Hey. I'm new here and even though I have been applying LOA before I didn't know it was actually LOA, I just wanted something really bad and then it'd happen out of nowhere. anyways, I came across this topic about manifesting your love back and I have mixed feelings about that.
my story (briefly): I met this guy (and I'd say he was my first love) 4 years ago. The problem is that we live in different countries (but I know that there's nothing impossible). then I haven't seen him for 3,5 years, we were keeping in touch though, but the contact with time was disappearing, but even though I liked other guys he was always in my head. But eventually I started to forget him when all of a sudden we started talking again several times a week (his initiative) and he said he started learning russian (which I speak) and wants to come to my country. and about the same time I started to plan my vacation and I knew I always wanted to go back to his country to visit friends I have there and ..him. and let me tell you that the trip worked out almost perfect! everything just matched so well (my visa, money, everyone i wanted to see was free at the time of my visit). and I knew that when i see him the feelings would be right there again, I knew it and I was right. it was a great vacation and after I came back home we would talk every day and we both fell in love, although we knew that long distance relationships are not easy so we knew any of us could meet someone else. (and he could only come visit me in a year or so, but I was ready to wait as I had a lot of hope). but then couple months ago he told me he was seeing someone else (it took him about 3 weeks to tell me because he wasn't sure). And even though we didn't have any commitments to each other I was hurt as he really made me fall for him during these months. But it didn't take me long to forgive him, in fact I wasn't mad at him, but at the situation of long distance itself and I knew he is not ready for serious relationship. The girl said she wasn't sure after like 3 weeks so now he's single again and I dont know much what is going there between them now, but we talk "as friends" few times a week and he's planning to come to my country anyways. I was very upset, but like many already said here it made me start thinking about what I really want and who I really am first of all. And I think I'm making progress

I don't want to be desperate, but I really want love, I want a happy family and children and house, I don't really care where as long as I'm with the person I love and who loves me. And this guy..I just can't get him out of my head and I want to try again. Am I sure he is the one I REALLY want? No, but I know why I like him. And I just have this feeling inside that it's not the end. I'm not sure if this is really my intuition or just me being stubborn as we always want something we can't have more.. I know also the more you try to stick to something the faster it'll slip away. So I let go the situation and I do truly believe that if something is meant to be it'll be when time comes. It just wasn't the right time for us yet. But how do I know if it's not the time YET or if it's not meant to be at all?..
But my main question is can you actually manifest LOVE? You can't make someone love you, so I don't really understand how this works if you are talking about a particular person? What if when you are manifesting his love he's manifesting someone else's love?? And if you know you "manifested" your ex come back to you, how can you know it's real?... sounds a little like love spell to me

can somebody share their thoughts about this?
and maybe some advice too