what is the difference between love and lust and infatuation?

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for an assignment

Answer 1

Let's go in reverse order:

"Infatuation" is a static, moment-in-time fantasy attachment to another person (or thing). It is based on the trappings of fiction - like the girl is infatuated with the captain of the football team because, although she does not know him at all, she assumes that - since he IS the captain of the football team - that he is strong and a leader and would be kind and sensitive and anything else that she wants in a guy. And he may or may not be all those things - the point is that she is attracted to an idea or a concept and not the individual himself because she is mesmerized by the trappings.

"Lust" is hormonal in nature - it's underlying basis is testosterone and desire. While you can "lust" for power - meaning, of course, that you crave it - lust is more commonly thought of in a sexual way....lusting for another human, not for companionship and friendship or even an affair, but rather quickies in the corner, one-night-stands in the No-Tell-Motel, and groping each other in an elevator. Lust moves without regard for the trapping of infatuation....people who lust after each other are often not the same people with whom a relationship would bloom....and those of us on the outside would wonder "she's with HIM ????" (or vice versa) because the power behind the attraction has little to nothing to do with anything visual.

And "love," of course, is a state of being which takes a little from infatuation and lust and adds to it friendship, maturity, hope, dedication and respect. Love is a state of being that is maintained by all those things. It's actually more work than lust or infatuation but brings more peace, happiness and unexpected rewards.

Answer 2

Love takes time to strengthen and once you love somebody you are able to positioned up with a number of their **** and undesirable behavior. Lust the intercourse is stable or sexual charm is there yet after which you do no longer possibly have something to grant one yet another. Infatuation you have an interest in the assumption and your person photograph of what this individual would be, yet then you rather discover out they at the instant are not something such as you imagined and you regulate into disgusted. Infatutation can turn to lust and after that in case you have different issues in trouble-free it may blossom into Love :D

Answer 3

Differing levels of attraction to someone or something.
Where love is more emotional, deeper attraction which could include lust and began with an infatuation. (if youre talking about a person)
Lust being more on the desirous or physical.
Infatuation being more or less superficial or a beginning attraction.

Answer 4

Love is a condition or phenomenon of emotional primacy, or absolute value. Love generally includes an emotion of intense attraction to either another person, a place, or thing; and may also include the aspect of caring for or finding identification with those objects, including self-love. Love can describe an intense feeling of affection, an emotion or an emotional state. In ordinary use, it usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience usually felt by a person for another person. Love is commonly considered impossible to define.

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.

Infatuation, another name for limerence, an involuntary cognitive and emotional state characterized primarily by intrusive thinking. It is important to note that limerence is not love in the sense of concern for the other’s well-being, nor is it mere sexual attraction. It has been contended that love, sexual attraction, and limerence can all exist for the same person, although the obtained data is not clear on this matter.

Answer 5

Lust is a craving feeling you get whn you so want to sleep with someone, u cannot find any common interests, nor qualities that attracted you to her/him except the physical aspect of the whole situation.
Infatuation is a feeling that you have whn u think he/she is soo cool but whn you come across someone cooler yr heart beats faster.
Love is a deep warm feeling its comes whn u so respect a person, you know the persons shortcomings as well as good qualities, and you can help yr patner to overcome his/her shortcomings, and be a better person .

Answer 6

LOVE is the unexplainable kind of feeling it could make you happy and could make you cry at the same time.Lust is the opposite of love you only feel or have an urge to satisfy your libido and infatuation is just an admiration to somebody else.

Answer 7

Love - from the heart
Lust - sexual
Infatuation - hormones out of control

Answer 8

Love is an emotion.
Lust is an act.
Infatuation is imagination.

Answer 9

spitting, swollowing or gargling,,,