Unrequited Love or Life? Suicide statistics for young men and women suggest that those ancient physicians who considered love sickness a potentially fatal illness were right. I have written about this in detail in my previous blog Reminiscing Unrequited Love. It has been said that problematic relationships are the cause of most suicides and suicide […]
Reminiscing Unrequited Love. In my previous post Unrequited Lovers Falling Upward, I have discussed that while rejecters of unrequited love don’t necessarily have uniformly unpleasant experiences during the entire episode with an unsolicited lover, even if romantic attention from a lover was seen as unattractive or undesirable, most declared themselves flattered by such confessions, at
Unrequited Lovers Falling Upward. In my previous blog Falling Upwards in Unrequited Love, I have written about how, on the whole, rejecters have a more uniformly negative and emotionally unpleasant experience than the unrequited lovers, in spite of not having suffered any moments as intensely bad as the acute pain felt by broken-hearted lovers. Unrequited
Falling Upward in Unrequited Love. Unrequited love happens unknowingly, in all forms and types. Falling upwards in love involves one person falling in love with another generally held, even by the lover, to be completely out of their league. As if between individuals evenly matched socially and physically, unrequited love would not be bad enough,
Cinematic Psychiatry of Unrequited Love. Casablanca (1942), is a quintessential American movie depicting war-time love and romance. The movie is based on a stage play Everybody Comes to Rick’s, by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. Set during early World War II, it centres on an expatriate torn between love and virtue. Casablanca is a coastal
Impact of Cinema on Unrequited Lovers. In my previous blog Unrequited Love and Cinema, I have talked about the behaviours imposed by cinema about romantic relationships and how they affect lovers in real life, making it look normal for them to pursue someone who belongs to a completely different religious, social or financial background. This
Unrequited Love and Cinema. A boy and a girl meet at a bar, like each other, meet again the following day, and the following one, until a relationship begins. After six months they move in together. They introduce each other to their families and after two years, they get married. She hates some of his
Cyber Rescue. With the advent of the internet, came new sources of communication and ultimately the concept of cyber-love and online dating was born. In its infancy, online dating was limited to chat rooms, emailing and SMSing. At that time, chat rooms were largely populated, according to the media, by paedophiles and teenagers. However, with
Guiding Out. In my previous blog Step by Step, I have discussed about the importance of steering away from the object of your love, once you have realised that your love is never going to be reciprocated. Have faith that the intuition is strong enough to giving you deliverance. It talks to you through your
Step by Step. Among all kinds of love that you can experience in a lifetime, unrequited love can turn out to be the worst feeling and the best teacher. If you are reading this post, you probably already know what unrequited love is. If not, you can read more about it in my blog Effects