyone the One
Sometimes in limerence a person begins to imagine that he or she might feel better simply having someone, anyone, as a romantic partner. Who it is…
Maintaining Platonic Friendship
Platonic friendship occurs between two people who consider themselves friends but are not mutually romantically interested in each other. Maintaining healthy platonic friendships comes naturally for…
Battling Person Addiction
In many individuals’ experiences of limerence, it can be described in just two words: person addiction. Like any severe addiction, limerence that has progressed to the…
Combating Complacency and Nonchalance
Maybe this is merely an element of my experience with limerence, but I wrestled with complacency and nonchalance. What I mean by complacency is that whenever…
Stopping the Emotional Roller Coaster
How can one deal with the emotional roller coaster of limerence? The highs and lows and unpredictable twists and turns are extreme, intense and perplexing. Sometimes…
7 Gifts of Rejection
When I was in my early twenties, I worked part time as a tutor for middle school students. At the time, I had a crush on…
Dealing with the What-Ifs
During my limerence, my mind was filled constantly with sequences of events that never actually happened. Naturally, I fantasized of ways I could encourage my limerence…