This cultural script teaches us to see love as a challenge, something to fight for, even if the odds are against us. Unfortunately, this can trap us in a cycle of unrequited love.

At times, I even found them sharply contradictory. No surprise, really. For there are few subjects as peculiarly subjective, or ambiguous, as love in general—and unrequited love in particular.

This unrequited love story is going to be loads of fun, partly because the drama itself seems to know how silly unrequited love can be. In fact, it starts with a funny little misunderstanding.

Poets have written about it. Singers sing about it. Even Kate Winslet muses about it in the 2006 movie The Holiday: “And then there’s another kind of love: the cruelest kind,” she says ...

Situation selection: This strategy involves avoiding cues and triggers (e.g., pictures, conversations, places, etc.) that remind you of your unrequited love interest.