{"id":26842,"date":"2024-10-01T20:06:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=26842"},"modified":"2024-10-02T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T22:20:53","slug":"how-do-you-move-on-from-a-unrequited-crush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/10\/01\/how-do-you-move-on-from-a-unrequited-crush\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you move on from a unrequited crush?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-3-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"982\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-3-1024x982.jpg\" alt=\"How do you move on from a unrequited crush?\" class=\"wp-image-26835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-3-1024x982.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-3-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-3-768x736.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-3-1536x1473.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AW100124-3-2048x1964.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">How do you move on from a unrequited crush?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sorry about that, it&#8217;s an under-appreciated worst thing. 1) Feel your feelings. This is a kind of grief, so you might be sad or angry or a bunch of things. Give yourself space to feel that. 2) Take no for an answer. If you can be friends with them, great, but that might not feel OK to you. That&#8217;s fine. But the Hollywood storyline where you make them change their mind is not a good model here&#8211;IRL it&#8217;s at least borderline stalkery. 3) Live your life enthusiastically and you will meet many more lovely people, some of whom you&#8217;ll click with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry about that, it&#8217;s an under-appreciated worst thing. 1) Feel your feelings. This is a kind of grief, so you might be sad or angry or a bunch of things. Give yourself space to feel that. 2) Take no for an answer. If you can be friends with them, great, but that might not feel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2024\/10\/01\/how-do-you-move-on-from-a-unrequited-crush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How do you move on from a unrequited crush?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26860,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26842\/revisions\/26860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}