Have been thinking about this for a while, Everyone's definition of love is different. How do you know you're in love instead of in lust? Can't sleep cause you're thinking about them? Hoping every time the phone rings it's them? Butterflies every time you're with them? And for those of you have been with your partner a long time, how do you keep the love / lust alive in your relationship?
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Love or Lust
well, I'd have to say that if you can recognise someones "bad" points and deal with them, embrace them even, if someone hurts you and you go back for more, if you go out of your way not to hurt them, stick up for them when they r not there to defend themselves.....i think you get the drift....then you are in love.
yes cherry, it could, but then "love" is something of a catch-all word....perhaps we should have a word that describes precisely the sort of emotions you feel when you want to spend the rest of the forseeable future with them. I guess people generally make the distinction between friends and partners by using "in love" as opposed to just love.....e.g. i love my guitar, my dog, my bike, my friends (to greater or lesser degrees), but I'm in love with my wife.
Considering english is the most precise spoken/written language available to us as a species (excluding mathematics), it's infuriatingly vague sometimes...or should I say it's used in a vague, lazy way by the vast majority of people most of the time. To my ear there are languages that sound more "melodic" in general (french poetry just blows me away), but english has by far the largest lexicon.
Well I tried all of that t-bags and I failed:cry
This ...well, I'd have to say that if you can recognise someones "bad" points and deal with them, embrace them even, if someone hurts you and you go back for more, if you go out of your way not to hurt them, stick up for them when they r not there to defend themselves.....i think you get the drift....then you are in love
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Hmmm Cherry If I didnt know any better I'd reckon yer a lady I know from another site...........
Anyhoo,
I muyself think that yes there is a clearly defined line between the two.
Lust, to me is urely base and an animal like emotion, more so an instinct, we see someone we crave themn we desire them for the possible sexual gratification that laying with them will bring( very biblical I know all this laying)
Love on the other hand is a complex collection of emotions and bonding excercises, a sense of belonging and being wanted when we are with the special someone, the sense of elation when in theyre presence, feeling safe in theyre embrace, knowing that you can share your trials and tribulations in life, halving the burden of everyday thing's. I could go on with a load of cliches but I think that its certainly different.
