We most often think of unrequited love as the unreciprocated love of one person for another – very often seen and most dangerous in adolescence. It is in this period of life in what call the ‘flush of first love’ that rejection is, very often, the most acute, unexpected and dangerous – and can lead to the tragic circumstance which I have witnessed on more than one occasion. Continue Reading
Unrequited love is a awful thing – and can have the most terrible of consequences. I have knelt before the lifeless body of a young man I knew who had taken his own life because of unrequited love – and have known others who have done the same. I have watched a friend waste away physically due to unrequited love and be saved only as a result of the love, comfort and encouragement of others. Continue Reading