romantic obsession
All-consuming amorous fixation
Romantic obsession is an intense, consuming fixation on another person as an object of desire.
Unlike ordinary attraction or even passionate love, obsession implies something unhealthy—the inability to stop thinking about someone, often despite rejection or absence of a real relationship: His romantic obsession with his coworker was ruining his marriage.
The term suggests the obsessed person has lost perspective and possibly contact with reality.
- possessivenessExcessive attachment to ownership
- infatuationShort-lived intense attraction
- jealousyResentful desire for another's advantages
- erotomaniaDelusion of being loved
- longingIntense, persistent desire
fixation · stalking · limerence · burning desire · idealization · one true love · codependency · toxic relationship · overcommunication · unrequited love · emotional manipulation · tunnel vision · surveillance · fatal attraction · love songs · isolation · euphoria · power imbalance
- unhealthy attachmentclinginess, codependency, enmeshment, clingy, neediness
- attachment issuesattachment disorder, anxious attachment, attachment issues, attachment anxiety, avoidant attachment
romantic obsessionindifference
Lack of interest
passing fancy · emotional detachment · nonchalance · apathy · disinterest