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 [...]
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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, [...]
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Lonesome Loser | March 30, 2010
So, someone has declared their undying love for you. And you don’t feel the same. How uncomfortable! Someone saying they are in love with you when you don’t love them in return is an experience most of us wish we would never have. However, the truth is that it is actually an experience that most [...]
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Lonesome Loser | December 24, 2009
I just want to argue for taking all this discussion, and every “expert” opinion on unrequited love (as well as romantic love in general) with several grains of salt. Basically, deciding whether you are in love or not is your decision. There is no surefire way to verify “for real” whether it’s love or not. [...]
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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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