rejection in love

2025-04-26 09:31 Note Type: research Tags: love, unrequited-love

“The perspective that rejection in love involves subcortical reward gain/loss systems critical to survival helps to explain why feelings and behaviors related to romantic rejection are difficult to control and lends insight into the high cross-cultural rates of stalking, homicide, suicide, and clinical depression associated with rejection in love”

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This does not mean that the person you are in love with is the cause, it just depends on their behavior, and that opens the door again to what Carlsson calls non-moral resentment, i.e., the loving person’s right to have feelings of resentment towards the loved one because they are partly responsible for the unrequited love.