What is the main difference between Affection and Love?
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Affection is all the sweet cuddling, touching, holding hands, caressing and the like, but it can be done with or without emotional feelings behind it.\n\nLove, on the other hand, can be present even without physical affection. It can be in the little things you say, or the little things you do. It can be in a glance or a smile. Love is sacrificing yourself to make the other person happy. Yes, it may be accompanied with all the affection, but it doesn't need to. Love is a commitment to cherish someone for the rest of your lives. It lasts longer than a touch or a glow ever can. It's eternal.
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love is an emotion that afects your way of thinking. it causes you to see thing from a whole new perespective and react to situations differently. you can really explain what love is or know what it is unless you experience it for yourself. when you're in love, you are willing to sacrifice anything for that person's happiness even if it means you can be with them.
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Like is a feeling, and love is an action.\nLove is a decision that you make.  You decide to love someone even when they aren't lovely, like first thing in the morning, or when you are in an arguement.\nWhen you love someone, it isn't contingent on how they make you feel, or what they do for you.  Love is unselfish, and it means you put someone else's feelings before your own.\nLove isn't something you "fall" in, and out of.  You either never loved them in the first place, or you decided not to work at loving that person anymore.
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Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.
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Love is a feeling of intensity that just happens naturally. It is acceptance of the other naturally at their best and worst, instant attraction, instant connection, liking all instantaneously and all flowing naturally. \nTo love is a feeling that is irreplacable and to engage in love making with that individual is a feeling that once experienced can never again be duplicated. Constantly thinking and longing for that person when not in each other's presence. When 2gether, they complete you and they are your all, you do not feel as though you are missing anything else in life. You long for no other, and wandering eyes are not in your vocabulary; true love in and of itself is a gift that happens once in a life time and you will know it when it happens.
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Love is when you can't stop smiling when you think about your other or someone says their name. Love is when you go to sleep everynight with a smile on your face knowing you couldn't be happier. Love is perfect and nothing can come between true love. When you can get to the point where things that would usually bother you don't, and when you can be yourself and know you are loved no matter what.
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Love can be the best feeling in the world, or the worst.  I've experienced both.  But when two people are in love with eachother, they wanna spend the rest of their life with eachother.  Whenever they're together, their hearts are racing, and they're truely happy with life.  Love is committment, companionship, and so much more.  "love" is different then how you love your mom or dad or brother.  "love" is when you look at your love, and you realize every beautiful thing about them, and how much they've changed you for the better.  Whether we realize it or not, love changes us greatly, and usually it's positive changes.  But love can also lead to depression and a dreadful lonliness if it is not returned by the person you love.  There's a reason everybody has trouble getting over somebody they were truely in love with.
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(m)\n\nMy definition of love used to be this overwhelming warm, fuzzy feeling. When you see her, the world seems beautiful, the birds are singing, and everything reminds you of her. Your heart races whenever she walks into the room.\n\nThat is "being in love." This emotional reaction is a lot of fun but we shouldn't confuse these feelings with love itself. Some people think that they can tell how long a relationship will last based upon how powerful the feelings of attraction are. They spend massive amounts of time trying to decide whether or not they're "in love."\n\nWhat they're overlooking is that love is a decision to do what is best for another person, even if the warm fuzzies are long gone. But it's not enough to want to do what is good for the other. We must form our minds according to the truth that God has revealed so that we know what is good for the other, and we are not just doing whatever feels good. Once we know what is good for the other, all that remains is to follow through and live out that love in our actions.\n\nI think the biggest difference between love and infatuation is that love does not "happen" to couples--it is something they do. It is a task. If the initial excitement of a relationship tapers off and we conclude from this that love is gone, we can be sure that love was never there to begin with. After all, if love is simply about having romantic feelings, how could a bride and groom promise each other that their marriage will last "until death do us part"? More likely, it would last until boredom do us part. Therefore, you can not determine the worth of a relationship by measuring the intensity of emotions.\n\nSuppose you're married and your pregnant wife has food cravings. It is four in the morning, and she wants you to go to the grocery store to get her fudge-brownie ice cream, pickle juice, and beef jerky. You roll over and look at your bride and she does not seem to be glowing like she did on your wedding day. At four in the morning, your world is not looking beautiful and the singing birds have gone mute. But after kissing her fevered forehead, you walk out the door and drive to the store. Has love gone away? Actually, it's more real than ever.\n\nSo, how do you know if you love a woman? Pope John Paul II has answered this question perfectly by saying that "the greater the feeling of responsibility for the [beloved] the more true love there is."(1) The greatest example of this love is Christ. He alone perfectly reveals how to love a woman. If we ever need to know how to properly love a woman, all we need to do is look at a crucifix.
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See how your "love" compares with this definition of love:\n\n*** Love is long-suffering and kind. \n\n*** Love is not jealous.\n\n*** Love does not brag nor get puffed up.\n\n*** Love does not behave indecently. \n\n*** Love does not look for its own interests.\n\n*** Love does not become provoked. \n\n*** Love does not keep account of injuries. \n\n*** Love does not rejoice over unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth. \n\n*** Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.\n\n*** Love never fails.
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Love is a feeling of affection and careness towards another person or thing.
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Sure we can all tell you what love is, but I can tell you right now you will not get one same answer. Love means different things to different people. So the meaning of love to me will not be the same as your feelings.
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Infatuation is based on sexual gratification, selfishness, superficiality, shallowness, external appearances, and physical needs.\n\nLove is based on commitment, sacrifice, attraction, devotion, selflessness, service, duty, obligations, and morality.\n\nInfatuation NEVER lasts when it is not accompanied by love.  Don't confuse those two.
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Although clearly and consistently defining love is a difficult task, and often a subject of much debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't "love". As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more "pure" form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, though other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts.\nIn ordinary use, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself.\n\nThe concept of love, however, is subject to debate. Some deny the existence of love. Others call it a recently-invented abstraction, sometimes dating the "invention" to courtly Europe during or after the middle ages—though this is contradicted by the sizable body of ancient love poetry. Others maintain that love really exists, and is not an abstraction, but is undefinable, being a quantity which is spiritual or metaphysical in nature. Some psychologists maintain that love is the action of lending one's "boundary" or "self-esteem" to another. Others attempt to define love by applying the definition to everyday life.\n\nCultural differences make any universal definition of love difficult to establish. Expressions of love may include the love for a soul or mind, the love of laws and organizations, love for a body, love for nature, love of food, love of money, love for learning, love of power, love of fame, love for the respect of others, etc. Different people place varying degrees of importance on the kinds of love they receive. Love is essentially an abstract concept, easier to experience than to explain. Because of the complex and abstract nature of love, discourse on love is commonly reduced to a thought-terminating cliché, and there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value", as opposed to relative value.\n>r
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love    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (lv)\nn. \nA deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. \nA feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance. \n\nSexual passion. \nSexual intercourse. \nA love affair. \nAn intense emotional attachment, as for a pet or treasured object. \nA person who is the object of deep or intense affection or attraction; beloved. Often used as a term of endearment. \nAn expression of one's affection: Send him my love. \n\nA strong predilection or enthusiasm: a love of language. \nThe object of such an enthusiasm: The outdoors is her greatest love. \nLove Mythology. Eros or Cupid. \noften Love Christianity. Charity. \nSports. A zero score in tennis. \n\naf·fec·tion    ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (-fkshn)\nn. \nA tender feeling toward another; fondness. See Synonyms at love. \nFeeling or emotion. Often used in the plural: an unbalanced state of affections. \nA disposition to feel, do, or say; a propensity. \nObsolete. Prejudice; partiality.
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LOVE is a feeling, a true feeling that is devoted to someone else by yourself.\n\nSEX is a physical interaction between two (or many).\n\nOnly different is money can buy you SEX but NOT LOVE!
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Actually love is both hard and easy. Love is hard when the person you love doesnt love you back. Love is also hard when the person you love is doing things that hurts your feelings, and if the person you love wants to leave you. Love is easy when the person you love, loves you back, your relationship is going good, and if you know what you got is real.
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Wow, this is a hard one! Love is putting that persons needs ahead of yours! Love is feeling something so deep in your heart, that you are about to burst! Love is missing a smell, a look , a touch and never being able to replace it. Love is holding your grandchild for the first time. Love is crying when your child goes to school the first day and leaves you.Love is your cat sitting on your lap and purring so contently. Love is opening your heart to all the possibilities of another human being touching your life in even the smallest way. Love is giving with no expectations. Love is painful and lonely. Love is full of laughter and joy! Love is life and without it, nothing is worth living!