They don’t love you and they never will

Stop hanging around and waiting for them to love you. Start loving yourself.

E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth
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16 min readFeb 29, 2020

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by: E.B. Johnson

Unrequited love is a painful, strange, one-sided affair that can make us feel vulnerable and undermine our happiness in a number of ways. Loving someone that doesn’t love you back is agonizing and it leaves you stuck with torturous emotions that are hard to overcome. Worse than that, it can prevent you from loving yourself, and prevent you from connecting with the true love you’re looking for in this stressful and chaotic life.

Sometimes, Cupid gets involved where he shouldn’t. The trick is learning how to spot the signs and know when things have crossed the line. Unrequited love might seem like an impossible obstacle to overcome, but it can be conquered with a little understanding and acceptance of things as they are. You don’t have to cling to a partner who doesn’t love you back. You can find freedom, and you can do it on your own (and with a little help from your friends).

Love is a hard game to play.

When we think of love, we think about it as this ethereal thing that just to happens to us — like a lightening strike or a hurricane. We act as though we have no control over our love and we let it come and go (and…

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E.B. Johnson | NLPMP | Editor
Practical Growth

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