Lonesome Loser | March 25, 2009
Yes! I have always felt (or hoped, really) that romantic love, including the sexual element, can last a lifetime. But the general message from society has been that it doesn’t last, it is replaced with a deep friendship-type love. Well, I found an article at the American Psychological Association website saying yes, indeed, romantic love [...]
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Lonesome Loser | January 17, 2009
(I need to reiterate that “The Naming Wall” is a place for us to name the person we are/were in love with, not a place to post quotes or stories. Please do post your personal stories, quotes, etc., as comments in response to regular posts.) Admit it. You’re in love or you have been in [...]
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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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Lonesome Loser | December 28, 2008
<A HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Funreqlove-20%2F8010%2F459e3a14-7b9f-44e4-ab24-5f7956cf08c9&Operation=NoScript” mce_HREF=”http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Funreqlove-20%2F8010%2F459e3a14-7b9f-44e4-ab24-5f7956cf08c9&Operation=NoScript”>Amazon.com Widgets</A> One loosely tied together prose-poetry offering follows: Unrequited She probably thinks some other professor is really great now, anyway. She’s the type. What type? The type who admires around indiscriminately. The intellectual’s whore. In some ways, the task for the would-be lover is to move from thinking this person is the [...]
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Lonesome Loser | December 28, 2008
Please help, if not in the name of love, at least in the interest of science. Please complete one or both of these anonymous surveys about your experiences with unrequited love. There is a survey on the experience of being in love with someone who does not love you back (survey for the would-be lover), [...]
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