Love and Limerence is a psychology book in which Dorothy Tennov introduces the concept of limerence—an intense state of infatuation shaped by projection, uncertainty, and obsessive attention. Tennov explains how individuals can overlay desires, ideals, and expectations onto another person, often replacing the other’s reality with a constructed fantasy, and her framework clarifies why infatuation can feel both compelling and destabilising. This research gave me a conceptual foundation to extend a personal experience into a design enquiry, treating “projection” as a describable mechanism and translating an emotional state into a diagrammatic system with identifiable relationships and components.