“Because, if you could love someone and keep loving them without being loved back, then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else.” Sarah Cross, the ‘Kill Me Softly’ author, couldn’t have put it any better.
There is no emotional distress quite as that of unrequited love. Only the people who have had the unfortunate luck of being afflicted with a one-sided love affair can effectively describe the wistful sense of hopelessness that washes over you when your love is not reciprocated.