In The Cure for Unrequited Love, The School of Life argues that the cure for unrequited love is to get to know the person better. The more we know about someone, the less ideal they seem. We tend to focus on the good qualities of someone we love unrequitedly, and ignore their flaws. If we knew them better, we would see that they are just like everyone else, with their own flaws and problems.
Unrequited love is so painful because we hold onto the idea that the other person is perfect. The speaker argues that this is not true, and that if we got to know them better, we would see that they are not perfect.
The video ends by saying that the cure for unrequited love is to accept that the other person is not perfect. We may not know exactly what their flaws are, but we can be sure that they have them. This is a cheering fact, because it means that the other person is not the solution to all of our problems.
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