Pseudolove is falling in Love with your beliefs, your expectations, your ideas about Love. It is being in Love with the idea of being in Love.

It is falling in Love with thoughts, images, feelings you associate with what you think Love is.

Pseudolove makes you think that what you are feeling is real, that what you are hearing is true, that what you are seeing is proof.

Consequently, pseudolove makes you feel you have everything you have always wanted in a relationship.

Pseudolove makes you believe he completes you; that you are nothing without him; it leads you to think you are with an angel.

Pseudolove feels glorious at first. It feels spectacular enough to compel you to go against the World.

Pseudolove is manipulative, arrogant, controlling and unfair. Pseudolove is always suspicious and promotes pessimism. Pseudolove is urgently and vigorously self-protecting.

Pseudolove is tied to conditions and looks for reasons to care. Pseudolove gives in order to receive and pushes your personal boundaries. Pseudolove is not boring, it is dramatic and theatrical.

Narcissistic personality disordered pseudolovers believe in the power of their own falsity. They are blind to their own flaws, faults and vulnerability.

Since they cannot see themselves as they truly are, they are unable to see others except as projections of their own fears, insecurities, weaknesses. They are only able to see others as extensions of themselves.

When you are in narcissistic pseudolove, you lose your Self. You lose your connection to your values. You feel disconnected to your body. You feel you are losing your mind. You feel confused. You feel insecure. You feel guilty.

You think everything bad about the relationship is your fault. You feel anxious. You feel fear. You feel frustrated. You feel helpless and powerless.

Narcissistic pseudolove is a roller coaster ride of emotions. Narcissistic pseudolove is draining, selfish, exhausting; it is not kind; it is impatient; it is aggressive.

It wants what it wants right now and does not care how it gets what it wants as long as it does, even if someone gets hurt.

Narcissistic pseudolove envies, unethical, cold and distant. Narcissistic pseudolove is constantly filled with rage and lies.

Narcissistic pseudolove chronically deceives, hides the truth and delights in morbidity, misery and wrongdoing.

Narcissistic pseudolove always wants to get the upper-hand, is obsessively jealous and abusive (verbally, emotionally, mentally, physically, financially, psychologically, and sexually).

Obsession for the false self is the root of pseudolove. This false Self is nurtured when you see your self, when your identity and the image you project is dependent on something outside of you.

The false Self has an obsessive and forceful need to be right, against all odds, the truth and facts.

The false Self is fear-based. It is constantly afraid to fail; to be wrong; to face reality; to be thought of and seen as imperfect.

The false Self says and does things according to what everybody else says and thinks is right. The false self is nurtured through denial, manipulation, lies, and rigorous beliefs.

When you see your Self from other people’s eyes; when you appreciate your Self from the standards of others; when your opinion of your self is based on the judgments of others.

When you base your worth on how people, places and events deem you worthy; you are setting yourself up to fall in pseudolove.

Pseudolove happens when you see someone not as who or what he is but what you think he should be.

When you look at someone through the eyes of pseudolove, you see him not as he appears but how you want him to be.

Ameno was written by new-age artist Eric Lévi. The lyrics are written in Pseudo-Latin, i.e. sounding like Latin but are in fact deliberately devoid of any exact meaning. The vocals are performed by Guy Protheroe and Harriet Jay.

Eric Lévi played keyboards and programmed it, whereas Philippe Manca played lead guitar, bass and drums. The choir rendition is by the English Chamber Choir.