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Do You F*cking Mind?

302. Limerence Vs Love: How Obsession is Getting in the Way of you Finding Love

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.9914 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Do you find that you fall heeadd over heels with someone on a first date? Or even BEFORE the first date? Do you watch Rom-Coms and think Oh MY GOD that’s what I need. My beautiful bean you are confusing love with limerence.

I’m going to take you through what limerence is, how it differs from love, why romantic movies are selling you a LIE and finally – how to chill and calm your farm when you’re dating. It might just help you find someone you’re actually compatible with!

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Host: Alexis Fernandez       
Executive Producer & Editor: Elise Cooper
Digital Producer: Zoe Panaretos
DYFM Social Producer: Shania Magua
Managing Producer: Sam Cavanagh 

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0:00.0

A Listener Production

0:03.9

Please leave your message after the tone

0:07.3

Why am I jealous of my ex?

0:09.8

I am so stressed all the time

0:11.7

How do I get into a routine?

0:13.3

Is TikTok making me anxious?

0:15.2

I think I'm being manipulated.

0:17.0

Someone told me you could live with half a brain.

0:19.4

This is Do You Fucking Mind, Mindset Hacks for a Badass Life, hosted by me, Alexis Fernandez.

0:26.1

All right, welcome everyone.

0:27.7

Welcome to the episode of today.

0:29.9

Now, this is an episode that I'm actually really, really excited to bring to you because it is something that I think so many of us have experienced definitely myself, especially when I

0:41.4

was younger. And it's something that's really prevalent in like pop culture and films. And it kind

0:46.5

of really normalizes this feeling of limerance, which is what I'm talking about, as being love.

0:52.0

So we're going to be breaking down the difference between limerence versus love,

0:57.4

what limerence feels like, how it can be so intense, where it can differ from love.

1:02.2

And you can also understand how you can have a lot of limerent behaviors,

1:06.5

but it actually end up being love, or it can just be straight up limerance

1:09.6

and why it's so difficult

1:11.7

to deal with it when, you know, the relationship doesn't unfold the way you want it to unfold

1:17.3

and when you are experiencing liberance to someone who does not reciprocate the feelings

1:23.6

and why it is so difficult to get over it. I recently did an interview, I interviewed

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