what is the difference between lust, infatuation and love?
143541
lust is just for sex\ninfatuation is an illusion\nlove this is the real thing,it hurts yes,but it is the greatest kind of pain
54298
I THINK LOVE IS WHAT YOU FEEL FOR SOMEONE AFTER YOU KNOW ALL ABOUT THIS PERSON THEIR STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES THE FAULTS ALL THEIR DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS AND YOU STILL HAVE THIS DESIRE WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING AND YOU BOTH HAVE CRUST IN YOUR EYES AND YOU THINK THEY LOOK GREAT ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.IT'S WHEN YOU HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING EATEN OR BATHE. YOU HAVE THIS FEELING OF FULLNESS WHEN YOU HAVEN'T HAD A MORSEL OF FOOD ALL WEEK.THAT PERSON  MAKE YOU HEAR AND DANCE TO MUSIC ALL DAY . WHEN YOU ARE IN LOVE YOU WILL PUT THAT PERSON'S NEEDS BEFORE YOUR OWN. LUST IS WHEN YOU SAY YOU'RE IN LOVE WHEN YOU JUST MET SOMEONE.
395263
When you lust after some one you would be just satisfyed with just sex with that person but with love you are will ing to have a real relation ship with  that person and looking to have a lasting relationship with them and care about there feelings \nthings like this are for relationships
893819
Lust is having the desire for someone that you can't have or you don't feel good enough to have. If you lust over someone you can't really have a relationship with them until you get out of it. I guess it'd be a one night stand somehow.\n\nRomantic love is with someone you are dating and who you love. You give romantic gestures such as presents etc and make love with a strong sense of emotion that carries onto the physical side of things.
1186127
Love has no unrealistic expectations.  If you've seen both the best and worst of someone, then you can decide whether or not you love them.  Infatuation is blind to the flaws of the person who is its object, chooses to ignore those flaws even if they're deal-breakers, which can result in rude awakenings when the infatuation phase fades out.
1111344
it's never "love" at first sight - that can only be lust or infatuation. love is such a strong emotion, you could never possibly feel its impact unless you knew someone....
895340
Love means that you want to be with another person because you are really interested in them. Lust is being with another person because you enjoy the sex.
672431
i believe we fall in love with people who make us feel good about our selves.. or compliment what we believe. it is joined by the word attraction.. liking looks ,smell ...conversation or mannerisms of someone. love is putting your needs before  my own. what i mean by that is not being used by you.. but an example would be like a mom not eating so the kids can have something in their stomachs.  a person in love sacrifices.. some things so the one the love can have a need fulfilled. hurting when the person you love hurts. if his or her feelings are hurt..or loses a job..etc. wanting the best for somone even if the best means it will happen without you. too many people get the attraction and the feeling good part and call it love. but when the looks change(person gains weight) or the person gives contructive criticism(you drink too much or you need to do more around the house) they call it quits and say i dont love u anymore. in actuality they never did love. love is not turned off like a faucet. people get lust ..infactuation and sexual attraction confused with love. love does not see wrinkles ..love doesnt compete.. or abuse.
429355
lust and love are 2 different things.
1053690
Love is a decision.  \n\nWhen you meet someone for the first time, even without speaking to that person, you are either physically attracted to them, or not.  If you are physically attracted, you will attempt to converse with them and begin a pursuit that is based on sexual desire (or lust) initially.  \n\nIf you have common likes, dislikes, backgrounds, thoughts or ideas, your physical attraction becomes embellished with the added spice of  "like" or friendship. (Emotion)\n\nSo our formula now is sex+like.  It is at this point that we "decide" to love this person and then then the formula is sex+like=decision<love>.\n\nIf we are fortunate enough to marry this person, we are declaring our love by deciding to stay together, and in order to stay "in love" we have to decide to stay "in love".  \n\nLove is a decision.\n\nIt is inspite of all else.  It supercedes disappointment.  It began with lust, but ultimately depends on whether or not we decide to stay "in love" for the long haul.
65276
Lust is selfish and love is selfless. If you can't tell the difference, then it's lust. You'll know when you are being loved.\n\nQuote:\nLove is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
780740
No limits at all. To be infatuated means to be smitten with someone or something. There's no telling how long it can last, either - sometimes a week, sometimes ten years. But infauations can occur in anyone and are totally normal.
995713
It is lust, or as someone said, desire. Love isn't a feeling, it is a choice. You choose to love someone.
883919
This is a very complex question..I believe the best way to describe infatuation is to call that puppy love, we all go through that stage in our early teenage yrs, cannot see ourselves w/out the person we so call "love", seeing them as "perfect".  I believe real love is when you do see that the person you  may love is not perfect, and you realize that life does go on if that person were to leave you..just like the saying goes "if you love something, set it free..if it comes back it is yours..if it does not..it was not meant to be".   To sum this up..I think infatuation is just like that feeling you had when you were a kid and saw a toy you just had to have..once you got it..you were bored in 10 mins.  That's my best explanation..hope it helped!!  This is much like the love versus lust thing...
926342
I think of infatuation as a crush. I think of it as the strong attraction to someone you don't really know very well.\n\nAnd cheaters are cheaters.
626484
Yes there is a difference. You can love someone but not be in love with them. The act of love is a feeling you can feel for anyone you care about. Your parents, kids, siblings and friends. You love them but when you are in love it is different and only reserved for one person at a time. Someone whom you want to spend the rest of your life with. When you are in love with someone it is so easy to loose those feelings yet it feels so hard to do while you are wrapped up in them. Once you feel out of love with someone your feelings of love usually go with them. That is why you can totally accept the fact that your spouse/partner has left after some time, but if your mother was to leave it would devastate you. Being in love gives you this fake love feeling until it leaves. After that the person ceases to exist.
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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