Hi!

| 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 [...]

Like or Love?

| 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 “Like or Love Survey” link-button 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 [...]

The Definition is Yours

| 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

| 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, [...]

Slightly Drunk Post

| November 27, 2009

Please forgive the overly personal nature of this post.  I’m trying not to re-start my personal blog, I need it to be finished at some point, but I’m really feeling the desire to write from a personal perspective the last few days. I’ve recently returned from Thanksgiving dinner at my (former) in-laws, while (ex)spouse is [...]

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