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unrequited love?

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  • balletshoes
    balletshoes Posts: 16,610 Forumite
    If the "what if" feeling being described here is linked to the "wanting him more than anyone in the world, even though he's not interested, he's with someone else and happy etc etc etc", then honestly, I haven't felt that way since I was a teenager (thank goodness, because its exhausting!).

    I have played "what if" too - but my "what if" is "what if I'd never gone abroad, never met my OH, never had my DD" - in short, its not a fantasy scenario, but a nightmare one, I couldn't imagine not having had those things now. I know it sounds like a cliche, but I do count my blessings that I did go abroad, and that I did meet my OH, and that I do have my DD.

    Blimey I sound like a right old soppy sod today!
  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,792 Forumite
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    delain wrote: »
    He might have terrible nocturnal flatulence... Dutch ovens anyone? _pale_ :D
    He probably has smelly feet as well. And watches football all the time..... erm, what else don't women like...... he leaves the toilet seat up.
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
  • delain
    delain Posts: 7,700 Forumite
    Lotus-eater wrote: »
    He probably has smelly feet as well. And watches football all the time..... erm, what else don't women like...... he leaves the toilet seat up.

    And has really poor aim :eek:
    Mum of several with a twisted sense of humour and a laundry obsession :o:o
  • Cat501
    Cat501 Posts: 1,195 Forumite
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    He might kiss like a vacuum cleaner.
  • Cat501
    Cat501 Posts: 1,195 Forumite
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    delain wrote: »
    And has really poor aim :eek:

    Hang on, all this is beginning to sound suspiciously like life with DS!!:eek:
  • VestanPance
    VestanPance Posts: 1,597 Forumite
    Interesting to read some of the responses here.

    I can't say I've ever felt that way. If I was ever attracted to someone I asked them out. If they said no that was that and I moved on. I've never had any feelings for someone outside of having a relationship with them.
  • mrcow
    mrcow Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    He may not be all that perfect.

    He may have a really bad hairy back problem and a habit of wiping bogies on the headboard.
    Or he may kiss like a wet fish.
    Or he may like to watch himself in the mirror whilst "performing".

    You've built him up to be the perfect guy.....in reality, no one is perfect. There are millions of guys out there, and so little time. Don't waste the best years of your life fawning over an unrealisitc fantasy that's never going to happen.
    "One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
    Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."
  • raven83
    raven83 Posts: 3,021 Forumite
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    Has anyone here been on the receiving end of unrequited love?
    Raven. :grinheart:grinheart:grinheart


  • mrcow
    mrcow Posts: 15,170 Forumite
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    raven83 wrote: »
    Has anyone here been on the receiving end of unrequited love?


    Yes, for many years. It can be quite unnerving.
    "One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
    Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."
  • londonsurrey
    londonsurrey Posts: 2,444 Forumite
    Sort of. I suppose it doesn't seem like love if you don't reciprocate.
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