requited

Luckily for him, in Colwin’s world, the brief torture of falling in love is just prelude to the lifelong joy of finding your love requited.

His love for the revolution was not always requited.

They show us the way we try to escape an unsatisfying present through speculative fictions about how our suffering will eventually be redeemed through requited love or satisfying work or, failing those, God’s mercy.

But there's a parallel thread of romance... a story of unrequited love that slowly became very requited indeed.

In high school, when I experienced crushes on my male classmates, I believed that the only way those feelings could be requited was if I altered my body.