I was just now reading before going to bed, and I came across something in the book I was reading that I thought was very good. Here it is:

Infatuation

You've probably experienced it--the constant thoughts about someone who has caught your eye, the heart palpitations whenever that person walks by, the hours spent dreaming of a future with that special someone. It's infatuation, and I know it well, having experienced it myself!
Many of us have a difficult time seeing infatuation as potentially harmful. But we need to examine it carefully, because when you really think about it, infatuation can be a sinful response to attraction. Any time we allow someone to displace God as the focus of our affection, we've moved from innocent appreciation of someone's beauty of personality to the dangerous realm of infatuation. Instead of making God the object of our longing, we wrongly direct these feelings toward another human. We become idolaters, bowing to someone other than God, hoping that this person will meet out needs and bring us fulfillment.
God is righteously jealous for out hearts; after all, He created us and redeemed us. He wants us to focus our thoughts, longings, and desires on Him. He lovingly blesses us with human relationships, but He first calls us to find out heart's delight in Him.
In addition to diverting our attention from God, infatuation can cause problems for us because it is most often founded on illusion. When infatuated with someone, we tend to build up that person in our imaginations as the perfect guy or girl. We think we'd be happy forever if that person would return our affections. Of course, we can only sustain our silly crush because we've substituted fantasy for all that person's true identity and discover that our "perfect" man or woman is human like everyone else, our dreams fade and we move on to a new crush.
To break out of this pattern of infatuation, we must reject the notion that a human relationship can ever completely fulfill us. When we find our hearts sliping into the fantasy world of infatuation, we should pray, "Lord, help me to appreciate this person without elevating him (or her) above You in my heart. Help me to remember that no human can ever take Your place in my life. You are my strength, my hope, my joy, and my ultimate reward. Bring me back to reality, God; 'give me an undivided heart'" (Psalm 86:11).
My dad likes to say that when you let God be God you can let humans be human. When we place God in His rightful place in our lives, we don't struggle so much when human relationships let us down. In direct contrast, when we make another human our idol, God can't be our God.
After placing God first in our lives, we need to continue to avoid infatuation by resolving not to feed attraction. "Don't nurse a crush!" a girl from Brooklyn, New York, told me when I asked her how she beats infatuation. And she's right. Attraction only grows in to infatuation when we pamper it.
Each time we find ourselves attracted to someone, we have a choice to either leave it at attraction or allow our imaginations to carry us away. I was once a guest on a radio talk show and afterward talked to the producer, a single woman in her thirties. She told me teenagers aren't the only ones who deal with crushes. This beautiful, intelligent woman still had to resist infatuation as and adult. She made a statement that I have found very helpful. "Joshua," she said after telling me about how aq gentleman had recently been pursuing her, "I want to stay focused on God. Until the right man comes along, I refuse to feed romantic expectations and let my heart get carried away."
For her, feeding romantic expectations meant daydreaming about a guy on the way home from work, putting his picture on the refrigerator, and giggling about him with friends. At the right time in a relationship, each of these activities might be appropriate, but before the proper time, she knew these actions would only lead to fantasy-based infatuation.
How about you? Have you found yourself succumbing to infatuations, removing your focus from God, and fantasizing about the "perfect" partner? Perhaps you need to take a step back and evaluate the role infatuation plays in your life.