do you mean that you don't love him the same way now or just that he doesnt love you? There does come a time in such friendships when both people know in their heart of hearts that its time to move on.

Maybe you're like me though and cannot bear to say goodbye at such times. I always want to preserve in pickle rather than lose because it always seems to me a form of betrayal: a recognition that the friendship never did mean anything which, of course, it did. To be too attached to something in the past is a real problem when days months years pass by so fast and change is constant. I've always wanted to keep all my old friends - and I still have them in my prayers every night - going right back to school days (I'm 53 now!) - just the special ones I mean, even ones I havent been in touch with for many years. I'm pretty sure life would have been much easier and me much more successful at it if I could have been able to say goodbye! and never thought about them again.