What is the difference between love and infatuation?
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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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When you have an infatuation , you think you're in love . \nWhen you're in love , you don't know that you are , till it's too late .
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no real love exists and is thriving --- it is quiet \n\nsex and infatuation make a lot of noise and burn out quickly
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Loveing someone is a lot different than being in love with someone. loveing someone is like you care about them and would never hurt them. but being in love with someone makes you have a sparkle in your eye when you look at them and when they look at you and wanting to be with them all the time. but dont confuse that with infatuation. people who have been marries 50 years can love eachother a lot but they cant always be in love with eachother. Its takes a lot to stay in love with someone for such a long time but you'll love them unconditionally.
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When you find true love.Hmm love is something really unexplainable.its a feeling that we feel when we want t love another person. its beyond all our control we cannot explain it. its what makes us human.When you meet ther person for youj then you will realise what love is really about.\n\n\nTrue love? or a lustful kind of love? There is a difference.\n\nTrue love? The world stops around you when you look into the eyes of the one you love. No one else, nothing else seems important, but the connection that is you share with this person. And you can feel it in thier eyes. As if when they stare back into yours, that they are saying without speaking, "I adore you, respect you, desire you, admire you". True love is when you connect on a level that makes you want to do everything you can to make that person happy, and that they do the same in return. It is a powerful feeling, when the world stops around the two of you. You will know it.\n\nLustful kind of love is much different. Its the feeling that omg I have to have that person, they are so very attractive, and that I think I am in love with them. Its a false true love.\n\nYou will feel love for him in time.\nThat love is connection.,YOu can tell him by passing him notes.or leaving him a message.! take it slowly my friend.do that if you are shy.talk to him ,call him,,,relate your feelings towards him.he will start to understand and like you.\n\nremember\n\nBeauty is in the eyes of the beholder
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Infatuation refers to a highly emotional state that resembles passion, but it only lasts for a short time. To be infatuated with someone is to have an unreasonable, extravagant desire to be around someone. It usually occurs after only being briefly aware of the object of that desire.\n\nIt normally occurs in young people but can also occur in more mature people. In extreme cases it can be a sign of mental illness.\n\nUnusually charismatic people (i.e. movie stars, singers/musicians) may find themselves the object of infatuation. This immediate emotional state may lead to true love, or it may lead to stalking. :)\n\nSynonyms of 'infatuation' may include: obsession, crush.
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Note the difference between 'falling in love'and 'being in love':\n\nyou can fall in love many times.. but to truly love another is a once in a lifetime feeling, because when you really love you wont even consider anyone else, even if your love is unreflected. \nsomeone once said (and i find it to be very true) that when you are falling in love, you think the object of your love is perfect, with no flaws! she is your beautiful princess and he is your knight in shining armor. \nhowever, when you love you know the other is NOT perfect, you become aware of the other's faults but accept them, and love the other as he(she) is.\nthe first is completely irrational, while the other borders and moves closer to rationality. we do crazy things for love, especially in the process of 'falling' but when you actually start thinking and you still love, accept the flaws of the other, and are not overly jealous (jealousy is a sign of falling in love) because mutual trust takes over then its an extremely rare occasion!!!\n\nof course, it is also very likely that true love never be found...
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They are two completely different things. Love is an emotion you feel towards someone, and an obsession is something that consumes you till you acquire, something you just can't get out of your head. Some people can obsess about love, but it doesn't mean for everyone that love is an obsession.
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Infatuation is an illusion that makes you feel you are in love. Yet no one can define the boundaries of love since it is very vast and deep and the feelings are ever changing. If you really like the person, try to enjoy the moment because there will always be changes for better and worse :-)
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Love is when you can see yourself with a person, really SEE yourself happy with this person, for eternity.  Forever.  Love is when you can't stand to be apart and when you're together, you feel like never leaving and never sleeping and never breathing.  Love is so complicated that you don't even want to think about explaining it in words and the only way you can do it is in feelings.\n\nLike is an attraction, physical and mental, that makes you desire to be around someone and it makes you happy, but it doesn't blow your mind.  It's when you think about that person and really have to concider your feelings sometimes.    That's how it is for me.
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infactuation is when u like someone for their personality or behaviour or other qualities.. but when u're in love, u would always want to b with that person.. u accept the things that lack in him n still r crazy bout him... u r ready to do anything to make him happy n when he's unhappy or when u hurt him, u feel so so very down... ur beloved is a person with whom u're ready to spend the rest of ur life with...
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I love this question,.. \n\nOK,.. so there is \n1. 'loving' someone \n2. being 'in love' with someone.\n\nRemember this, you can LOVE anything, anyone at any given time,.. love is nothing more than the desire to have a feeling, it can be a feeling for material things, for a certain hair cut, for clothes, anything. the 'love' will usually disappear after the desire has been for-filled, kinda of like an affair, a summer fling...\n\nBut being in love is deep. There are no words that can describe that, that's something that you just know! Its something that you feel so deep inside it makes even your bones shake. Its pure, not artificial. Its not demanding, not destructive or misleading,.. its like being at peace all the time in your heart. Its forgiveness. Happiness, compromise, understanding and communication. It just fits!\n\nHope that helped
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The word love is used in many way, some of which are confusing:\n1 -- Being in Love is a phrase used to denote a romantic attachment.  This is similar to a crush, only more so.  There is usually a sexual interest.\n2 -- Loving someone is usually a mutual emotional attachment.  It is both an emotion and a bonding force.  The bond is strengthened by communication, trust, mutual interests and intimate physical contact.\n3 -- True Love is a state of total acceptance (unconditional).  This very rare, yet often sought.  It comes from out of nowhere.  It does not fade with time.  It is a gift from Divinity.\n\nPS  If someone says that they love you but are not in love with you, then they are communicating poorly.  What they usually mean is that they love you like they would a sibling or friend, with no sexual interest.
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Definitely not, we all have a first love, and more times than not this is not the person you end up with for the rest of your life.  Love like many other things in this world comes in many forms, from puppy love to the all time passionate love we see in romantic movies, but somewhere in between those two is real love.\n(Infatuation--Love--Obsession)
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Attraction deals with desire and sex only where as love is more profound as you'll think of this person not only in your bed but in your life too. The one you love is the one you think of spending your life with oppositely to an infatuation.
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Infatuation is something that fades very easily. Its there one minute and gone the next. That person does something that irritates you and the connection is gone. That's infatuation.\n\nLove on the other hand is something deeper. You have to really know a person to love them. You need to be able deal with all the things that you don't like about them and still want to spend every waking moment with them. You are sad when they are sad and happy when they are happy. You have connection on many levels. Sexually, intellectually, socially, and more.  \n\nYou might say what about love at first sight. Well sure there is love at first sight. You think when you meet someone that omg i want to spend the rest of my life with that person. The lucky chance is that you do have all these things in common and you do have the connections. What was infatuation turns into love and you never realize the transition and guess what that was love at first sight... doesn't happen much but its wonderful when it does.\n\nhope this helps
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Well, love is different from affection. Affection is what you feel emotionally for the person. Love is something much deeper and special and couldn't just be given to anyone.