So use that limerence period wisely. If you're aiming to keep things on a friendship or recreational level, it's wiser to keep a little emotional distance and not to completely surrender to the hormonal rush. In either case, the more difficult challenge will be properly managing the relationship as the limerence fades. Now let's talk about love. Love and romance and limerence are different things, though they often overlap.
Mutual love can begin with limerence, or it can develop gradually in a non-sexual friendship.
If you are fortunate, and open to the possibility, your sex partner and you will come to love each other. Two people can need each other without actually finding each others' happiness essential to their own. In codependence, the partners project their unresolved problems on each other and lock each other into limiting roles. An essential theme in relationship management, therefore, is to build love and avoid codependence. Unfortunately, sexual bonding can serve to reinforce either.