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 What is Limerence: A Love or Attraction?   Relationships Limerence has a connection to love and affection. It can be said as infatuation or desire for a person, a feeling that one expresses for the loved ones. Limerence in simple words is having attraction for a person which was introduced first by a psychologist Dorothy Tennov in 1977. She was the first women to explain what is limerence which was later explained further in her book “Love and Limerence”. This book was published in the year 1979. In this attraction or Limerence, the person gets emotionally bind to other person and feels strong desire to own that person in his/her life. Moreove r, the person who desires also gets involved into sexual desires which make him/her weaker to fall into relationship. This attraction is kind of near obsession where one person already falls in love and sets to do anything to achieve the person on whom he is attracted to. However, this is not the real love. Limerence can be counted from limited