Attachment theory has had quite a journey. Developed by John Bowlby in the mid-twentieth century to describe how early bonds with caregivers shape a child's sense of safety in the world, it was later extended by researchers Mary Ainsworth and Mary Main into a framework that has now found its way onto every relationship podcast and first-date conversation. You have almost certainly heard the terms: secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganised. You may well have already decided whic

Have you ever found yourself completely consumed by thoughts of another person? Not just enjoying someone's company or hoping a relationship might go somewhere, but thinking about them almost constantly, replaying conversations, and feeling your whole mood shift depending on whether they noticed you that day. If that sounds familiar, there is a word for what you experienced. It is called limerence. What is limerence? The term was coined by psychologist Dorothy Tennov in her 1