Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Noun Phrase 106. The noun phrase today is
unrequited love. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. Unrequited love is a
case when one person truly does love another person, especially in a romantic
way. So, so we don't use this like usually with a family relationship. We
usually use this about romantic relationships. But the other person does
not reciprocate or truly give their love in return. You know when you reciprocate
whatever somebody does to you, you do back to them. So they don't really give
their love and return. So one person just loves the other person a lot. Okay. Let's
go on. Unrequited by itself. So if you separated this word by itself , means not
returned or repaid. So they're not returning the love. They're not repaying
the love. The origin goes back to the 1500s and in fact was used with money to
begin with. So I guess if you gave or you lent somebody money, they were
supposed to return it back to you. I guess it could be an unrequited loan. I
don't know but that's how it originally started. But now, nowadays it's mostly
used for unrequited love. Okay. Unrequited love is a one-sided relationship. You may
or may not have had sexual encounters with that person, Yeah. I mean it's
possible you know, maybe that person is just kind of using you for a good time.
But not really have really strong feelings of love for you. You know, and
like I said maybe, maybe taking advantage of you or taking advantage of your
feelings. That could be one-sided too. Or maybe you ...maybe you've never had you
know, any sexual relations with that person too, but you still have that deep
love for them. Both could be unrequited love. But either way it is clear the
other person does not have the same deep feelings for you or for the person
loves them. Okay. All right. Yeah. I remember this, this, this topic was talked
a lot about in a movie that's it's over ten years old now. But well let's look at
the note here. In a movie called "Holiday" Yeah. It was meant to be comedy. Kate
Winslet and remember the actress that was also in the" Titanic" and I think
Cameron Diaz was in this too. They trade each other's houses for a
holiday. I don't know if that it works out very well in real life, but in the
movie this is what they did. And of course a comedy and luckily in the end
you know, like most comedies Kate Winslet does find real love with a guy and I
think the actor Jack Black played the character. But he does give love and
return. But at the whole beginning of the movie It's about her other relationship
where you know , she loved this guy for, for years and it's really a case of
unrequited love. But anyway, her character in the movie
had this quote and here's the quote here. "Most love stories are about people who
fall in love with each other what about the rest of us ? What about our stories ?
Those who fall in love alone. " So that kind of says it all. When you're talking about
unrequited love. Okay. And just a couple of examples that we, the way you might
hear it used. Don't get trapped in a relationship of unrequited love. It will
only break your heart. Or you know lead to a heartache or
something like that. Or the second one here. That article lists all the signs of
unrequited love. Yeah. If you start looking up unrequited love you know,
online or something like that. You know, just like there's a lot of magazines
that say you know these are, these are the clear signs that you're in this type
of relationship. Or you know unrequited love. So that's just the way you may see
it used. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it is informative. I hope you enjoyed it. Thank
you for your time. Bye-bye.