Temporary Post

Lonesome Loser | March 7, 2010

Posts that are “coming soon” (as soon as I can find some time to craft them). Please offer any other suggestions either as a comment to this post, or email/contact me.
Survey/Questionnaire on being in love vs. being in like.
Survey/Questionnaire on level of passion you experience for Loved One.
Discussion of Dante, the original unrequited lover.
Discussion [...]

The Definition is Yours

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.  [...]

Echoes

Lonesome Loser | November 28, 2009

Here’s a post for those of us who like questionnaires, charts, graphs, all the various accoutrements of science that make us feel things are more official.
Briefly, attachment theory is a psychological theory of relationships that suggests our relationship styles with parental figures in early infancy predict our relationship styles as adults.  In other words, our [...]

Rabbits or Rapture?

Lonesome Loser | September 23, 2009

Did you ever go to a magic show when you were younger?  You know the rabbit out of the hat trick?  The magician stands behind a table covered with a red cloth, an old-fashioned top hat is shown to be empty, then laid upside down on the table.  The magician waves his magic wand over [...]

“Unrequited Love Isn’t Real”

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 can [...]

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