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Do You F*cking Mind?

Limerence Vs Love How Obsession is Getting in the Way of you Finding Love (E)

Do You F*cking Mind?

Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach

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

4.9 • 914 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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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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0:00.0

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0:47.9

So today is an encore episode because I am going on maternity leave.

0:56.5

I have hand selected with my assistant, Shanai, we've hand selected episodes that we think will be like just honestly your favorite.

1:04.9

They're episodes that have either really great feedback or have been shared a lot amongst you guys or have been shared a lot

1:12.5

on socials and re-shared on stories. So we thought, you know, we'd bring back kind of the top

1:16.3

favourites or the ones that resonated the most with you guys. So I'm going on just three, well,

1:21.6

the podcast is going on three weeks of maternity leave. I am going on four months of maternity leave, but fear not,

1:30.4

fret not. I have created an entire back catalogue. So after these three weeks of encore episodes,

1:36.7

you will be receiving your normal dose of a Monday episode and a head noise episode and also some

1:42.1

really cool mini series scattered throughout up until

1:45.5

the end of the year and then I will come back for regular programming mid-January after kind

1:50.3

of the Christmas break. So without fucking around any further, enjoy the episode, the encore

1:56.4

episode of today. Love you guys so much. This is an episode that I'm actually really,

2:00.7

really excited to bring to you because it an episode that I'm actually really, really excited

2:01.2

to bring to you because it is something that I think so many of us have experienced

2:07.6

definitely myself, especially when I was younger. And it's something that's really prevalent

2:12.9

in like pop culture and films and it kind of really normalizes this feeling of limerance,

2:18.9

which is what I'm talking about, as being love. So we're going to be breaking down the difference

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