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Limerence Deep Dive (Chapter 5 - Emotional Symptoms)
🕑 Added 2025-12-02 12:00:11 +0000 UTCDr Kirk Honda provides his long-awaited lecture on limerence.
December 2, 2025
00:00 Limerence in the wild
17:33 Background anxiety
24:51 Continuous tension and hyper anxiety
36:47 Constant intrusion
46:51 Mood swings
1:05:58 Excessive longing
1:12:09 Denial
1:23:42 Anger at the limerent object
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Comments
Maria R
And / or Sarah (Laura Linney), who has been pining for her co-worker since day one but never really talked to him
Lilja Gudnadottir
Would you say Mark in Love Actually (the one in love with Keira Knightly's character) had limerence?
Waylon Waddell
By that I mean, it was an addictive behavior that was an early indicator that I was headed down a path back to my real drug of choice.
Waylon Waddell
The more I listen to these episodes and the more I reflect on my experience of limerence, the more I am realizing that that experience was likely much more of a contributing factor leading up to my relapse back in 2020. Wow.
