Have you been in love with someone that didnt return the feelings?

United States
March 20, 2008 9:12am CST
Just being around a person shows how you feel. What if the other person isnt receptive?
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@jona_jz (80)
• Philippines
20 Mar 08
Yes, I have tried that and it hurts me so much. He was my friend but before we've been friends, I was already attracted to him. Then I made an effort to befriend him and I was successful with that. We became close and my feelings for him had become deeper. Then it came to a time that he told me that he's courting one of my girl friends. That hurt me so much but I still continue to love him because I was really hoping that he'd return the feeling. Until I became tired of loving him without getting anything in return. So, I motivated myself to just forget the feeling and find someone else that could love me more than how I would love him and I found that guy. That's when I overcome the hurt and forgot about the guy who can't return the feeling that I felt for him.
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• United States
20 Mar 08
Did you spend alot of time with the friend? Did you try kissing and things like that? I'm happy you found love.
• United States
20 Mar 08
Perhaps you still hold feelings for him is why you dont tell your parents?
• Philippines
20 Mar 08
We've known each other for more than 5 years already and we're still friends until now. We came into the stage that we're almost in a girlfriend/boyfriend relationship. What hurts most is my parents thinks that he's already my boyfriend and they like him so much without them knowing that we're all assuming. But I didn't tell my family that it was never us, I just let them think the way they wanted coz I know that it will disappoint and possibly hate my friend.
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@rockvixen (894)
• United States
20 Mar 08
Sometimes when we feel that we are in love with someone, we hope they will love us back the same. Unfortunatly it won't always happen. Sometimes it's better to just be friends. I've always felt, better friend than nothing at all. Makes sense right? You will fall in love many times and one day you'll find the right person, and that person will love you as you do them.
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• United States
20 Mar 08
Makes sense. You can never have enough friends.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
24 Mar 08
No i had never been in love with anybody. what i believe is that one sided feelings in love has no future. i have seen this. its just waste of emotion,energy.
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• United States
24 Mar 08
yes its a waste but still happens.
@teison2 (5921)
• Norway
20 Mar 08
No I cant say that I have. I do not fall in love easily. most of the time I have been the man has shown an interest in me before I even start thinking about falling in love
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• United States
20 Mar 08
Thank you.
@quawertz (777)
• Philippines
24 Mar 08
I will feel really sad when he doesn't love me back. But what can I do? If that's how he feels then all I can do is just love him until it hurts more, :-)
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• United States
24 Mar 08
love can hurt anyway whether one sided or not. Better to love than never known it.
@jairgirl (2877)
• United States
21 Mar 08
when i havent found my real love is yet i thought i was extremely in love with this guy and it pains me so hard coz he dont feel the same and i was like just making a fool of myself. i dont understand that it then, i guess i was too young to realize that it is not right to push yourself to someone who dont feel the same way coz it is not fair both ways. i realized after such experience that it is best to wait for someone who will love you the same way you do and if its not possible just be happy that such love grows in you. anyway, now i have my love and i am very happy that he loves me as much as i love him and maybe even more. takecare
• United States
22 Mar 08
Ive done that before chase them-and it just pushes them away and you do feel like a fool. I hope you find your one true love. Good luck to you.
• United States
22 Mar 08
Thank you, Ive been married 20 years Im glad you found your true love, as have I.
@jairgirl (2877)
• United States
22 Mar 08
hi thanks for the sharing your story and for such a great wish for me, but i dont need it anymore coz i finally found him and been in-love with him for 5yrs now. he is my husband and we're both looking forward for spending the rest of our lives together. i really didnt look for him, he comes along and that day i knew he is the one and the last person i want to fall in love with. takecare and i hope you find yours.
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• United States
22 Mar 08
I don't fall in love easily, either, but I have had at least a severe crush on someone who could care less or even be cruel to me about it. It's really hard when you love someone who doesn't reciprocate. But, I think it happens to everyone now and then.
• United States
22 Mar 08
Yes it really can be hard. Your right I think most everyone has had that happen at least once in their life.
@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
21 Mar 08
I think i have. or maybe i have not. He was someone i knew from my college days and we were almost always together at times, it feels wonderful being around with him and spend so much time talking with him over the phone. We hang out one day and that was the last time i saw him. His message of goodbye to me was only sent through sms and he told me he could no longer be my friend. It hurt me so much - but i did not cried about it - that was certain. I think though i have had a feelings for him but he cut it short. I did not understand why he had to do that to me anyway. Some guys are just so scared of their own feelings they hide themselves just to get away.
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• United States
22 Mar 08
depending on his age (being you Im guessing) he wasnt ready to be tied down?
@aowaow (1516)
• Indonesia
22 Mar 08
The person's feeling is just like "pouring away whole fresh water in drought season". They never did respect or remember for what you did, but when one failure you made, they will dumped you, with no mercy. Just move on, I just feel sympathy to this kind.
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• United States
22 Mar 08
Thats very kind of you to have sympathy. Thank you.
@Reyah23 (640)
• Philippines
22 Mar 08
A one way relationship is a hardest thing. Ive been in a one way relationship before. That time my heart and mine is totally blind. I dont care if i dont received love in return. And the most importan to me at that time is that i love him. How foolish i am then!!
• United States
22 Mar 08
Is it really foolish to love someone?
@mrpippo (756)
• United States
20 Mar 08
i've been in that situation in the past ,when they dont respond after so many try's then i just moved on with my life and on to the next person i fall in love with
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• United States
20 Mar 08
I like your answer.
@kilani123 (864)
• United Arab Emirates
20 Mar 08
what do u think of my story?????????
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• United States
21 Mar 08
I'm not sure what to think.
@kilani123 (864)
• United Arab Emirates
20 Mar 08
hi there how u all doing in here welll it happens with me all the time making someone loves u is so damn hard specialy theese days i recall when i was at high school i was so inlove in a girl name linda and i was talking all the time about her to my freinds at the school and keep looking at her but the disaster came when i had the guts to go and talk to her on the graduation day she asked me if i were studying in the same school that she is studying in ....... at that time i turned my back without saying goodbye to her and felt like iam nothing damn her
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• United States
21 Mar 08
Why didnt you tell her goodbye? I'm a bit confused.
@sidonna (64)
• Jamaica
22 Mar 08
no! but if i did, i would get over it and move on sometimes what we want we don't get, and what we don't want we get.
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• United States
22 Mar 08
isnt that the truth with everything in life. There isnt much that is cut and dry now days.
@sid556 (30960)
• United States
20 Mar 08
Yes I have fallen in love and been in relationships that just did not work out. It hurt but I just moved on. I have had crushes on guys that don't feel the same way about me but that isn't really love. Love takes a long time to develop and you can only hope and pray that the person you are with feels the same. Sometimes they do or think they do and then as with everything else in this world...things change.
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• United States
20 Mar 08
Im not sure love takes so long. I think you either feel it or you dont. Yes everything always has to change. Whether we want it too or not.
• Philippines
20 Mar 08
I remember the song "Samson" by Regina Spektor, as the lines from it says "You are my sweetest downfall, I loved you first' I loved you first..." I have experienced that and I hate the feeling, but I learned. When we love, sometimes we don't care if the feelings will be return, of course it will be better if its reciprocated, but as what they say there are times that we can't get the best of both worlds. I am happy that I was able to give love, and even if the person doesn't give it back, I still appreciate it because he was true to his feelings. Pretending that he loves me will not be as good as forever, so when I find out that he fakes, it will be devastating.
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• United States
20 Mar 08
Yes you are right but not what I was looking for :) Not sure it would be devastating but you would learn your lesson.