Question for the thoughtful

[vr_trakowski]

I've been pondering this for a day or so.  Postulated: a person obsessed with another, for years on end, to the exclusion of all other romantic attachments.  But without interfering, at all, in the object's life.  Is the obsessed person a stalker? 

For the purposes of this scenario, there is no Internet, and--because it's fiction--the obsessed person's pattern will not change to contact at a future point.  The object has no idea that the attachment is anything beyond, say, casual friendship, if that. 

Any opinions? 

Comments

[shippygrl.livejournal.com]

less of a stalker, more everlasting unrequited.

[vr-trakowski.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking, yes. Not exactly healthy, but not overtly harmful either.

Thanks!