Lonesome Loser | December 30, 2008
Hi, it’s good to see folks visiting this website about the experience of unrequited love. This is meant to be a participatory discussion, not a monologue. Please leave comments! You don’t have to give personal information to comment. The system will ask for your name and an email address but you can just make stuff [...]
Lonesome Loser | July 30, 2010
This is perhaps one of the most well-known stories of unrequited love. It’s helpful in terms of communicating the experience of unrequited love or limerence to others, as most everyone (at least in U.S. culture) is familiar with the story and we can all empathize with Charlie Brown’s longing, fear of not being good enough, [...]
Lonesome Loser | July 30, 2010
The perspectives of the Loved Ones are discussed and will continue to be discussed in various posts on this blog, but this post in particular is intended to be the more matter-of-fact, “How to Handle a Declaration of Unrequited Love, For Dummies” version. First, you need to decide (and this shouldn’t be difficult) whether the [...]
Lonesome Loser | May 22, 2010
Funny how we hear things we want to hear, and ignore things we wish weren’t true. It’s human nature, we all do it for any number of reasons. The dual lenses of denial and rose-coloring in the bifocal glasses that we all use is particularly distorting in unrequited love. Loved Ones say things we over [...]
Lonesome Loser | May 12, 2010
Are you in love or in like? Is there a difference between friendship and love? Social science research says, yes, there is a difference. The link “View Survey” below will open a survey on this page that may help you decide if what you feel for a particular person is more similar to being “in [...]
Please feel free to contact me at LONESOME LOSER*, I'd love to hear from you. I will make every effort to answer each email.
*This moniker sounds considerably more pathetic than I actually feel, but I just couldn't resist the tongue-in-cheek description.
: I offered you the best that I could offer. It wasn't enough for you. My love lasts forever, but now, I will no longer act on it, I will [...]
: 4 years and i still feel as strongely as i did when i first met you.now that highschool is over tomorrow may be the last [...]
: Carol, 14 years older than I am. I'm her intern and I shouldn't have fallen for her, but I did...
: I love you so much Michael....so very much.
: Kelly. The earth has moved nearly fifteen billion miles through space since the hour you called me and told me you did not love me, [...]
: I love you very much, Marilyn. Despite the circumstances (as I continue to struggle with it for the past four years), I will always [...]
: I love you Deborah. And I'm willing to live out my life as a spinster if that'll keep you happy.
: What does she give you that I cant?
: Brian, I love you. I know you felt something for me at one point but I didn't see it then and I only have myself [...]
: Lizzie, you just have no idea. I never gave up. I've lost count of the number of times my heart has been stabbed, but I [...]
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