Studying Rejection in Unrequited Love. Unrequited love has been a subject of study, as well as poetry, novels and cinema since time immemorial. Psychologists have done extensive studies and procedures effective at manipulating the sense of being accepted and rejected in human beings. The procedures show that most people assume intuitively that they would elicit […]
Psychology of Rejection in Unrequited Love. Nobody likes you. What now? ‘You may now leave the house.’ This often heard language of reality television relentlessly focuses on rejection. Apparently, while watching reality shows, the spectacle of people being evicted from a group or event appeals to the watching public in strange ways. People find rejection
Conscious Creation in Unrequited Love. It is difficult to sort out, and confusing. I know. But trust me, you are not the only one who is going through unrequited love. Perhaps, there are more people in unrequited love in this world than in a complete, reciprocal relationship. While it is certainly going to take time, breaking
Psychology of Suicide in Unrequited Love. Unrequited Love – The rationale behind suicide, which is the intentional taking of one’s own life, can be as simple or as complex as life itself. Any unrequited lover who commits suicide may see this act as a solution to a severe emotional or psychological dilemma. Depression is the
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