Where does it go?

I heard this quote on a tv show: When you love someone, and you break up, where does the love go?”’

But I’m wanting to take that to a whole different place:

When you’re in a relationship and you love someone but they don’t love you… where does that love go?

Really.  Is it unrequited love?  That is the material that movies, songs and poems are written about.  'I'll Follow the Sun', 'Waitin in Vain'; 'To Make You Feel My Love'.  John and Paul, and Bob and Bob all knew.  Forrest Gump and Gone With the Wind are two movies where Boy loves girl and girl just takes love and eventually walks away (or dies).  AE Housman, Yeats and St Vincent Millay seemed to have the right words for the feelings.  

In a way, it might be.  The one that is the object of affection may not realize the one that is loving may have more on the line emotionally than they do.  Maybe they feel that he or she is undeserving or suspicious because of past experiences.  They might want to love, but simply don't for reasons they don't understand or may never understand.  Sometimes it just isn't there. 

One person is in a place where the other isn't, but they are together.  Where does the love go?  One goes through the motions of a relationship while the other thinks everything is fine.  Where does the love go? Both partners are "in it" together, there is caring and sharing, but it is unequal.  

Does the one getting the love just put it into reserve for another?  Is it a way to perpetuate and keep spreading the love in the design that it just may come back full circle to the one that gave out the love originally?  Optimistic concept but pretty mindful. 

I don't know.  It's something to ponder about lately.  Where does it go? Where does all the love go? 

And in the end... the love you take is equal to the love you make.