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• Because in common parlance, ‘infatuation is extravagant or foolish love, an infatuated person, quite commonly, is someone who in over-valuing the beloved has mistaken beliefs concerning her or him’.^[2] Some consider that ‘perhaps infatuation can only be distinguished from romantic love in retrospect…others suggest that infatuation may be the first step towards love…can grow into a more mature love’^[3] - marks the first stage of a relationship before ‘a bumpy, but nonetheless inevitable, transition from romantic infatuation to mature intimacy’.^[4] In such a view, ‘lovers begin as prolifically inventive, producing enthralling illusions about each other…only to be disappointed into truth’.^[5]

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