Lonesome Loser | May 12, 2009
I’ve been surfing the net and finding there’s a lot of bad advice out there about unrequited love. The superficial or manifest level of communication tends to go something like “Gee, that’s too bad. It’s so painful. This isn’t really love, it’s limerence. It’s nothing to be ashamed of, but it is a place you [...]
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Lonesome Loser | March 8, 2009
The intention of this website is to explore the nature of unrequited love from both experiential and social psychological perspectives. It includes articles and discussions of unrequited love from a non-pathologized viewpoint, links and a bookstore (via amazon.com) containing recommendations that might be of help or interest to the unrequited lover, an open invitation to [...]
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Lonesome Loser | January 3, 2009
This is the first in a series of “discussion questions” intended to provoke a conversation from readers. Please leave comments… Is unrequited love the same thing as a crush? If so, how are they the same? If not, how are they different? Personally, I would say they are different, that a crush involves more idealization, [...]
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