Newton, whose only close contacts with women were his unfulfilled relationship with his mother, who had seemed to abandon him, and his later guardianship of a niece, found satisfaction in the role of patron to the circle of young scientists.
I think she is hurting and dealing with more than the average share of regret and resentment and bitterness and, frankly, obsessiveness about her unfulfilled relationship with Tommy.
By concentrating on the Queen's sufferings in early life, or fantasising about tragically unfulfilled relationships with Leicester or Essex, an otherwise somewhat forbidding national icon could be transformed (however improbably) into a heroine of sensibility after all.
The angst-ridden and accident-prone singleton who won fame in Helen Fielding's columns in The Independent before conquering the world in a book and on screen, is about to bring her comic self-doubt and unfulfilled relationships to the West End stage.
But I wasn't unfulfilled until the relationship showed up, in fact I was having the time of my life.
Whether stemming from issues of broken relationships, unfulfilled dreams, theodicy, physical or mental illness, or socio-economic challenges, everyone has a dark night of the soul at one time or another.
There's also something about his unfulfilled daughter (Lili Taylor) and her relationship problems, but the story runs on Schiller's embattled rectitude and the fantasy that great writers embody a lost gentility of austere habits too sacred to be sullied by mere carnality.
I was 24, deflated from a job where I was overworked and unfulfilled, in a long-distance relationship that left me weepy in front of strangers on the Q train, and too often at the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
Two fulfilled people who have created for themselves happy lives as individuals are going to have a lot more to bring to a relationship than two unfulfilled people, and will stand a much better chance of building a successful and solid partnership.
"Unless the person is an unavoidable co-worker or relative, there is no reason to work on a relationship that leaves you unfulfilled".
36 As noted in a previous section, decreasing rewards in a relationship, often due to unfulfilled role expectations, can result in relationship dissatisfaction.
