LOVE VS INFATUATION
Love and Infatuation are both intense emotions that one feels for another person. But nowadays our society has been involved by saturation of the media in our idea of what relationships are. It is often difficult for us to distinguish between these two concepts. These feelings are most often confused for each by many people, but the two feelings differ in many things like symptoms, attributes and feelings.
The first difference is symptoms. According to The English poet John Donne, the foremost symptom of being infatuated by a person want to be around that person, this sometimes could be sexual desire, it is an unreasoning passion or addictive love, and it usually occurs at the beginning of relationship. In other hand love can be described as a feeling of intense affection for a person, it is most often talked about as an emotion between two people.
According to Bob Lenz, love can happen without conscious intention; it does not expect anything returns, and it could start with a mix of feelings like physical attraction and intellectual and emotional compatibility, it is when you want to be with someone. However; infatuation comes with a feeling of passion, it may start with physical attraction and excited to be around a person. These attributes is another important difference between love and infatuation.
Feelings are the most important aspect to distinguish love and infatuation. People who feels infatuation is self-centered, insecure, jealous or possessive, and has the necessity to be with the person or believe that person is a possession and it is more common in teenagers, whereas love is based on as person is, secure, trust, it becomes a necessity to want to share everything, to be with person that you love and give her/him space.
Finally relationships are very important for our society, but we have to be careful with the feelings, because many times this could be infatuation. You should know that love is real feelings that involve honesty, and infatuation is only physical attraction. Also you should remember that love is like the wind you cannot see it, but you can feel it, whereas infatuation only you can see it.
The first difference is symptoms. According to The English poet John Donne, the foremost symptom of being infatuated by a person want to be around that person, this sometimes could be sexual desire, it is an unreasoning passion or addictive love, and it usually occurs at the beginning of relationship. In other hand love can be described as a feeling of intense affection for a person, it is most often talked about as an emotion between two people.
According to Bob Lenz, love can happen without conscious intention; it does not expect anything returns, and it could start with a mix of feelings like physical attraction and intellectual and emotional compatibility, it is when you want to be with someone. However; infatuation comes with a feeling of passion, it may start with physical attraction and excited to be around a person. These attributes is another important difference between love and infatuation.
Feelings are the most important aspect to distinguish love and infatuation. People who feels infatuation is self-centered, insecure, jealous or possessive, and has the necessity to be with the person or believe that person is a possession and it is more common in teenagers, whereas love is based on as person is, secure, trust, it becomes a necessity to want to share everything, to be with person that you love and give her/him space.
Finally relationships are very important for our society, but we have to be careful with the feelings, because many times this could be infatuation. You should know that love is real feelings that involve honesty, and infatuation is only physical attraction. Also you should remember that love is like the wind you cannot see it, but you can feel it, whereas infatuation only you can see it.
