Our language always seems incomplete in some way when we talk about love. There are so many coupled emotions, desires, and states of mind that it's hard to untangle the mess into something coherent. The concept of limerence comes from attachment theory as an attempt to isolate the state of romantic attraction and desire for reciprocity from the general mish-mash of agape and eros. You can read more about it here:
Limerence
I'm not a sociologist, so I can't say much for attachment theory's utility to understanding more about human relationships. I do find it interesting, though, how the most intimate and powerful experiences people have can also be so alien and slippery when we try to lock them down with unchanging definitions. Maybe there's a lesson here, that human experiences don't really work that way, or maybe we just haven't hit on the right ideas yet. I'm not a guru or a Bodhisattva either, so I couldn't say.
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