“Facts in Prose
When someone we love no longer desires us.
We become emotionally damaged.
Were consumed with torment every day.
Within long-term relationships the lack of desire is commonplace.
Women lose desire for their partner sooner than men.
When your partner avoids or rejects kissing, their love has passed.
Collect your pieces and move on.”
1987
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"The Way Things Used To Be" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "The Way Things Used To Be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq_p37g6xRU (song on YouTube)
Song lyrics

“To lose the thing we love is greater pain
Than to desire and never to obtain.”
Che lasciar quel che s'ama, e peggio assai
Che disiarlo, e non averlo mai.
XVII, 6
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato

“For the love that is purest and sweetest
Has a kiss of desire on the lips.”
A White Rose, lines 7-8, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”
Variant: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired.
Source: Beyond Good and Evil

“My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.”
Source: City of Fallen Angels

Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)