Dear Dan:

I am glad you found the term Unrequited Love. You mentioned Tiny Beautiful Things, a book published by Cheryl Strayed in 2012. Here is a quote from the book that inspires me, and that I think applies to to me, to you and to everyone else:

“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal”!

anita