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"  Dear E. Jean: I&amp;#039;m a 27-year-old guy and very much in love with a woman who has two wonderful sons and recently dissolved a six-year relationship. We&amp;#039;ve been seeing each other only a short time, and yesterday she told me she was not ready for a love affair. I&amp;#039;m devastated. I have offered to just be her friend, but how do I get her to love me again?\u2014Will Jump Through Hoops Hoops, my man : You can&amp;#039;t. Alas. And being &amp;quot;just&amp;quot; her &amp;quot;friend&amp;quot; is the worst thing you can do. Step back. (And when I say &amp;quot;back,&amp;quot; I mean out of her house, out of her life, out of her solar system.) She needs peace, freedom, and time to grow into her independence. However, because we all live in a field of relativity, and because things change, when June rolls around, take her sons to a ball game. If she happens to want to come along, don&amp;#039;t stop her. Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity.\u2014Mortimer Adler E-mail your questions to e.jean@askejean.com "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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