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.

The film examines the various shades of unrequited love and teenage passion, with Dhanush's explosive Hindi cinema debut, a haunting score by A.R. Rahman, and Aanand L. Rai's grounded directing ...

Like all genres, a good deal of country love songs surround the common theme of unrequited love. It’s harder to name an artist who doesn’t have one than to name an artist who does have one. It ...

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.