2006-11-01 23:15:03 · 7 answers · asked by Orditz 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Love and lust are abstracts, meaning they are ideas and can differ from person to person. Below, is some of what the two mean to me:
lust, is desire, hunger, wanting needing, even if that is wanting and needing to bring another pleasure because it brings the self pleasure, it is focus on ones own desire.
love focuses on one another. I say one another, because for me, one needs to have a view of their wants as well as the wants of the other because if they other loves back, then denying yourself could hurt the other, when one is only focused on being selfless, they can forget that the other might need them to not completely neglect themself, but if there is a healthy balance, then i think a healthy love can bloom.
wow, i'm wondering if that even makes sense...
Basically, i've known people who try to be completely selfless, and in doing so, they neglect the need of their lover who needs them to be emotionally healthy happy too, but they get so focused on being selfless, that they deny their love the security of knowing that their lovers lover is going to be healthy, happy, satisfied.
i look forward to a delicious mix of the two :D
how do you tell them apart? what are their definitions to you? where do they differ in your own mind? finding those points of difference could help you tell one from the other, if for you there are differing aspects within your own mind.
2006-11-02 15:02:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simple. If you look at the person and say, "I wish I could have sex with them right now", that's lust. If when you see the person and can't wait to talk to them or get excited when they call you, that's pointing towards love.
2006-11-02 07:19:30 · answer #2 · answered by DJ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can love someone without wanting to engage in any sexual activity with them. You can engage in sexual activity with someone without loving them - this is lust. Love and lust can be separate feelings or bound up in complex relationships. It's all part of being human I suppose.
2006-11-02 07:30:13 · answer #3 · answered by paul h 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Love is putting the other person first always and doing for them.
Lust is wanting to staify your own selfish desires.
2006-11-02 07:16:28 · answer #4 · answered by djfjedi1976 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Totally different--they can be experienced together or completely separately. And...how do you know? It's hard to say. There are lots of cliches about love...my opinion on how to tell would be: What would you do to make that person happy, even if it meant never seeing them or talking to them again?
2006-11-02 07:17:51 · answer #5 · answered by angk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only speak from my experience. I have found almost without exception that love leads to lust and lust leads to love.
2006-11-02 07:28:38 · answer #6 · answered by langdonrjones 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
lus is wanting to do them love is wanting to be with them
2006-11-02 15:38:35 · answer #7 · answered by Tony 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋