Unrequited love
Skinny love and all its variants
Unrequited love
That last bit is just too much
The cruelty of unrequited love isn’t really that we haven’t been loved back, rather that our hopes have been aroused by someone who can never disappoint us, someone whom we will have to keep believing in because we lack the knowledge that would set us free.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
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