unrequited love
Noun
Meaning
unrequited love (uncountable)
Love that is not reciprocated, even though reciprocation is desired.
Examples
Unrequited love is as different from the mutual love as the error from the truth.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Unrequited love is so boring. Weeping under a blue-black sky is for suckers or maniacs.
Unrequited love is a ridiculous state, and it makes those in it behave ridiculously.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.