Painful Love: When Loving Means Longing

Painful Love: When Loving Means Longing

Love just out of reach. Hoping, wishing for more. Hanging on.

The pain of basic relationship needs not met.

Maybe you’ve never been in a relationship where you felt truly fulfilled or loved. Or drawn over and over to the just out of reach partner. The pain of longing can create a sort of intensity. A bittersweet passion. It can also make love without longing feel bland or missing “something.”


Have you ever felt this way? Maybe you didn’t do the chasing, you were pursued without ambiguity and it just felt off. Boring. No SPARK?

Maybe the more attractive option was the quiet, stormy, brooding guy just out of range who would barely even give you the time of day?


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