Erotomania can be understood as a condition in which a person believes that he or she is in an amorous (romantic) relationship with a person of higher social rank who is the first to fall in love and to make advances. There are a number of associated but ancillary themes, namely that the object of the love is unable to be happy or to have a sense of self-esteem without the subject; the object of love is free or his or her marriage is invalid; the object attempts to make contact with the subject, has indirect communication and exerts continuous surveillance and protection of the subject by means of significant resources; there is universal support for the relationship; and the contradictory or paradoxical responses of the object of love towards the subject can be explained away (de Clérambault, 1942). It is also thought that the affective triad of hope, love and pride is always present.