fall out of love

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fall out of love (third-person singular simple present falls out of love, present participle falling out of love, simple past fell out of love, past participle fallen out of love)

1. To cease to be in love (with someone).
   • 2012, M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     Should it come to pass, however, that we do not satisfy or meet all of each other's needs and fiction arises and we fall out of love, then it is clear thata dreadful mistake was made, we misread the stars, we did not hook up with our one and only perfect match, what we thought was love was not real or “true” love, and nothing can be done about the situation except to live unhappily ever after or get divorced.

• fall in love

• disenamour (“cause to fall out of love”)
• unlove
• go off