Anyone Who's Ever Had A One-Sided Love Affair Can Understand This

By Malaika Tahir | 1 Sep, 2016

Some of you find love which is reciprocated;

Some find love that is reciprocated but is lost at some point;

Some people find only Pokemon.

Some however, are selfless enough to love someone without the confirmation of that love ever being returned. To love a person who might never love you back, to care for someone who might never care for you.

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These are the thoughts and feelings you go through when you find yourself in the middle of a one-sided love affair:

 

1. You realize that your feelings are never really in your control

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You wish for this nonsensical one-sided suffering to end, but you just cannot help it.

 

2. You learn to find happiness in small things about your love

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An eye-contact, a smile, a high-five, sometimes all you need is an acknowledgement of your existence from the one you love to make you whistle your favorite song for days.

 

3. You can’t hate the other person for not acknowledging your love

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You sometimes do get frustrated that you never even got the chance you truly deserved, but you can still not hate the other person for it.

 

4. Good imagination can have you going on the best dates ever

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Every song you listen to, every poetry you read, every beautiful thing you see, you connect it to the person you love and can’t help but imagine a universe where it is possible for you both to have a happy ending.

 

5. You sometimes wonder if you’ll let them go, or ignore them, they’ll realize your worth and come running back to you

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You wonder if you stop looking at them with so much love, pretend to be cold towards them, make them feel like you don’t care about them, they’ll suddenly have a divine intervention that they loved you along, and only realized it when you stopped showing your love. But deep inside you know its wishful thinking.

 

6. Even with all hope lost, you still dream about your one-sided love to be reciprocated one day

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No matter how many times they tell you that they don’t and never will feel like that about you, a tiny tiny corner at the back of your mind still has a ray of hope.

 

7. It teaches you patience, when you see the one you love with someone else

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Or when they can’t stop talking about someone else right in front you.

 

8. People think its just a silly little crush, but only you know how true your feelings are

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Just because it’s one-sided, just because your love isn’t being reciprocated, it isn’t any less than the love two people share with each other. The love, care and even the pain you feel for them is as real as any love can ever be.

 

9. Despite everything, you can’t help but wish them well

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Even if they chose someone else, even if they do everything that takes them a step away from you, you can’t help but wish them happiness. You can’t help but wish that no matter where they are, even if it’s someone else’s arms, they should be nothing but happy.

 

10. You always watch out for them, with no expectation of getting anything in return

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One sided love teaches you selflessness and sacrifice.

 

11. Sometimes it makes you extremely sad

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There are times, when reality hits you, and you JUST know how impossible it is for them to ever love you the way you love them, and it breaks your heart into a million little pieces.

 

12. But you know this is life, your love keeps you alive

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You don’t lose hope of a better future. You are aware of how time is the best healer and one day, you will move on and find someone, who will give you back twice the love you will give them.

 

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