

This is a very quick attraction that feels like it hits you over the head. You do not know anything about the person that you are attracted to. By knowing the difference between being infatuated with someone and loving them, you will know if you are with the right person.īeing infatuated with someone requires no thinking. Infatuation is when you first see someone that you are attracted to and immediately feel there is a connection based on that whereas love is knowing the good and bad of someone and still loving them all the same. is a very big difference between infatuation and being in love. Here is my perception and experience of love. When you are in love, you will have intense feelings for a guy, and be attracted and connected to him on the level of mind, body and soul. Lust and infatuation are usually fleeting and short-lived and don’t tend to turn into love.

If you’re experiencing love to be hard, painful and uncertain, and asking, “Am I in love?”, you are not in love.

As a result, these lustful and infatuation experiences that don’t work out, will cause you to believe, “Love is hard, painful and uncertain.” The reality is love isn’t any of these things. When the guy you’re lusting after or are infatuated with doesn’t feel the same way, disappointment and heartache ensue. The intensity of feelings that come with lusting after someone or being infatuated may cause you to think you’re in love. You may behave irrationally, become caught up in your feelings of what you think love is and aren’t living in reality. You have put him on a pedestal and don’t acknowledge him for who he really is - good or bad. When you’re infatuated, you see him through rose-colored glasses based on who you imagine him to be. Infatuation happens early on and tends to become obsessive. It happens when you are attracted to a guy’s appearance or attracted to him sexually. Lust tends to be short-lived and is more about immediate gratification. It’s when you’re sexually attracted to a guy.

Lust is a physical emotion and reaction to someone else’s physical appearance. In this article I will Just talking about what true love or love is encompassed of and differentiate it with lust and infatuation.
