Unrequited love can haunt anyone for many years or even for the rest of our lives. Somehow, there seems to be something romantic in all this tragedy.
Unrequited love is usually a feeling of attraction between two people who never had a chance to express their feelings. Or it could be a romance between two people that got stuck or hung in the air after one lover or partner simply disappeared.
If you can recall the tragic life of Ernest Hemingway, the writer, then you're on the right track.
Now here's a tragic unrequited love story I heard from my friend. He was a high school teacher when he met this really cute nurse. They both fell in love and they were an item for around five years. They were really very close and friends even commented that they liked the couple and were wishing and hoping that they could eventually get married and have kids.
But then, tragedy struck when she had to go back to her southern hometown because her mother fell terminally ill. She had to leave her work and move back to home to help her siblings take care of her mother. Even though every sibling was contributing to the medical of the mother, it wasn't really enough. Then, she got a lucky (or unlucky - depends on how you look at it) break: she got an offer to work for a newly developed hospital in Dubai which needed really experienced nurses.
Since moving back home, my friend and his girl have been constantly communicating. Twice, he even visited the girl's hometown. On his third visit, they talked about the Dubai opportunity. But, since the girl needed the job for her mother's medical care, my friend couldn't do anything but agree to it. To cut a long story short, the girl is still there as an expat since the hospital eventually decided to move her entire family to Dubai and her mother got better with the best medical care offered, and her siblings got good jobs in Dubai too. However, the girl never did marry.
And my friend? Oh he's still not married either but I did hear he has started dating again. At first they were communicating through chat rooms and web cam on the internet and making mobile phone calls now and then. However, once the reality set in that the girl wasn't coming back to the USA, they sort of just drifted apart until all communication stopped altogether.
According to psychology research on this topic from major American universities, the experience and feeling of unrequited love is actually universal. However, it can have a great effect on some persons which can prevent them from feeling any love or reciprocating love in the future.
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