The emotions of unrequited love can be draining. When you love someone and they don’t love you back it can lead to strong and painful emotions. Maybe it’s an old flame that you never got over, a brief love affair that you thought was more or a friend that you’ve come to love when it’s an impossible circumstance.
It doesn’t matter who it might be, it’s hard to feel so deeply for someone and then know they don’t feel the same way. If the world were perfect, everybody’s love and affections would come back to them. But unfortunately the world is not perfect. So you’re left wondering, why does unrequited love happen in the first place and how can I escape its emotional grip?
Dr. Tarra Bates-Duford, PhD, Founder and CEO of Family Matters Counseling Group, says that for some of us, unrequited love seems to happen more often than it really should. Theories abound surrounding the psychology behind unrequited love, she believes it all boils down to individual attachment styles. Do you typically feel secure in your relationships or do you tend to get paranoid that your relationships won’t last?
“Studies conducted on the topic of relationships suggest that people who engage in relationships anxiously are more likely to experience unrequited love than those who go into relationships confidently,” Dr. Tarra Bates-Duford says. Another aspect is that people who avoid getting into relationships are less likely to experience unreciprocated love. But they seem to enjoy “idealized romantic feelings” from a distance. People with secure attachment styles were found to be the least likely to experience unreciprocated love, she says.
But how you came to have the pain of unrequited love is of no consequence if you think you have to live with it forever. And the fact is that you don’t. That’s because hypnosis can help. By reprogramming your mind to accept the reality that a love will never be, you can escape the torture of loving someone that can never express love for you. Hypnosis can give you an escape path that will lift the persistent pain in your heart and give you a new found freedom. The freedom to move on.
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