Smitten

Do you remember being called “boy crazy” or “smitten” as an adolescent? Did crushes take over your thoughts and dreams? Were you destroyed when your crushes didn’t like you back? And have you found adult relationships falling into similar patterns? Then this is the book for you! Without TMI, this book found me in the perfect moment to assist in making some big changes in how I approach romantic relationships. Bellamy breaks it down so even the least neuroscience-minded reader can understand what Dorothy Tennov defined in the 1970s: some people can be as addicted to love and limerence as another is to drugs or alcohol. Now that we can interview people as simply as sending them an email, Bellamy has opened up a new avenue for those who experience limerence to understand and work through it rather than be crushed by it. I have already recommended this book to several people in the mental health space.