Its often an obsessive, overly emotional, and idealized focus on another person, she says. Most importantly, theres a huge distance between you and your person of interest. When that crush turns into unrequited love, you know youve fallen for the wrong person.

What does it mean to fall in love with the wrong person?

We fall in love with the wrong people when were so wrapped up in our illusions that we become blind to the true character of the people we become intimate with. In this situation, its like were using a person, any available person we can cling on to feed some dream or ideal which they may never be able to satisfy.