Glamour | 06.11.2026 09:20
Every few weeks, it seems, there’s a new “dating trend” that’s really just an innocuous action with a random word attached to it: “benching”, “roaching”, “orbiting”... What does it all mean? Limerence, though – a word used to describe a sort of obsessive romantic infatuation; separate from real love, though the two are often indistinguishable to the individual experiencing it – is more well-worn than that. In fact, usage dates back to the ’60s and ’70s – long before there were so many ways to not text someone back that we needed a whole new vocabulary to describe it.
