Obsession / Limerence
For the attachment that feels too loud to ignore and too unstable to trust.
Love tends to make room for reality. Obsession keeps editing reality to preserve the high.
Obsession / Limerence
Obsession often feels like love because it is emotionally loud. It takes up space, interrupts sleep, and makes ordinary life look flat by comparison.
Love can tolerate information. Obsession filters information according to whether it protects the fantasy.
A useful test: are you attached to the person as they behave, or to the version of yourself you become when they want you?
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