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Limerence is a state of mind resulting from romantic feelings for another person. It typically involves intrusive and melancholic thoughts, or tragic concerns for the object of one's affection, along with a desire for the reciprocation of one's feelings and to form a relationship with the object of love.
Such as, "affection", similar to "companionate love" in social psychology field, is the term most strongly co-occurs with terms in its generic sub-cluster and not with other terms in other sub-cluster groups: "Affection" for example contrasts significantly with "passionate love", which belongs to the second large sub-cluster – "lust". [42]
The lovemap is a concept originated by sexologist John Money in his discussions of how people develop their sexual preferences. Money defined it as "a developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover and the idealized program of sexual and erotic activity projected in imagery or actually engaged in with that lover."
"It takes time for a more sustainable love to be established, one that is actually a buffer to stress." A first "love," for example, may not be love at all, just a first strong emotional experience.
Hazan and Shaver [7] define love, using Ainsworth's attachment theory, as comprising proximity, emotional support, self-exploration, and separation distress when parted from the loved one. Other components commonly agreed to be necessary for love are physical attraction, similarity, [8] reciprocity, [5] and self-disclosure. [9]
In social psychology, interpersonal attraction is most-frequently measured using the Interpersonal Attraction Judgment Scale developed by Donn Byrne. [1] It is a scale in which a subject rates another person on factors such as intelligence, knowledge of current events, morality, adjustment, likability, and desirability as a work partner.
[5] [6] Passionate love is said to usually only be present in the early stage of a relationship [7] with companionate love often following after; [2] [9] however, in a phenomenon called long-term romantic love, intense attraction can remain much longer than is typical for passionate love, but without obsessional elements.
Storge: the love found between parents and children, often a unilateral love. Agape: the universal love, consisting of love for strangers, nature, or God. Ludus: playful and uncommitted love, intended for fun with no resulting consequences; Pragma: love founded on duty and reason, and one's longer-term interests.