Not necessarily. There’s nothing in the hypo that says Jules and Suzie know each other, or that Suzie’s former employer operates publicly. Its CEO is a notorious coward, after all.
Ok, well, in the interests of not fighting the hypothetical, I’ll simply reiterate that I’m against violating another’s mental autonomy without their permission (can you violate with permission?). If the rest of us can learn to live with unrequited love, so can he.
You are right. On re-reading, I realise I was focussed on the “hoped that time would attenuate” and undernoticed the “six months”. Six months is human “not fallen out of love yet”, not ill.
If this was genuinely a permanent situation my answer would stand. If it’s a normal thing that time would cure, I’d much rather time handled it than me.
I’d say no, because in my experience, unrequited feelings eventually fade. I’ve had them, and they’ve always gone away. Jules’ feelings will eventually go away. Maybe we’ll be friends, maybe not, but that’s not my call. My goal here is really selfish. It’s not to spare Jules pain: it’s to shape the friendship the way I want it. That’s really pretty cruddy of me. If Jules had a potion that would make me fall in love with him, this would also solve the problem, but I know for sure I wouldn’t want Jules to use it.
A bit like it, but milder. It originally meant a drunk, now, it means a fool, a prat, a doofus.
The “distancing himself” bit - that’s no way to get over feelings for someone, IMO - it’ll lead to brooding, not cooling of ardour. Be a bit less involved, sure, but that kind of all-or-nothing thinking is, quite frankly, a bit immature.
I respect Jules’ ability to decide for himself who he will or will not love. I also respect his desire for some space and his honesty in expressing himself. I can’t picture Jules or anyone else pining for my favor for, oh, no more than a couple of days, really. I’m sure he’ll get it over it. Until then, if he wants to love, pure and chaste from waaaaaaaaaaay afar, well, that is a perfectly suitable occupation for a true knight and anyway, I’ve got some stuff to do, so I’ll talk to him some other time.
Also: I would tell Jules that if he doesn’t get over it by Thanksgiving, I’m going to start picking my nose in front of him.
My pea brain keeps thinking of the True Blood episode when Hoyt was ‘glamoured’ into forgetting about Jessica and his friendship with Jason