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 [...]
Lonesome Loser | April 21, 2009
Great question! Not an easy one to answer. I’m working on an online quiz for love vs. crush, but it’s still in development. Scientifically, there is no clear or universally accepted definition for being in love. However, there is a universally observable phenomenon that is variously known as a crush, infatuation, being in love, romantic [...]
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 [...]
Lonesome Loser | January 21, 2009
You know that old adage that goes something like “if you dissect a frog in order to understand it better, it isn’t a frog anymore, just a bunch of lifeless pieces.” I believe this is the case with romantic love, as well. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. This doesn’t mean [...]
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, [...]
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.
: D.,I know you will never love me back and that hurts so much !
: Sharon. I can't have you and I can't get you out of my mind. Its kills me.
: I can't say your name because it hurts too much. I'll call you G because that's a nickname. I went by there today [...]
: mji even though I shouldn't
: :Whistling:
: To all my unrequited crushes, I shall name ye, LOL; Ben Michael Matthew Kieran Hadleigh Shelton Michael (LOL, a second Michael) Marie (LOL - it was a high school thing) Simon Nikolaos Tim Sam Nameless Perfect Fantasy [...]
: Angie - now and always, no matter how far away I am, you are everything I wanted, I wish it could have been the [...]
: Matthew. Don't really know him at all, but i see him for 2 wks of every month. I'd love to know what he thinks of [...]
: ... :| ...
: Lauren. She's the love of my life. But we're only best friends. At least we're that close. "I want to tell you, I feel hung up [...]
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