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According to Tennov, there are at least two types of love: a ) limerence, which she describes as ( inter alia ) " loving attachment "; and b ) " loving affection ," the bond that exists between an individual and his or her parents and children.

She notes however that one form may evolve into the other: ' those whose limerence was replaced by affectional bonding with the same partner might say ..." We were very much in love when we married ; today we love each other very much "'.

The distinction is comparable to that drawn by ethologists ' between the pair-forming and pair-maintaining functions of sexual activity ', just as ' the attachment of the attachment theorists is very similar to the emotional reciprocation longed for in Tennov's limerence, and each is linked to sexuality '.