“For years I had a fantasy of a happy-ever-after ending. The first night I spent at the university my fantasy ended, because I thought a happy-ever-after was pointless. Because with my father I didn't want to hope for a happy ending but to have had a happy beginning. I wanted to have been looked after by Daddy in childhood, not finding resolution with my father as an adult.” FatherChildhoodDivorceAbandonmentHappy Endings Book:Sister Source: Sister
“When I talk about unrequited love, most of you probably think about romantic love, but there are many other kinds of love that are not adequately returned, if they are returned at all. An angry adolescent may not love her mother back as her mother loves her; an abusive father doesn't return the innocent open love of his young child. But grief is the ultimate unrequieted love. However hard and however long we love someone who has died, they can never love us back. At least that is how it feels.” IfsThinkingFeelsKindMayChildrenLongHardYoungMotherFatherGriefReturnUltimateDiedAngryInnocentRomantic LoveUnrequited LoveLove SomeoneUnrequitedYoung ChildrenAbusiveKinds Of LoveMother LoveAbusive Father Author:Rosamund Lupton
