Unrequited Love and Loneliness. As extensively as I have been discussing unrequited love, you may have been wondering why I have yet to mention loneliness in the discussion. Isn’t love a perfectly good solution to loneliness? Does that go to say that all forms of love are helpful in getting over loneliness? While love is the […]
The Nature of Unrequited Love. Unrequited love is deemed to be of a higher metaphysical and ethical status than sexual or physical attractiveness alone. The idea of unrequited love initially stems from the Platonic tradition that love is a desire for beauty-a value that transcends the particularities of the physical body. For Plato, the love
Happens, In Unrequited Love. When love is reciprocated, it weaves stories of desire, sexual attraction and bliss. But what happens when it’s not? No matter what we may do, some people may not want us in the way we want them: as a date, a boyfriend, a partner, a wife. What do we do when
Unrequited Love Bitterness. The moments of unreturned, unrequited love or lust may be tough. They may even feel vulnerable, gut-wrenchingly sad, lonely, confusing and bare. Yet they are a tough reality of togetherness and separateness. And yet all of us keep falling in and out of unrequited all the time. There is not one person
Conceptual Considerations of Unrequited Love. Presuming unrequited love has a nature, it should be, to some extent at least, describable within the concepts of language. However, as philosophically beguiling as unrequited love itself is, so is what’s meant by an appropriate language of description. Such considerations provide the analysis of unrequited love with its first
The Agony of Unrequited Love. It is interesting how the world seldom stops to think about people getting brutalized by unrequited love or relationships in general, but it happens all the time. An important part of creating a stable vehicle for any relationship is to have a balanced relationship with yourself. Starting to see how
Unrequited Friend Love. It’s hard when you are faced with a situation when you think someone is “just a friend”, but once he changes his Facebook status to “In a relationship”, you realize you’re not as happy for him as you should be. Falling in love is sometimes messy, amazingly messy! Especially so when you
Future Relationships and Unrequited Love. You’ve met someone new or suddenly the feeling is different for an age-old friend. You click instantly or the friendships feels like it’s growing to a different feeling. You start spending a lot of time together and quickly your friendship leaves you wondering how you could you not have romantic
Healthy Relationships vs Unrequited Love. It’s no good pretending that any romantic relationship has a future if the individuals involved don’t feel the same way about each other. I’m not a therapist or relationship expert, but after nearly a decade of studying unrequited love relationships, I have learnt a few things about what keeps long-term
Neediness in Unrequited Love. If the other person is not in love with you anymore, or never was, you are actually wasting your time in trying to sort things out. In this situation, you need to accept the fact and move on. You don’t want to be an unrequited lover and hang on for no