Original sentence: Affection and fondness exist only as a disposition towards another person, irrespective of whether those feelings are reciprocated, whereas limerence demands requitement.Limerence is much longer-lived than feelings such as "crushes", "infatuation," "passionate love," and "puppy love", enduring for months or even years.Love involves concern for the other person's welfare and feeling, while limerence does not.Sex with the object is neither essential nor sufficient to an individual experiencing limerence, unlike one experiencing sexual attraction.Tennov differentiates between limerence and other emotions by asserting that:
Edited sentence: Affection and fondness have no objective; they simply exist as feelings in which the lover is disposed toward actions to which the recipient might or might not respond.In contrast, limerence demands return.Interestingly, from Tennov’s survey of 500 people, only 73 percent of the females and 51 percent of the males agreed with the statement “I enjoy sex best when I am in love with my partner.It is also distinguished it by its focus on a single individual and its predictable pattern of response to external events.It is further differentiated between itself and romantic love, in the sense of concern for the other's well-being, as well as between it and sexual attraction.Limerence is also not sexual attraction.Limerence is distinct from short-lived emotions such as "crushes", "infatuation," "passionate love," or "puppy love", and has been described as enduring for months, or even years.Love, in most of its meanings, involves concern for the other person's welfare and feeling.Other aspects of the limerent's life, including love, are sacrificed on behalf of the all-consuming need.Sex is neither essential nor adequate to satisfy the limerent need.While limerence has been called love, it is not love