Limerence has psychological properties akin to passionate love, but in Tennov's conception, limerence begins outside of a relationship and before the person experiencing it knows for certain whether it's reciprocated. Tennov observes that limerence is therefore frequently unrequited and argues that some type of situational uncertainty is required for the intense mental preoccupation to occur. Uncertainty could be, for example, barriers to the fulfillment of a relationship such as physical or emotional distance from the LO, or uncertainty about how the LO reciprocates the feeling. Some people may also fear intimacy so that they distance themselves and avoid a real connection.
limerence has psychological properties akin to passionate love but in tennov's conception limerence begins outside of a relationship and before the person experiencing it knows for certain whether it's reciprocated tennov observes that limerence is therefore frequently unrequited and argues that some type of situational uncertainty is required for the intense mental preoccupation to occur uncertainty could be for example barriers to the fulfillment of a relationship such as physical or emotional distance from the lo or uncertainty about how the lo reciprocates the feeling some people may also fear intimacy so that they distance themselves and avoid a real connection