Back to finishing up Love and Limerance now that I’ve finished This I Believe. Chapter 7, “Limerance and Biology” begins with a few quotes throughout time commenting on the object of Love not being one that you get to choose. This should be a pretty meaningful chapter, specifically with my more recent ruminations of leveraging love or limerance to kick off a relationship and then using companionship and/or attachment in second gear. There exists this [social?] implication that eventually all relationships come to a point of “true love” where ones care for another motivates them rather than attraction or limerance.

She was definitely scared that I had fallen in love with her, and uncomfortable with the word “love” being used. I can appreciate that, I think I’ve been there, but it wasn’t anything she wanted to talk about. I’m still sort of dumb-founded when people ask if I’m willing to talk to them about a subject. I feel inside like I have a giant open sign blinking on my chest at all times and that it’s obvious that I am.