Love and Limerence

The illustrious and influential Sigmund Freud dismissed romantic love as merely sex urge blocked. Pioneer sexologist Havelock Ellis provided his famous and entirely incorrect mathematical formula: sex plus friendship. (It seems to be neither.)

No matter where I am or what I am doing, I am not safe from your spell. At any moment, the image of your face smiling at me, of your voice telling me you care, or of your hand in mine, may suddenly fill my consciousness rudely pushing out all else.

I want you.
I want you forever, now, yesterday, and always. Above all, I want you to want me.

It is not love. It is the force of evolution
expressed as the compulsion for the particular,
this particular one above all others. Often,
it is called love. . . .

It is not love. It is the force of evolution
expressed as the compulsion for the particular,
this particular one above all others. Often,
it is called love. . . .