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Is it possible to suppress love?

gossip_girl

*eats yoghurt*

well im not to sure cos were jus chatting like before.....im just worried hes gonna come out with something else! :frown:

Why do you still speek to him? :confused:

Reply 21

shootingstar

OP

BhArJ

Then what do you mean? :aetsch:

I meant... well, he;s been hiding it from me as well as everyone else... do you see what I mean here? or should I just shut up?

Reply 22

Harv616

9

shootingstar

I meant... well, he;s been hiding it from me as well as everyone else... do you see what I mean here? or should I just shut up?

nope i dont, i think, but dont shut up! :p:

it sounds like you 2 just need to talk about it and what exactly is going to be going on

If your both in love go for it! tho i think he might be hideing it because he doesnt want to risk the friendship. Like i said, just talk to him and it should be fine :smile:

Reply 23

shootingstar

OP

BhArJ

nope i dont, i think, but dont shut up! :p:

it sounds like you 2 just need to talk about it and what exactly is going to be going on

If your both in love go for it! tho i think he might be hideing it because he doesnt want to risk the friendship. Like i said, just talk to him and it should be fine :smile:

heh. pretty much what he said, plus the thing he mentioned about me being in Birmingham and him being back home in Yarmouth... :frown:

Reply 24

shootingstar

OP

Mad Caddie

I used to be in love with Britney Spears, and then with Micha Barton...I've learnt to supress this love though. :redface:

hehe!

Reply 25

shootingstar

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gossip_girl

*eats yoghurt*

well im not to sure cos were jus chatting like before.....im just worried hes gonna come out with something else! :frown:

what did you say to him in response to him "wanting to kiss you"?

Reply 26

Harv616

9

shootingstar

heh. pretty much what he said, plus the thing he mentioned about me being in Birmingham and him being back home in Yarmouth... :frown:

ouch..........but they do say love conquers any distance :smile:

i dont belive it................but you never know :biggrin:

Reply 27

shootingstar

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BhArJ

ouch..........but they do say love conquers any distance :smile:

i dont belive it................but you never know :biggrin:

true...

Reply 28

Fluent in Lies

2

it is possible, and it is worth it in the end

Reply 29

amo1

14

lust yes... love no, but how do u know when ur in it

Reply 30

brokenurservant

1

This gets me too. I used to have a friend who "was in love with me" :rolleyes:

but when he realised nothing could happen he said: "would it just be easier if i stopped myself likeing you??" And that totally messed me up, i couldn't understand how you could stop yourself loving or liking someone, i mean if i could do that my problems would be solved!

But he was adamant you could push these feeling to a part of the brain where it kinda stops being prominent!! I really dunno how that works tho!!! x

Reply 31

Fluent in Lies

2

it does work, took about two years, but it does work.

Reply 32

heminder

13

yes.
he can suppress it.
if he doesn't think of you all the time and has his mind cast on something else then he will be 'suppressing' his love. don't ask me, but i compiled this reply from the dictionary...

Reply 33

Profesh

20

It's 'conceal', not 'suppress'. You may conceal love, by suppressing any and all expression thereof. Love, as an abstract concept, cannot be suppressed.

Reply 34

Luize

13

You can pretend it isn't there and live trying to forget about it. Then it tends to come around and come back at the most inappropriate times.

Reply 35

Profesh

20

Luize

You can pretend it isn't there and live trying to forget about it. Then it tends to come around and come back at the most inappropriate times.

The ideal recourse, for me, would have to be a cathartic one:

http://thestudentroom.co.uk/article.php?c=17

That particular collection chronicles my progression throughout various points along the emotional spectrum, with respect to one girl. Enough said.

Reply 36

emily87

9

Profesh

It's 'conceal', not 'suppress'. You may conceal love, by suppressing any and all expression thereof. Love, as an abstract concept, cannot be suppressed.

yes you can, love is not just an abstract boun, it also refers to feelings and thoughts, which is is perfectly possible to supress within oneself

Reply 37

Profesh

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emily87

yes you can, love is not just an abstract boun, it also refers to feelings and thoughts, which is is perfectly possible to supress within oneself

'Love' as a collection or amalgamation of various thoughts and emotions; still abstract. I fear that this whole discussion will devolve into a semantic argument, but emotions have both internal and external facets. 'Love' is, to me, a state of mind, of which many subordinate emotions are symptomatic. One might only venture to suppress the visible manifestation of any such symptoms, but self-actualisation extends only so far. Certainly, under the given pretext, this lad probably means to internalise his apparitions until such a time as when his feelings for her fade in accordance with her memory, and expression along these lines is no longer so imperative; that is, so long as he can withhold from placing her upon a mental pedestal. I may confess to having done that once, and much to my cost; whether he is able to refrain from doing likewise, remains to be seen.