Can you still be in love

[Worrynot1]

I met the one 28 years ago. Why can unrequited love still knock you flat after all these years?

Because you are a romantic, and it’s a fantasy you’ve had?
And because it never developed into a relationship, and didn’t reach thw reality-check state - that ‘what if’ stayed with you as an escape?
We all like to have escapes....
Especially if real life turned out like life turns out. Stripey - some white, some black

Because you never ended up seeing them sat on the loo.

I don’t think men suffer from this nearly as much.

Disney should be shot...the ONE, happily ever after ... there’s a myriad of the ONE. happily ever after can be just me, myself and I. I’m harsh but Unrequited love is just the fairy tail view of what could have been in a perfect world... which doesn’t exist!

^^ what they’ve all said.

We all have those we thought were amazing among the majority we cringe at!

My ‘one’ is the only man I apparently fancy and he’s a bellend in truth. He’s on his way home now, not with a glass slipper or a pumpkin but ultimatums that mean I choose to swallow a load of shit I don’t really want to put up with. All because of chemistry!

Disney brainwashed us all...

Someone always trots out the ‘imagine them on the loo’ line. I have heard of some married people who actually love each other despite having shared a bathroom. Perhaps OP is knocked sideways because he really was the one.

But how could he be the one if he didn't feel the same? I still have feelings for a one that got away a long time ago, actually because I booted him out of my life when I realised he just didn't care about me enough to be serious even if he felt the same pull that I did.

Poster too soon. Even though I still think we would've been near-perfect for each other; the fact that he didn't (or couldn't act on it if he did) means he's not 'the one'.

Nah, go google Dawn Masler on love at first sight. It's like finding out the tooth fairy isn't real. It's just very underwhelming when you find out it's a chemical reaction 🙄.