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the agony of eros: on limerence - by Ava - bookbear express

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"for my next trick, I will gaslight myself"

Howard Hodgkins, Ice, 2008-10 Hello! This is the next installment in my series on how love hurts and why. Recently the main character of Twitter was a woman who left her husband of 14 years after meeting a guy she really vibed with at a conference. She became convinced over the course of an evening that he was her soulmate. The title of her forthcoming book is When A Soulmate says No, so it turns out that he was not her soulmate. But why did she think he might be? Limerence. The psychologist Dorothy Tennov coined the term limerence, which is the obsessive, all-consuming feeling certain…

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