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Anna Runkle

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Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

It wasn't about you. It wasn't really something you did. She was reacting to something that was completely in her mind or her heart about it, some memory or some projection. You didn't do that.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Yeah. Yeah. Chasing the good feeling. And everybody wants that good feeling. We need love. We need to feel connected to people. But people can get limerent even when they're married, obviously. They can be limerent when they're surrounded by options, just obsessed on one person.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Yeah. Yeah. Chasing the good feeling. And everybody wants that good feeling. We need love. We need to feel connected to people. But people can get limerent even when they're married, obviously. They can be limerent when they're surrounded by options, just obsessed on one person.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Yeah. Yeah. Chasing the good feeling. And everybody wants that good feeling. We need love. We need to feel connected to people. But people can get limerent even when they're married, obviously. They can be limerent when they're surrounded by options, just obsessed on one person.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And it's not just because of modern times either, because there's a lot of examples in literature like Dante and Beatrice and Heathcliff and Cathy, maybe mutually limerent at different times, but not the same time, from Wuthering Heights. So it's been around. Yeah, yeah. I know. See, we love that book because it's like, see, that's what it's like. It's like that. So it's been around.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And it's not just because of modern times either, because there's a lot of examples in literature like Dante and Beatrice and Heathcliff and Cathy, maybe mutually limerent at different times, but not the same time, from Wuthering Heights. So it's been around. Yeah, yeah. I know. See, we love that book because it's like, see, that's what it's like. It's like that. So it's been around.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And it's not just because of modern times either, because there's a lot of examples in literature like Dante and Beatrice and Heathcliff and Cathy, maybe mutually limerent at different times, but not the same time, from Wuthering Heights. So it's been around. Yeah, yeah. I know. See, we love that book because it's like, see, that's what it's like. It's like that. So it's been around.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

It's something that people have in their nature. And I don't think it's always because of trauma. I think kids show signs of it early. And I can't speak for everybody, but I just have an amazing sample of people who write me letters and they tell me about their life. It's like a little wheel of possibility personality types of things that happen to you and how you come out.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

It's something that people have in their nature. And I don't think it's always because of trauma. I think kids show signs of it early. And I can't speak for everybody, but I just have an amazing sample of people who write me letters and they tell me about their life. It's like a little wheel of possibility personality types of things that happen to you and how you come out.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

It's something that people have in their nature. And I don't think it's always because of trauma. I think kids show signs of it early. And I can't speak for everybody, but I just have an amazing sample of people who write me letters and they tell me about their life. It's like a little wheel of possibility personality types of things that happen to you and how you come out.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And I don't like to believe like every cause equals the same effect. But there's a really common denominator with people who are stuck on somebody and can't get over it with a lack of enough attention when they were kids. They didn't get seen as a person. They didn't get their personality kind of appreciated and validated like, oh, yeah, you love karate. Yeah. And that didn't happen.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And I don't like to believe like every cause equals the same effect. But there's a really common denominator with people who are stuck on somebody and can't get over it with a lack of enough attention when they were kids. They didn't get seen as a person. They didn't get their personality kind of appreciated and validated like, oh, yeah, you love karate. Yeah. And that didn't happen.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And I don't like to believe like every cause equals the same effect. But there's a really common denominator with people who are stuck on somebody and can't get over it with a lack of enough attention when they were kids. They didn't get seen as a person. They didn't get their personality kind of appreciated and validated like, oh, yeah, you love karate. Yeah. And that didn't happen.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And that may have affected things to do with neurological development. That's one of the most important discoveries about what's the problem with trauma in childhood is neurological development. There can be some holes there. And so there's just this weird thing. And sometimes, did you ever hear about this? It was a research experiment a long time ago and I learned about it in school.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And that may have affected things to do with neurological development. That's one of the most important discoveries about what's the problem with trauma in childhood is neurological development. There can be some holes there. And so there's just this weird thing. And sometimes, did you ever hear about this? It was a research experiment a long time ago and I learned about it in school.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

And that may have affected things to do with neurological development. That's one of the most important discoveries about what's the problem with trauma in childhood is neurological development. There can be some holes there. And so there's just this weird thing. And sometimes, did you ever hear about this? It was a research experiment a long time ago and I learned about it in school.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

You're younger than me, but there was a wire monkey and they tested whether a baby monkey separated from its mother would prefer to go to the fake fur covered wire monkey mother or just the wire frame that had a bottle in it. And the baby would starve to death to hold on to the furry wire model. Okay. I don't even know if that's true. Like nowadays we found out all that kind of stuff is bullshit.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

You're younger than me, but there was a wire monkey and they tested whether a baby monkey separated from its mother would prefer to go to the fake fur covered wire monkey mother or just the wire frame that had a bottle in it. And the baby would starve to death to hold on to the furry wire model. Okay. I don't even know if that's true. Like nowadays we found out all that kind of stuff is bullshit.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

You're younger than me, but there was a wire monkey and they tested whether a baby monkey separated from its mother would prefer to go to the fake fur covered wire monkey mother or just the wire frame that had a bottle in it. And the baby would starve to death to hold on to the furry wire model. Okay. I don't even know if that's true. Like nowadays we found out all that kind of stuff is bullshit.

Modern Wisdom
#935 - Crappy Childhood Fairy - Limerence Explained: Why Do We Get Addicted To People?

Just the need for love is so great that we will die for it. And I think that's what happens is that natural instinct to fall in love and have a mate is just sitting there going along like an engine without the right person in front of it.