Unrequited and Requited Love. What a feeling! But can that first flash-dancing, knee-buckling sensation of falling in love endure? Feels like you are walking on air. “Turns out, I am mentally ill. Aspects of my current brain chemistry resemble that of a person with obsessive-compulsive disorder. I haven’t started turning the light switches on and […]
Unrequited Love and Infatuation. Limerence or infatuated love is a state of mind resulting from unrequited love. Although most people feel intense euphoria and experience the release of dopamine, oxytocin, and elevated levels of testosterone and oestrogen at the beginning of a relationship, these hormone levels eventually return to normal after six to twenty-four months. However, those who suffer from
Unrequited Love and Your Partner. I have always said in my articles that finding love in someone who doesn’t want to reciprocate the feeling is looking beyond the universe, because you are the universe; everything is within you. The best relationship is your relationship with yourself. The best experiences in life manifest with the highest
Limerence and Unrequited Love. The first time is always the worst. The worst fall, the most pain. It gets messy and passionate, even obsessive. We’re of course discussing the all-consuming and universal experience of unrequited love here. Several studies have been done to uncover the mechanisms that make our hearts tick. The triangular theory of love explains that we endure
Rebuilding Life in Unrequited Love. At the risk of presenting myself as completely insane, I once asked an unrequited lover, obsessed about a woman he worked with. He was finding night times impossible to deal with to “research the top twenty service stations catering for UK motorways north of London as rated by customers”. I
Unrequited Love or Crush? All of us grow up thinking the only love that counts as true love is the kind that lasts forever or is fully realized. The first thing a stranger will ask when you have a broken heart is ‘How long were you two together?’ Like if you were together longer, it
Unrequited Love and Loneliness. As the world gets more and more connected, it becomes easier to feel left out. Loneliness, in fact, is more dangerous than isolation because it increases a person’s mortality rate. Loneliness is a natural feeling that most people don’t want to experience. Do you often find yourself feeling that way? You’re
Outdated Unrequited Love. Most of us experience the pangs of unreturned affection at some point in our lives. But for some folks, unrequited love becomes obsessive; they come to feel that they can become complete and fulfilled only through union with the object of their longings. The danger is that they come to feel so without
Dating After Unrequited Love. Unrequited lovers end up doing things that cannot be considered sensible in any way, after facing rejection, the most difficult part of unrequited love. As discussed previously, psychologists have found that rejection only makes lovers worse. If it does not make them worse, it leaves them unaffected, at best. But it
Lighten Up in Unrequited Love. Treating your partner or beloved like a project that you need to work on, like something to ‘improve’, is disrespectful and can make the person feel like you don’t appreciate them for who they are or even know them at all. Not like all unrequited lovers try to change their