How do you know when you're in love or lust?
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lust is only wanting that person for like sex and love is a feeling that you when u really really care about someone
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At the young age of 14 you are not able to distinguish love from lust at this point.  Love is not only an emotion, it's commitment, trust, patience, and giving your all to someone for the purpose of marriage.  Wait until your education and career are established and then when all of YOUR needs are met by YOU, then you can tell if you love someone.  Years to go young lady.!!!  This young fella doesn't need to complications of another person wanting him either.  Chances are that he needs as much time to find himself as you do.  True love will feel richer once you know what you're doing in life.  If you two were in real love then you wouldn't need to ask strangers how to show your love to someone.  If both of you were mature enough to be in love, he would have created an environment that you would be comfortable enough to express your love without even asking.  Take your time. ok.
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It is lust, or as someone said, desire. Love isn't a feeling, it is a choice. You choose to love someone.
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You probably love one and lust for the other.
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Lust is a carnal desire, a fleshly thing, it fades with nuturing, satisfaction complete, move on.\n\nLove is more spiritual, not of the flesh, but of the mind, and it flourishes with nuturing!
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Love IS emotional, NOT SEXUAL, and something "indefinable" that you feel in your heart and soul for another person. It's so easy to feel alienated in this MATERIALISTIC, DIVORCE-RIDDEN CULTURE OF OURS, where people, especially celebrities, change partners as often as bedsheets (old saying).  LUST IS purely physical, what you feel when you masturbate alone in your bedroom, or LUSTFUL THOUGHTS WHEN you see someone walking down the street, etc. that REALLY AROUSES THE PHYSICAL DESIRES IN YOU !  We all do it, some DENY that they do it, but IT IS SIMPLY part of our human/animal nature (the urge to procreate, perhaps ?)  You couldn't marry someone you weren't at least SOMEWHAT "turned-on" by, could YOU ?  LOVE IS ALSO IN THE MIX, and that's THAT !!!!!!!
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yes, love and lust are two different animals
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When you can't think of anyone else.  When your heart beats fast, your eyes sparkle and you can't stop smiling.  When that person makes you feel good, wanted, accepted and on top of the world like no other.  If all you think about is being intimate, it's probably just lust.
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lust and love are 2 different things.
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While there's no clear, fool-proof way to decipher your feelings for someone, there are certain ways to make this distinction clearer for yourself\n\nWrite down everything that you associate with the person you're feeling strongly about. For example, love, butterflies, sex, holding hands, etc. \n\nCircle each attribute with a different color such as red for lust, yellow for infatuation, and green for love. \n\nSee which of the three feelings dominates the page. If one doesn't stand out (like if the distribution seems pretty equal), move on to the following steps for more insight.\n\nRead literature and scriptures on the topic. Questions about love are timeless questions that have consumed mankind throughout the ages and are a major theme in many scriptures, tales from mythology, and literature. Read the story of David and Bathsheba from Jewish scriptures, 1st Corinthians from Christian scriptures, the story of Ali and Fatima, Narcissus and Echo, or Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet\n\nAsk your friends or, if you find it easier, ask a complete and utter stranger, so that you get an honest opinion and an outsider's point of view. Tell that person how you feel, and ask them if it sounds primarily like love, infatuation, or lust. \n\nWatch a movie that relates to your situation like "Cruel Intentions" (which is about lust, and wanting what you can't have), "Down to You" (which is about love and leaving it all down to the other person), "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" (which is about none of them really but it's about making a mistake and putting it right), "The Phantom of the Opera" (which is about both lust and infatuation) and, finally, "Titanic" (which is about holding on to someone forever until you die - that is love - bittersweet love). \n\n\nKeep in mind that in most relationships, you're feeling all three (love, infatuation, and lust) all at once, to some degree. \n\nSometimes the person that you love isn't always the person that you want. \n\nTo help you make tough decisions about your relationship, ask someone you trust who has lots of experience with the kind of relationship you want for yourself. For example: \n\nSay you want to be happily married to one person for life. \n\nIf your parents have both been bitterly divorced three times, then they are probably not the ones to talk to. On the other hand, if they are about to celebrate their 50th anniversary of bliss together, then they may be ideal to learn from. \n\nLasting relationships are the those that are built on love -not infatuation or lust. Imagine the person you love in 50 years when they are old and fat. Would that change how you feel about them? If yes, then what you feel now is most likely lust/infatuation - not love. \n\nFriendship should also weigh into your decision to commit. \n\nIn 50 years, if you don't genuinely LIKE your mate, you're going to be miserable. \n\nWarnings \nIf you're not sure about your feelings or your relationship, take things slowly. Spend time apart and see how you are feeling while you are away. Do you miss the person? Or are you more attracted to others when you are apart?
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Lust is part of love but love is not part of lust...\n\nLust can happen all on its own (just for sex), or it can happen as part of the love and passion that two people feel for each other when they're in love.\n\nLove and lust are not completely separate things, but the way they combine - and can be confused with each other - can be very complicated!
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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.
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how long have you known him?  what do you feel?  I mean really feel in your heart, physically, mentally?  are you sure it isnt just lust, infatuation, physical attraction or just puppy love. I believe if your in love with someone you will know without question.  I think the fact that your wondering if you are in love with him that maybe your not in love but one of the other things listed above.  Just my 2 cents
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I think you're in the "In Lust" stage of falling in love.
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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.
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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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knowing what love feels like