Java Programming

hello all,

I have a recursive method in a java program.
the main program contains a for loop which calls the recursive method for a certain number of times.

the recursive method obviously calls itself. so I have stacks generated during the program execution.
how can I end the recursive method when it has called itself more than once.
and return back to the main program for the next iteration?

program structure is something like this:

private method (int, string){

    // some code
    //

    method (int, string) 

    // Say that I want to return to main() here
}


public main () {

    // some code
    //
    
    for (int i = 0; i <= somenum; i++) {

            // some code

            method (int, string) // i'll have different argument values for each call
    
   }
}

I know about System.exit(). But that stops the program execution.
I need to keep the method running for the next "for" iteration.
Also "return;" will pass program execution to the previous stack. which I don't want.

Any Ideas/Suggestins??