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Breaking Hearts: The Two Sides of Unrequited Love
Breaking Hearts The Two Sides of Unrequited Love Author:Roy F. Baumeister, Sara R. Wotman, Roy F. Baumeister, Sara R. Wotman Throughout history, unrequited love has inspired ballads, arias, poetry, drama, and literature. Almost always, however, the tale of the "star-crossed lovers" has been told from the point of view of the heartbroken pursuer. This illuminating new work explores unrequited love from both sides--that of the aspiring and eventually brokenhearted lover... more », and more unusually, that of the beloved, unwilling rejector. Based on systematically collected first-person accounts, BREAKING HEARTS shows how radically different and often contradictory the two experiences actually are.« less