Listen to the man...

Theres always a moment when we start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

excerpt from 'The Salmon of Doubt'
by
Douglas Adams
the remarkable English writer and, come to think of it, multi-talented genius