Limerence Deep Dive (Chapter 5 - Emotional Symptoms)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
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December 2, 2025
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00:00 Limerence in the wild
17:33 Background anxiety
24:51 Continuous tension and hyper anxiety
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deserving Listeners, this is Chapter 5 in my deep dive on Limerance. |
| 0:05.3 | My name is Dr. Kirk Honda. I'm a therapist and a professor. |
| 0:09.4 | So I want to tell you something that happened to me last night. |
| 0:12.5 | I was scrolling through Reddit, and I came across a post in which someone talked about a situation that happened in their life and someone in the |
| 0:24.0 | comment section had identified them as suffering from limerence. |
| 0:28.4 | And I wanted to share this with you as an example of how we might think about limerence |
| 0:35.3 | and also of trends moving forward. |
| 0:37.7 | So let me summarize, and this is from memory. |
| 0:41.5 | I don't have the posting from me. |
| 0:43.3 | I couldn't really find it. |
| 0:44.4 | So basically from my memory on Reddit, someone posted as a woman. |
| 0:50.6 | And she, by the way, I still have a cold. |
| 0:52.9 | I hope it's not bothering you if I sound a little funny. |
| 0:55.8 | But a woman made a post on Reddit saying that something had happened to her recently and |
| 1:02.5 | she was asking advice. |
| 1:04.2 | She said that she was out one night with friends at a bar and everyone was getting drunk |
| 1:08.2 | and everyone was significantly intoxicated, not like falling over, |
| 1:12.9 | but, you know, having fun. And she met a friend of a friend and they really hit it off. She was |
| 1:19.1 | really connecting with him. And he wanted to take it further that night, possibly getting physical |
| 1:25.6 | that night, you know, making out, something like that. |
| 1:28.1 | And she told him that she really liked him, but she didn't want to go too fast. |
| 1:33.6 | And so they just continued to socialize and they said good night and exchanged phone numbers, |
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