Come to think of it, infatuation has become a popular model for love itself, and at this very moment, infatuation fever is directing the most critical intimate choices of an enormous sub-culture of singles. Before you rush to your next rapture, consider some of the following viewpoints on this most popular of all feeling states. Think about what it really is to be infatuated. Plainly, the word itself is officially defined as a kind of affliction. Most of us recognize it as a state in which a person's normal ability to think clearly and act rationally are flung aside with suspicious eagerness.
Desire focuses on a particular someone and suddenly nothing matters but that compelling attraction.
The dictionary strongly suggests that the overt result of infatuation is a reduction in mental capacity. Nonetheless, there must be something about infatuation that accounts for the hold it has over our imaginations . . . Most of us know the feelings of infatuation from direct personal experience. Certainly we've all been introduced to Love Fever through stories told in pajama party whispers, fairy tales, the anguished confidences of dear friends, through cartoons and fine literature, B-movies and cinematic art, TV sitcoms and soapoperas, and romantic novels. Wherever and however reported, though, the sensate phenomenona are remarkably similar.