Unrequited friendship

Popping in with a quick theory: unrequited friendship is more painful than unrequited romantic love, because many people only want one romantic partner and there are all sorts of chemistry involved, but friendship is more… inclusive?

Or maybe it isn’t. Maybe we’re quite as picky when it comes to friends, or at least some of us are. I’m just thinking, there should be a slightly lower threshold for friends, so if you don’t make the cut, it’s worse than not measuring up to life partner standards.

This may all be hogwash.