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How can I stop from being infatuated?

Asked by mayratapia_ (371points) November 8th, 2010 from iPhone

Basically, I’ve liked this guy for about a year or two, we both like each other. We’ve expressed both our feelings, the problem is that a few months after we met he moved an now lives far away. So I have a huge feeling that we’re infatuated, is there a time span or limit where infatuation will wear off? And how can I get out of being infatuated?

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lucillelucillelucille's avatar

Not that I know of.
Most of my infatuations have worn off immediately upon hearing them speak. Long distance doesn’t sound so bad now,does it? XD

mayratapia_'s avatar

Well I have heard him speak, he has this deep mafia voice, I really like(: in fact, we went to school together and everything.

marinelife's avatar

You can let time pass until you get interested in someone else.

wundayatta's avatar

Keep busy. Do other things. Let him take the initiative to maintain contact. Stop answering the phones when he calls. “Forget” to reply to texts and emails.

It may be very hard to reduce the contact. You may find yourself desperately wanting to connect with him. But you have to remember your goal. For the first couple of weeks, it might be difficult, but after he stops trying to connect, it’ll be not so bad, and then it’ll end.

Pied_Pfeffer's avatar

It doesn’t sound like either of you want to let this blooming romance go, so why cut it off just because of the distance? Technology is a wonderful thing. My SO and I web-cam as he is in Engand and I’m in the US.

Back in the olden days before the internet, I had a huge crush on a guy who I rarely saw after we both went off to college. A couple of years later, when he had a serious girlfriend, he ended up moving into the same apt. complex as me, and I thought, “Here’s my chance.” What I found out is that, as much as I adored him, he was not the man for me. His then girlfriend was wonderful, and I happily attended their wedding. I am thankful for that chance to find out rather than to have continued to pine away for a relationship that wouldn’t have worked out in the long run.

As long as he is interested in staying in touch, why not do so? You might be pleasantly surprised by what happens, whether you end up together or not.

BarnacleBill's avatar

I agreed with @Pied_Pfeffer. Just don’t let the distance relationship become an obsession. Distance only works in the long run if there is some sort of commitment or a concrete plan to live in the same place in the future. If you don’t have either of these things, you need to being moving the relationship into the friendship arena, and start dating other people that live near you.

Cruiser's avatar

You can go find lot’s of experts that could argue one way or the other over infatuation this or that. Listen to your heart. That is where the truth is found whether 1 week or 2 years into it or 1 mile or 300 miles away….you heart knows and all you have to do is listen! ;)

YARNLADY's avatar

I don’t believe you can. Just wait awhile and it will fade away by itself.

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