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Sexual limerence for ex

37 replies

BlushofFrench · 24/04/2025 05:34

Does it count as limerence if it is an ex?

We were together only a handful of times - 7 weekends.

He gave me the honeymoon period.

During the course of one month, a stranger gradually appeared.

My thoroughbred exciting smiling lovely date gradually disappeared.
Until finally, someone I didn’t recognise took over.

The stranger had a different voice, diminished, huffifng and puffing quietly with displeasure about who knows what.
The smiles were gone forever.
There were deep front lines I had not seen before.
The softness and the beauty was gone from his face.
He seemed to change colour, too… like a tan that slowly fades, he also appeared worn and filled with barely concealed ill will for not just me, but for everyone, including, including child relatives.
He appeared to be fed up with the world in general.
Simple tasks were mentioned as though they were an intricately planned expedition to Everest.

The light that was briefly there was gone.

Meeting him file me with inexplicable tightness in my chest and a heavy dark almost rotten massive cloud of deep grey anxiety.

The way he looked at me was indecipherable, I saw him one morning staring at me intently while I slept… I can only liken it to how Sherlock Holmes looked at a particularly tough riddle within a puzzle with perhaps a young wild unpredictable lion inside it.

No one has ever looked at me like that before.
I’m an open book, if anything I’m too outgoing and transparent.
I try to be a decent person and I do not have any skeletons in my closet.
That does not mean there are not things I need to work on, but I let it all hang out and I’m certainly not mysterious as you can tell from my sharing and interactive post.

I began to realise I does not know the people around him, that is because he is constantly thinking of himself and his own needs and how to serve them.

He is not openly nasty, but I realised he was enjoying giving me a semi silent treatment and thinly veiled passive aggressive nagging.

I could he was gazing upon me with hostility, he tried to hide it, but I could feel the waved micro aggressions and the hint of a sort of dark energy.

He think he was preparing me for psychological abuse and the things he Negev me on were my best very small privileges I had which he did no, and I think that dark energy was mostly jealousy, seething, I think those things he focused on about me made him feel inadequate, although they were nothing special and other have it better,

I began to dislike ly him very quickly and jumped ship at light speed. I have blocked him on every single thing.

The point of my post is
Does it count as LIMERENCE if it is an ex?
We were together only a handful of times - 7 weekends.

He made love to me in a way I didn’t dream possible, and I find myself longing for a person I learned to dislike and lost respect for, when I wrongly look at videos of him, he almost makes my skin crawl, yet the overwhelming desire remains.

What has he done to ?

I am so confused and upset with myself, but I cannot help it.
He made love to me like he loved me. He asked me exactly what I like and gave it to me in spades, I lost any inhibitions I had with him. Our bodies fit like two pieces of one whole. He felt it to, we were both shaken and Euphoric.

What the fuck is that?

I want rid of him, he is like a virus that has overtaken my mind and body.

Please, I need some comfort and reassurance and for someone to explain all this to me.

OP posts:
Lurkingandlearning · 25/04/2025 07:29

Girlmom35 · 24/04/2025 08:54

I think you would be getting a lot more replies if you kept your post a bit more 'to the point', rather than filling it up with all these embellished descriptions. It feels like struggling through a literary novel just to decipher the message you're trying to get across. Most people won't bother doing that.

To get to your question. Does it matter whether you call it limerence or not?
How long ago did things end?

I was going to say, creative writing exercise or MN post, pick a lane.

LePetitMaman · 25/04/2025 07:31

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Addictedtohotbaths · 25/04/2025 07:32

He sounds like a narcissist who are often very good at sex as it’s a way to hook you in, so it worked with him.

Bumblebeestiltskin · 25/04/2025 07:36

Girlmom35 · 24/04/2025 08:54

I think you would be getting a lot more replies if you kept your post a bit more 'to the point', rather than filling it up with all these embellished descriptions. It feels like struggling through a literary novel just to decipher the message you're trying to get across. Most people won't bother doing that.

To get to your question. Does it matter whether you call it limerence or not?
How long ago did things end?

Agree. I gave up at...young wild unpredictable lion. 😂

Headingtowardsdivorce · 25/04/2025 07:42

Please, I need some comfort and reassurance and for someone to explain all this to me.

When you have great sex, chemicals are released in your brain, making you feel amazing. You described this as euphoric.

So basically, great sex is like a drug and you want more of it. Unfortunately for you, the person who gave you the great sex is not a great person so you have sensibly dumped them.

Now you are going cold turkey from your drug. You'll just have to hold tight and see it through. Eventually it will fade to a memory.

Mischance · 25/04/2025 07:43

Blimey! War and Peace has got nothing on this!
Why do you have to label this? ... you've just got the hots for him.

category12 · 25/04/2025 07:43

Crikey, OP didn't come on here for critique on her writing, it's the relationship topic.

Stop being such arseholes. If you don't like the way the post is written, just move on.

OP, I think you need to stop feeding the obsession. Block your own access to his videos if you keep going back to look and don't have the willpower.

BitOutOfPractice · 25/04/2025 07:47

Because great sex is intoxicating and fabulous

Though to be honest I’d gaze upon you with hostility if you spoke to me how you write.

Lighteningstrikes · 25/04/2025 07:59

Ignore the spiteful crows.

He sounds screwed up. Possibly on drugs.
What was the final straw that made you end the relationship?

Elffyba · 25/04/2025 08:51

Can you be sexually limerent for an ex?
Some people say they are limerent for an ex-boyfriend or even an ex-husband because they define limerence by the obsessive thoughts of someone regardless of history. I think you're stuck on an ex than limerent because to me limerence should be about those we've never ever been in a romantic or sexual relationship with, we've never declared our feelings to, it's totally obsessive, baseless and in the dark. If we've dated, it's inability to move on from an ex. If we did disclose feelings and they rejected us then it's unrequited love. So my view is no. Limerence isn't even sexual in my understanding.. but I'm not the limerence police and if you feel this is what it is then who am I to stop you?

Explain it all to me?
It sounds like you're a very sensitive and romantic person, it's easy to be swept up because your mind is doing the heavy work of romanticising every detail and interaction. One of the hardest love lessons I learnt is that chemistry is not always mutual and chemistry does not make a relationship. I'm going to mention Twin Flames because if you're online, vulnerable after a break up or rejection it's easy to get sucked into 'Twin Flame' content online. I don't believe in twin flames, I think it's a dangerous concept that encourages delusions, disregard for consent, boundaries and autonomy and justifies stalking.

Moving forward
I'd advise you to replay the bad parts when you think of him instead of the good times. I would guess that you like poetry, and reading, so I encourage you to find comfort in hobbies such as journaling.
Some people find it cathartic to type and online post an anonymous letter that will never get sent
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnsentLetters/

If you'd like to talk more about limerence I suggest you try here https://www.reddit.com/r/limerence/

Lastly, your perfect partner won't make you feel like this. He will recognise you as the one and the relationship will feel easy and unconfusing. Please work on your boundaries. There were red flags which you overlooked, you need to define what is and isn't acceptable behaviour before they happen, e.g.: Mean to children or family, instant dump. Moody and uncommunicative, instant dump. There are 8 billion people on earth you do not to compromise on your hardlines. Compromise and flexibility can be on things that aren't redflag, that don't breach your boundaries. I can be pretty shallow admittedly, so ask yourself: if this behaviour was done by someone I don't find attractive would I see it as ok? If someone was treating my loved ones like this would I advise them to leave? If you have someone you look up to, ask if they would accept such treatment?

What this liaison has shown you is that you CAN find a sexual connection with a man and that it's clearly not enough to make a relationship. You probably have been working on accepting your body and sexuality before he came along, so take credit for this sexual exprience. Our mind plays a huge role in sex. You've unlocked something within yourself, he isn't some sex wizzard this is you allowing yourself to enjoy sex and you can feel it again with someone else. There really is plenty more fish in the sea!

BelfastBard · 25/04/2025 08:57

Lighteningstrikes · 25/04/2025 07:59

Ignore the spiteful crows.

He sounds screwed up. Possibly on drugs.
What was the final straw that made you end the relationship?

He sounds like he’s on drugs? Based on what?OPs verbose interpretation of the expression he had on his face which she somehow saw whilst being asleep?

ghostyslovesheets · 25/04/2025 11:24

He sounds like he’s on drugs? 🤔

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