What is difference between LOVE, INFATUATION, and LUST?

Answer 1

First I'd have to examine the similarities. They are all, most likely, what was once simply the instinct to procreate.

These words are symbols like all words, the concepts they represent to us are broad and almost undefinable. For instance, there are many different "flavors" of love. This really means that the word "love" actually covers many different concepts that have similarities but are not identical (brotherly love, a mother's love, romantic love). Likewise when one is "infatuated" with a new band, it means something quite different from when one is "infatuated" with a person.

How they have become different would perhaps be related to the varying stages of a romantic relationship. At first there is lust, it is strongly driven by hormones making it feel like raw primal desire. If you continue to see the person you may become infatuated with them, meaning that thinking about the person consumes most of your attention, all day. This phase is terribly distracting, every other second you find the person popping into your head. Finally, if you keep spending time with the person you may develop love, a deep caring for their wellbeing and an emotional attachment that would hurt you if it were broken. At this point it becomes more similar to familiar love like a mother and child, but retains a certain amount of lustiness and infatuation. In a good relationship, the partners both work to keep love, infatuation and lust strong.

Answer 2

While there's no clear, fool-proof way to decipher your feelings for someone, there are certain ways to make the distinction between love, lust and infatuation clearer for yourself.

LETS DEFINE LOVE FIRST

Love is loyal.
Love is wanting the best for the other person.
Love is compromising and working things out in a way that you both can win.
Love is finding common ground.
Love is trying to come together in a way that makes the world a better place.
Love is selfless.
Love is caring about the other person’s emotional needs and feelings.

Love is an effervescent feeling that seems to escape definition. You'll never be able to define love by looking it up in a dictionary, so is a better way to articulate what love is.

Read 1 Corinthians 13 in the Bible, the Love Chapter

AS IM CHRISTIAN THIS TO ME BASICALLY SUMS UP WHAT LOVE IS!

Warnings
When you find true love, be careful, that type of love remains with you forever.
True love may come only once in a lifetime.
Just because you feel this way doesn't mean the other person does!

LUST IS:

Lust is any intense desire or craving, usually sexual, although it is also common to speak of a "lust for life" or a "lust for power" or other goals.

As a sexual term, lust implies a sexual desire in and of itself, an erotic arousal and wish, or intense physical or sexual attraction or craving. In this sense, it is considered a vice by Christianity, and is listed as one of the seven deadly sins of Catholicism and its related denominations. The Greek word which translates as lust is επιθυμια (epithumia), which also is translated as covet.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, . . . Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God."

Lust is self-gratification.
Lust can be obsessive.
Lust is usually tied to sexual gratification.
Lust is selfish.
Lust doesn’t consider the other persons wants and needs.
Lust doesn’t care about how the other person’s day went.
When someone’s in lust they aren’t interested in meeting family or friends.
Lust is wanting something to the point that you don’t care who gets hurt.
Lust manipulates, destroys and controls.
Lust often involves raging.
People who lusts may think they are in love, but the fire burns out quickly when they get the person or thing they lust for.
Lust doesn’t last, but love can.

INFATUATION IS

foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration
temporary love of an adolescent
an object of extravagant short-lived passion

object of somebody's infatuation: the person or object that somebody is infatuated with

HOPE THAT HELPED YA!

Answer 3

Love takes time to grow and when you love someone you can put up with some of their **** and bad habits. Lust the sex is good or sexual attraction is there but after that you don't really have anything else to offer one another. Infatuation you are interested in the idea and your own image of what this person might be, but then you find out they are nothing like you imagined and you become disgusted. Infatutation can turn to lust and after that if you have other things in common it can blossom into Love :D

Answer 4

My answer is: Love is an action...not just a feeling that can go away at any time. Lust, once fulfilled, goes away. Based on physical impulses, it will return but then it goes away again. Infatuation usually indicates a need for validation..."If only he/she were on my arm I'd be worth more than I am now." I hope this brief response helps.

Answer 5

When I separate the person from who they are, i.e. a body part, that person has an incredible bottom, or they are hot, I am separating the person from who they are to how they appear/look. I am also idealizing who they are based on the objectification of their body, i.e., because that person is hot, I would like to get to know them, or somehow they are appealing emotionally mentally because they are hot. As I am objectifying, lust shows itself in fantasy. What would I like, what would I like to do with and to them. So I would say when the idealized picture of this person is replaced with reality, IE., who they really are. You can accept and be willing to see past faults, issues, problems because Love carries no jealousy, love doesn't judge, love don't do anything for self gratitude, love gives unconditionally, love is trust, love is respect, love is truth!

Answer 6

'Lust' is when you want someone but don't have them. 'Infatuation' is when you have someone and think you need them. 'Love' is when you run out of 'lust' and 'infatuation', and become comfortably bored with someone.

Answer 7

Love messes up your head!