Limerence
Ons queers het 'n nuwe woordeskat nodig vir die maniere waarop ons lief het. Sarah Guinevere Smit skryf hier oor limerence, en oor daai states of limerent yearning wat baie van ons so diep ken.
I doubt that anyone understands love and yearning quite like lesbians. We practically own the other other L-word: limerence. Dorothy Tennov, the American psychologist who coined the term, wrote in the preface to her 1979 book Love and Limerence:
“You think: I want you. I want you forever, now, yesterday, and always. Above all, I want you to want me. No …
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