Definition of Unrequited Love

Love for someone is generally rewarding as long as the feeling is mutual. If the passion for another person is not reciprocal, it is an unrequited love.

It is associated with a series of emotions intense: frustration, sadness, obsession, anger and helplessness. Obviously, this peculiar combination has a component emotional destructive that can become heartbreaking.

What can we do when we love but are not loved?

Facing unrequited love is painful and bitter. While there is no surefire recipe for overcoming these types of situations, there are some considerations that can be helpful. In the first place, it is convenient to rationally accept that the loved one does not love us. Second, you have to analyze why we feel hurt by the situation. On the other hand, try not to despair.

So that the emotional disenchantment does not intensify, it is desirable to physically distance oneself from the loved one and seek some kind of distraction. On synthesis, faced with this problem, it is necessary to implement strategies that help us recover the emotional balance.

A classic theme in literature

In the novel Romantic is about the love issue from multiple perspectives and one of them is, precisely, unrequited love. Characters who experience this passion are deeply marked. In both real life and fiction, unrequited love is a variant of impossible love.

The character of Don Quixote falls in love with a humble peasant woman named Aldonza Lorenzo, but in the delusional fantasy of the noble knight she is known by another name, Dulcinea del Toboso.

What is striking about this love story is that Dulcinea is actually a product of the overflowing imagination of the protagonist of the novel

In the novel "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens the protagonist is a young man named Pip who falls intensely in love with an attractive and haughty young woman, Estella. He is an orphan of very humble origin and she is the adoptive daughter of a wealthy lady. For Pip, her lover is someone inaccessible because of her beauty and her status Social.

In William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" we find the antithesis of unrequited love. Despite this, the two characters have a tragic end because their love is full of insurmountable difficulties.

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