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 | 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, [...]
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Lonesome Loser | 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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Lonesome Loser | June 17, 2009
It’s interesting to notice how often we indirectly communicate romantic love and/or sexual attraction when we’re not really aware of doing so. For example, facial expressions you aren’t aware of, standing too close to your Loved One, or avoiding standing too near them. Maybe you talked too much about your Loved One with friends or [...]
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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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Tags: definition, description, limerence, nature of love, romantic love, symptoms of being in love, unrequited love