Stop loving someone?

If you love someone, can you stop? Can you flush those precious emotions away and treat the person as a friend at your own will. That is, for practical reasons...Maybe that person doesn't feel the same way (anymore), or it interferes with your other goals in life. It's just when the brain needs to protect the heart.

If we think we can, it might be that we are fooling ourselves and only pushing those emotions out of site. So, as long as you continue to run in to that person those feelings could burst out at any moment. The body is at the mercy of the heart but the false feeling of control might empower us.

Maybe the mind can control the heart, or at least the heart can listen to reason. In that case, we're not as helpless as we want to believe when we fall in love. However, this control is the villain of romance, depriving us of the essential feeling of being human while devaluing any reason to live.

It might be different for everyone, but I certainly don't have the answer to this one....