Limerence
LIM-er-uhnss
n.Involuntary, obsessive infatuation; the state of being colonised by a person who may not know it.
Coined by psychologist Dorothy Tennov, 1979Established psychological concept
Studied in the literature since Tennov's 1979 work, but not a diagnosis in DSM-5 or ICD-11.
Evidence
Here is what Sam had, after five months, in the way of evidence.
One: at the December thing, she had said you're the only one here I can talk to — verbatim, he was certain of the verbatim — while holding a paper cup, standing closer than the room required.
Two: she used a full stop with everyone else and did not use one with him. He had checked. He had, on a Tuesday he was not proud of, gone back through eleven months of a group channel to establish this, and the finding held.