Romantic Love: The problem with Western cultures
Co-incidentally, I recently read the book referenced in the article:<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Limerence-Experience-Being/dp/0812862864/" rel="nofollow">http://www.amazon.com/Love-Limerence-Experience-Being/dp/081...</a><p>While it's short on prescriptions for actually overcoming limerence, I found it helpful in at least understanding the mechanisms driving my limerent feelings. If you want help coping with limerence, the tribes.com forum may be of some help (though a fair amount of it is simply people broadcasting their neuroses). I have found some nuggets of good advice however:<p><a href="http://tribes.tribe.net/limerence" rel="nofollow">http://tribes.tribe.net/limerence</a><p>It's hard to say whether limerence is in and of itself a problem. Tennov takes a NPOV. Certainly, if you're supposed to be working and instead you're daydreaming about someone it's a problem. Like a lot of things, it lies on a spectrum from pleasurable to pathological or dangerous. Still, I would agree with the author's point that understanding the distinction between limerance and love can be helpful.