Yeah, wanting something only because someone else wants it is pretty unhealthy and childish. Toddlers and dogs will try to steal their playmate’s identical toys because they perceive them to be more valuable than their own; I would consider it to be pathological if a mature adult exhibited similar behavior with their relationships.
This. I’m not a masochist; being off the market or showing disinterest are turn offs. Like most reasonable people, if the person that I’m pursuing is unavailable or uninterested, I don’t **** around and make an ass out of myself; I immediately lose interest and move on.
There are a lot of celebrities that I do not personally find attractive. Their attractiveness is not increased by the fact that they have thousands of fans who are absolutely enamored with them. When they get married, I don’t suddenly feel some primal urge to fill a locket with their hair from eBay and stalk their hotel rooms so that I can sing them sweet passionate love ballads. Partly because I’m a terrible singer and no living creature should ever be subjected to that kind of torture, but mostly because despite the fans, marriage, inaccessibility, and wealth that supposedly will make them absolutely irresistible, I’m still not attracted to them.