Selfless Unrequited Love. Serotonin-enhancing antidepressants blunt the emotions in unrequited lovers undergoing therapy, including the elation of romance, and suppress obsessive thinking, which is a critical component of romance. When you inhibit this brain system, you can inhibit the unrequited lover’s well-being and possibly their genetic future. As discussed in my blog Evolution and Unrequited […]
Evolution and Unrequited Love. A term called ‘frustration attraction’ indicates that getting dumped by your partner makes you love the person harder. Most of us have been dumped by someone we really love and an equal number also dumped someone who really loved them. ‘Abandonment rage’ and ‘frustration depression’ are two more terms that may
The Brain Function in Unrequited Love It is believed that romantic love developed to focus an individual’s mating energy on just one partner, while attachment works to tolerate this individual long enough to raise children together. If you consider this system carefully for a moment, you will realise that it directly guides us in forming
Science, Brain, Attraction, Love and Sex. In a study published in 2002, a famous anthropologist and a multi-disciplinary team of experts studied 40 young people madly in love – half with unrequited love, the other half with love rejected. When put into an MRI with a photo of their sweetheart and one of an acquaintance,
Worsening Unrequited Love. The feeling of obsessive jealousy is extremely unpleasant, but you cannot do anything about it until you accept that you are jealous of people who are closer than you are to your object of desire! Accepting it requires a lot of courage, and mostly you are not even willing to do it.
Therapeutic Unrequited Love. The ‘Let Go’ method is a therapeutic technique and a powerful path to personal development. Basically, it teaches some easy steps to forgiveness. It is a path of practical spirituality. It helps you in your self-improvement; in fact, it can be used as a personal development plan in itself! It does not
Inner Peace in Unrequited Love. In the spiritual sense, the let go method, when successfully completed, leaves an unrequited lover at total peace with himself. A state where you are able to love unconditionally; where there is inner silence, spaciousness, awareness, happiness and an experience of your true identity, your soul identity. As discussed in
Timeless Unrequited Love. Going through a breakup and getting over a relationship are the same as recovering from unrequited love. For the unrequited lover, it was a relationship throughout. If you are reading this, you are on the path to getting over the feeling. As discussed in my blog Rediscover Yourself in Unrequited Love, now
Rediscover Yourself in Unrequited Love. In spite of being hurt and lonely in unrequited love, try to remain positive. Unrequited love can often lead to rage, bitterness and anger. These will most certainly make you a very unhappy person and not very nice to be with, either. As I have mentioned in my blog Take
Take Time in Unrequited Love. When you find yourself lost in unrequited love, take a little time for some self-discovery and get reacquainted with your true self! When you start to realize who you really are, you also begin to realize all that you have to offer. Which is a lot! You remember how important