Query: Topic about an impossible love story

Comments Summary:

• Alienation from the person you love: The pain of loving someone who may not feel the same way.

• Unrequited love: Despite feelings, the other person is unable to reciprocate them.

• Long-distance relationships: Struggles of maintaining love from afar.

• Societal barriers to love: Restrictions based on societal norms or expectations that hinder love.

• Forbidden love: Love that is discouraged or prohibited due to various reasons such as age, status, or family traditions.

• Tragic romances: Love stories that end in sorrow or loss, leaving both parties longing for what could never be.

Pros and Cons:

Pros:

• Imagining Possibilities: “Because the possibility of weird shit being real and breaking the rules you generally accept makes life a bit more exciting.”

• Entertainment: “Because a good story is a good story.”

• Diversifying Perspectives: “All of us have a spiritual and religious impulse… People don’t 'know' just by thinking. There’s sensation, intuition, and feeling.”

• Exploration of Self: “Makes you think about how some things we don't understand now, like ghosts, may eventually be explained by science in the future.”

• Escapism and Enjoyment: “It’s fun. Life is kinda boring without that stuff.”

Cons:

• Misunderstanding and Manipulation: “He actually thought I would change my mind about kids… that he wasted 2 years with me.”

• Deception and False Expectations: “People stupidly get into a relationship knowing there's a fundamental incompatibility, and lying.”

• Non-Reciprocal Feelings: “The pain of loving someone who may not feel the same way.”

• Pressure to Conform: “After the possibility that you can't have kids is mentioned, it's like their brain just edits out the part where you've always been clear that you never wanted kids.”

• Family Influence: “Even his mother sent me a passive-aggressive message about leading men on and wasting her son's time.”