If someone leaves you, can they still love you; and if not, can you stop loving someone or would that mean you never loved them at all? Tyler

I think this is possible, particularly if one or both people have done something to seriously damage the relationship, or if one person is simply impossible to live with. It might be better for all concerned for a relationship to end even if the one who ends it is still in love. I suspect, however, that your question concerns cases in which no particular wrong has been done, and the relationship is perfectly workable. Can someone remain in love and still end a relationship simply in order to pursue other opportunities (romantic, professional or otherwise)? This might seem impossible if you have a conception of love as completely unconditional and exclusive. (If you also regard love as eternal and unchanging then it's difficult to see how, as you ask, one can genuinely love at one time and not at another.) But I don't see why a state that doesn't fully satisfy these conditions shouldn't count as love. We certainly talk of people falling in and out of love, of being in love with more than one person, and...