Impossible Love is the desire for someone that has very little likelihood of fulfillment.

Typically, the object of impossible Love is thought of as someone who can appease your desires, but for various reasons is beyond your reach.

Since humans are motivated to maximize positive emotions and minimize negative ones, experiencing impossible Love is stressful.

The obstacles in impossible Love may vary. The object of your affection may be attached to someone else, unmanageable geographically, disinterested in your gender, deceased, or incapable of returning your affection.

These obstacles can lead you to experience distress, anguish, grief, and anger.

Impossible Love is shaming. Shame experienced in impossible Love is not ordinarily how you would expect shame to feel.

In such a situation shame is felt as disengagement, as a letdown, a disappointment, or as a frustration.

Beginning in early childhood, shame is activated whenever an anticipated outcome – the expectation of excitement or enjoyment – is impeded.

When you are in a situation of impossible Love, fantasies of the love being realized activate moments of enjoyment and excitement. However, when your attention turns to reality, such fantasies are negated.

Such suppression of emotion is punishing or unpleasant. The inability to express emotion in situations of impossible Love turns a positively directed emotion into a distressing negative one.

The emotional life becomes monopolistic; dominated by a single emotion, such as distress, anguish, and shame.

What is possible in impossible Love is the potential to remember the past, and, in doing so, recognize what may need to be reflected upon in order to learn.

On 18 July 1976, Comăneci made history at the Montreal Olympics. During the team compulsory portion, she was awarded the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics for her routine on the uneven bars.

The Olympics scoreboard manufacturer was led to believe that it was impossible to receive a perfect 10, thus the scoreboard could not display that score.

During the remainder of the Montreal Games, Comăneci earned six additional 10’s. She won gold medals for the individual all-around, the balance beam and uneven bars.

She also won a bronze for the floor exercise and a silver as part of the team all-around.

Comăneci was known for her clean technique, innovative and difficult original skills, and her stoic, cool demeanor in competition.

On the balance beam, she was the first gymnast to successfully perform an aerial walkover and an aerial cartwheel-back handspring flight series.

She is also credited as being the first gymnast to perform a double-twist dismount.