What's the difference between lust and love?

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

Sometimes I feel my girlfriend feels more lust than love for me, and it's something I've been thinking in the recent days.
What's the difference for you?

[OlderAndWiser]

Lust is what I feel when I want to rip off her clothes and implant my seed deep within her.

Love is what I am still feeling for her after I have satisfied my drive for lust.

[Liam_Hayden]

Would you take care of her even if she were sick or old? That's love. If not, that's lust. Love is commitment to the other. Lust is not.

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

Of course I'd do, and I think she'd do the same since she's so kind and thoughtful.
But I keep thinking there's something not right.
She keeps saying I make her feel good and understood, and I fear that's what all is about.

[StingRayxoxo]

Lust is you just want to fu** the hell out of them. Love is when you want to fu** the hell out of them but you also want to enhance their life and take care of them

[StingRayxoxo]

Thanks for the MHO

[PrincessGrail]

Both are forms of passion, but love is more refined than lust.

[PrincessGrail]

Also, lust is earthy, while love is transcendent.

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

It could also be said that love is more altruistic while lust has a more selfish connotation?

[PrincessGrail]

In lust, you're both using each other. In love, you're glorifying (and sometimes idealizing) each other.

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

I understand.
I'm sorry if I'm taking this far, but it could be that one person is in love, and the other just lusts.

[PrincessGrail]

That's a really bad situation to be in

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

*just lusts?

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

Yes, I agree

[PrincessGrail]

I wouldn't want to love someone who only lusted after me, and after the initial thrill wore off, I wouldn't want to be only in lust with someone who loved me (and I didn't love them back).

[Logorithim]

With lust, you want to have sex with her. With love, you want no one else and you want a relationship as well as sex.

[tonicandgin]

for me, lust is when i don't particularly have major interests with you but i'm only hanging around to touch you. Love is when i can tell you anything, sincerely enjoy your company even in platonic moments.

[tonicandgin]

seems to be on your mind a lot today lol

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

You are right, the fact is that I've had some heavy discussion about it with some users and my girlfriend too, and I'm really worked up over it.

[tonicandgin]

If you guys have some common interests in hobbies you could try doing those together

[Erikus12]

Listen, if our talk is making you think your girlfriend doesn't love you, then you are learning the wrong lesson.

[Erikus12]

Don't answer me here, PM me.

[Jean-Marie_Céline]

Okay.

[ROCKS128]

Lust is when you want, lust is temporary, can spoil/mess things, keeps increasing, doesn't satisfy for good.
Love is when you need, grows, matures, gives peace-comfort-satisfaction.

[AndrewMG]

Lust=Zooey Deschanel in 500 days of summer, Love = Zooey Deschanel in Elf. Simples.

[genericname85]

the difference is just time xD if you still lust over someone after 10 years, it's probably love.

[Haffodulla]

Lust wants sex and love wants a life with you

[Wowgirl30q]

Genitals and brain

[Coyote880277]

love is very different

[NovissimumVirorum]

They're both terrible mental diseases

[PrincessGrail]

No. They’re both beautiful in different ways.

[Anonymous]

(Putting my boots a waders on). Lol