How do I stop myself from falling in love?

Falling in love is not something you can control. It's like gravity. You fall when you are supposed to fall.

There are multiple reasons to stop yourself from falling in love and I totally respect your decision to want to stop it. First, my advice is to throw yourself into other things. It could be academics or your hobbies or your career! Completely put that person away in your mind and stop seeing them romantically! You don't have to distance yourself totally, just a little bit until you're very sure you only see them as a friend :)

I think the question here is how do I stop myself from being attracted to someone [and add here scenarios like "someone else who is already taken" or "someone who is not really right for me" and others]? Falling in love takes attraction, feelings and emotions into consideration. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from falling in love because it is a feeling. You may want to just avoid that person if that's what you wanted to do. But do take note that falling in love and loving someone can mean two different things. When you fall in love, it is due to feelings and other factors [physical attraction, monetary security, etc.] and feelings may come and go. But when you love someone, it is unconditional. You don't focus too much on yourself and your wants and needs. But rather, you focus on the other person.

love happens, there's absolutely nothing you can do to save yourself from that. your brain pratically kills itself. makes you fall in love and then makes you destroy yourself because of that. I'm sorry, but that's how it works.

Please dont . Believe me it is the best felling. I am a broken heart emotionally damaged person still i am supporting love so there must be a reason behind this.

They say you cannot control who are you falling in love with. But I believe that you can control who are you giving your heart to. Falling in love may not be controllable but we can control what we show and to whom. Feelings can be educated as we need to realize that sometimes our hearts don't make the best decisions for us.

Falling in love is a great experience but falling in love with an ideal image of a person usually makes you wish you didn't as it hits you that you're not in love with the person (with all their flaws) but rather an image. When you realize you are extremely attracted to a person, you should firstly remember that ,he or she isn't a perfect being. And then proceed to look out for some flaws or misdemeanors of the said person. This will bring you out of the clouds and damage that perfect image of the person you have. Now evaluate yourself to find out if you could accept this person for how flawed they are. Herein lies the answer to whether you are truly in love or as in most times attracted to a perfect image of said person.

Whoa! If anyone has the answer to this please let the rest of us know. Write a book about it! Patent it! Bottle it and sell it right next to the self help books!

If only we had that kinda control over ourselves ...There are a few things like love and happiness, which we should just let ourselves to experience

We cannot control what we feel, so I'm afraid you cannot stop yourself from falling in love. We do have a good degree of authority over our actions, however; so we can choose whether to act on the feelings or not.