More often than not, a person infatuated with another know very little about the him and may be intrigued with other aspects favorable to them.  Love on the other hand, requires a knowledge of the person to assimilate shared goals and interest in an intimate setting.  As infatuation is the time waster and can be more easily discerned as false, than is love, information is provided on how to stop infatuation.

How to stop infatuation is akin to stopping an infection. You must take action before the fantasy of being in love with someone inhibits your propensity to improve yourself. Infatuation is the fantasy of being in love with someone or someone being in love with you will no reality. The guy may not know that you exist, but your imagination may have already ordered the white picket fence with the three bedrooms and one and a half bath. You must stop infatuation by writing down what is real and what if fake.

If you have talked to the guy and he made no reference to seeing you again but you have googled him and now is about to look him up on Face Book, then you would have caught the ball before it was thrown. You need to get output from the guy to know that you are both on the same page. When you are infatuated with a person, you can not help but think that the person has the same feelings for you. You need to look at the facts and make sure that you are not dealing with a fantasy but is dealing with reality. Here are a few questions you should ask to make sure that you do not skyrocket a relationship that has not is taken off.

1. Do you know any information at all about the guy other than what you managed to find on the social media online like Twitter, FaceBook, or Google.

2. Does he know your name and have the two of you exchanged phone numbers upon his request. Remember if you are the one who is infatuated with him, you do not want to be initiating any action. Why? Because you will only be prolonging a fictional novel that does not exist. You are looking from input from him to know that he is interested in you.

3. How long has you known him. If you have known him over a great length of time and he has not shown any interest except in your imagination, then you need to sum everything up as infatuation and move one.

4. Have you engaged in a conversation with him. If so, did he ask any personal information of you or was the conversation platonic and just general in nature?

5. Are you infatuated with the idea of being in love so that the first possibility get snared into your net of infatuation for now and love later. Remember that you can not be in a relationship alone. Relationship means to relate between two people so another party has to be involved. If the relationship is just between you and your online contacts with him without a response, then you are infatuated.

You can stop the infatuation by realizing that it is what it is. You will get through the infatuation period because he is not there to sustain anything more. Here is an excerpt from a high schooler who is obviously infatuated with a guy. He has had conversations with her but she thinks his undivided attention means that he is interested. He missed out on Number Two and Number Three of how to tell if you are infatuated with a guy. He did not ask her for her cell phone number and she had known him for over two years, long enough to start a relationship.

jojo thank you for your comment. Here is my sound advice to you regarding a senior who may have repeated the twelve grade and you as an eleventh grader is swooning over him. You need to stop fantasizing. You need to stop fantasizing that he thinks that you are pretty. You may be pretty but you do not know what he thinks until he says something to that effect. I am not saying that you aren't pretty which is not the issue here.

You need to stop reading into him not taking his eyes off of you when other students pass him in the hall. He may be just a guy who does not like to be distracted while having a conversation. You did not tell me what the conversation was about but if he did not ask for your cell phone number to call you later for a date, he was probably just having a conversation.

JoJo, you must realize that as a young woman, you may think that you got everything to snare him into a relationship. I think that you are in a fantasy world and is reading too much into whether or not he likes you. You should concentrate on completing high school and focusing your thoughts on what you are going to do with your future.

Having boyfriends is a pleasant high school experience and sometimes lead into marriage with hormones raging and most girls are thinking about relationships. Guys, however, are also at the stage where they may be looking for a serious relationship. However you can not make a guy get into a relationship with you by being at the right place at the right time.

He must be genuinely interested in you and if he wanted to see you or take you on a date, he would have asked for follow up information to get in touch with you. He did not.

You are building up from something that is not real at the moment. Concentrate on your schooling and if he sees you again, maybe he will ask for your cell phone number. But until that time, which is not promised, concentrate on something that is real and that is your employment future that starts with a good education that may include college.

Two years was ample enough time for the guy to show that he was interested in her and to make a move. This high schooler became fascinated with the guy instead of concentrating on a better future was wasting time being fascinated with a senior. She needs to stop the infatuation and fantasizing about forming a relationship with this guy. She thought that he was interested in her because he would not stop talking to her when others passed by the two of them and spoke. He may be just a guy who does not like to be distracted while having a conversation. That would be the realism in the situation. During the undistracted conversation, he did not ask her for her cell phone number or email address. The situation was clearly one of infatuation on her part..

Most young woman may think that they got everything to snare him into a relationship. They spend a lot of time on appearances and being up with the latest music and personal electronics. A fantasy world and a world of infatuation can be easily born of all of the antics when there probably has been no action on the guy's part to show interest. Most girls become infatuated when they read too much into whether or not the guy likes them. Most of these young women need to concentrate on completing high school and focusing your thoughts on what they are going to do with your future. There is no end to infatuation until it is recognized as such and steps are taken to placed the misplaced attention on things of realism, like one's future.

Having boyfriends is a pleasant high school experience and sometimes lead into marriage with hormones raging and most girls are thinking about relationships. A majority of these relationships are not real at all but infatuations which is a figment of their imaginations. Guys, however, are also at the stage where they may be looking for a serious relationship. But, you can not build a relationship out of fantasies and infatuation. The guy must be genuinely interested in you and if he wanted to see you or take you on a date, he would have asked for follow up information to get in touch with you.

Infatuation builds up from something that is not real at the moment. Concentration should be schooling and if the guy you are infatuated with sees you again, maybe he will ask for your cell phone number. But until that time, which is not promised, concentration should be on something that is real and that is employment future that starts with a good education that may include college.

Stop infatuation and need to get over fascinations and fantasies that only places importance on something that is not real and does not exist, at the moment.