I don't see anyone saying what I feel, so here goes. Lust is where you want to be with the person. There's some kind of barrier between you, but you want them. Sometimes more than anything else in the world, and it can really feel like love. Or you can be telling yourself it is because you want it to work. But something's off. Love? This is practically conjecture as it's based on hopes, secondhand information, and... I don't even know what, but I think I'm right. Love is where the person makes you feel like there's another being that wants the best for you, and you want the same for them. Love is knowing who a person is at their core, wholly appreciating them, and trusting them enough to be nothing but excited to see who they grow into next. Love is where you would see them hurt you, or be with another, or would give up anything of yourself, just to see them happy, and know they'll never make you. Love doesn't hold back. Love doesn't demand conditions. Love asks for understanding, and gives it. Love has patience, and gives it. Love is Truly having someone and giving yourself to them, and growing into something bigger together.
Browneye57 | 3.9K opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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Everyone knows what lust is. Love has many varying levels and types - for example many men never come to the realization that their woman will NEVER love them like their mother did, and waste some or all of their life hoping and pining they can find one that will. Ain't never happening - romantic love and maternal love are very different. For most people, love happens when the NRE wears off - new relationship energy or emotion. When the dust settles the relationship should mature into something deeper and more meaningful, or it simply fails. And really, love is about GIVING, not what you'll GET. Too many are really confused about that as well. Family, marriage, children, is about being in a place in your life where you have SO MUCH life force you're ready to GIVE. To love and nurture. It's not about what kind of benefits you'll get out of it - that's a losing proposition.
This is so obvious. Most people won't die for those they are just lusting after. Lust doesn't last and you are never content with lust and that is why cheating exsits. But people will die for someone they truly love. If someone loves you then they will feel like they don't need anyone else and they are fine with just you. In other words, they are content. Love lasts forever and if you were in a relationship with someone you loved, you probably don't love them romantically, but you probably still love them as a person and still want the best for them.
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One is physical infatuation and the other is emotionally driven.
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OlderAndWiser | 6.7K opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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If I am motivated solely by lust, I am thinking of my physical pleasure in the moment and not thinking about any long term consequences for us as a couple. If I am making love, I am thinking about her pleasure as well as my own and I said trying to connect with her emotionally as well as sexually.
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Apope16 | 398 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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Love is the affection that remains after 2 months of steady sex.
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AmandaYVR | 1.1K opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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The amount of knowing the person?
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SteveSmith1985 | 323 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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Caring and trust.
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JKingOff | 216 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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You got the f****** meme up and I don't understand why you're asking... It's pretty simple, lust is the physical attraction, love is the emotional connection. Lust comes first. sorry ladies but you got to get your foot in the door, looks are important but they are not the end-all be-all. Once you actually got the guy where you want them now it's time to turn on your charm, AKA personality. if you don't have any then guess what your foot in the door just turned into a one night stand he's gone the next day. Hope this answers the question for you.
Love is long time commitment etc And lust is ok. But greed and materialistic plastic fakes Sometimes. but anyway. From my past history I don't think in real life u or me would like each other because I don't have irl or online anyone that can be consistent in knowing things and saying what they know then following it through. Etc. Spam. . can u divine what that is? It is a piss week excuse to copy a stereo type. run and think they can hide because they block someone 4example. I'm TTYL? I have to find out 4myself to Darknet access the market with a open pgp key with out java script. it is challenging me I don't know if it can be done. but I want tails. usb to get persistence then I'll see My options like Tor box. Rasperry pi etc.
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Grond21 | 658 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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lust originally meant a disordered sexual desire where you view the other person as an object. Recently, it has been degraded to you only mean sexual desire. Which is a shame, because the more you can distinguish truce with your words the more you can understand reality.
Love on the other hand, is desiring the good of the other person, for their own sake.
So using the original definition of lust, it was only about selfish desires and satisfying those. But love is the opposite, because it's all about the other person. Using the new colloquial definition of lust, is clear that it is only biological interest. But love is far deeper and far more lasting
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Think of yourself and your SO living together only having sex once a month, but quite happy together laughing, talking and having fun. This is LOVE. If you fell like you have to have sex every day or the relationship is doomed to die a horrible death, You don't love them it's LUST plain and simple,
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From an 'occult' perspective: lust is purely carnal and it's also objectifying, in the sense that it drives you to use the other person to satisfy animalistic sexual impulses. Lust is purely hedonistic and even transgressive. That's why it's one of the seven deadly sins.
Love is an untainted feeling and needs to be cultivated. In ancient cultures, it was done by trying to keep the mind and emotions 'clean'. In a nutshell, love is not animalistic. It's sacred. Consequently, sex needs to be treated the same way.
She went out drinking with her girls and comes home. You clean her up (as in give her a shower), put a nightgown on her, send her to bed, clean up the bathroom, including toilet, sink, floor, walls. She gets up in the middle of it to cry on you and beg forgiveness for how "mean" she's been and how she never appreciates you (amazing how a night of her listening to her female friends bitch about men readjusts her attitudes for me), you send her back to bed. You get back to the bathroom. She gets up again. You send her back. Bathroom's clean. You get into bed and make sure you have earplugs, because she's snoring like ten boxer dogs. You only care that now she's safe and un-harmed.
To Love you must know the person so well and know for sure that you do, not think that you do, you should understand, accept, appreciate all what you are inside out, you'd fight the world for the person you love, sacrifice, be nice, be modest, be honest, and most important is trust, nothing would be able to break you apart if you truly love each other, you'll always find a way together, lust is a physical attraction and satisfaction that you get because you are physically close to the person or feeling, imaging that you are
Lust is within love but lines cross when those are two for instant you have lust towards one that you love but when it becomes nothing there but sexual encounters tis all there is there now if you "make love" to said person you one time or maby two times a day it is a different story you love that person and are not there for sex says she refuses and you just respond with an ok and hold her now trying to turn her wits on not only technically rape but it also shoves a gab between you two and those couple will than start to drift into the lust angle
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They are completely different things. Lust, or rather, wild mad sex, is absolutely fantascic. And it's wonderful when it exists within a loving relationship. But love is much, much deeper. Love is when you know all of a persons quirks, annoying habits, faults, and frailties and you love them more than ever. Love requires total trust and commitment. Love grows. Lust is more like infatuation that almost inevitably fades over a period of a few months.
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markscott | 1.9K opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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Love is driven by the desire to do what is best for the other person. Lust is driven by the desire to get in her pants, or to fill some emotional need of your own, at her expense. Love likes to see the other person succeed, to do well, and to have her reasonable needs and wants met. Lust likes to take control, to have the person.
This is a woman's opinion on what love is. The American ideal for a woman is she could be a 300lbs gorilla, not shave her legs or practice any maintenance she doesn't want to do and somehow land a hunky/rich/vampire/bad boy in her bed and be solely committed to her.
Chipotle in bed is love though. If she doesn't share, kick her out and get you a partner that will.
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For me personally, feelings develop over time and eventually love starts to grow, but only when I know them on a deeper level.
Lust is superficial. I can lust after a guy and feel a longing for him even though I don't know him very well.
When you love someone, you care about them in a selfless way and are willing to sacrifice for that person.
While with lust, it is a selfish desire to sleep with that person without any real care for them as a person.
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Stoner710 | 142 opinions shared on Relationships topic.
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Lust is when someone doesn’t know someone and wants to fuck them.
Love is when a relationship develops between two people over a short or long period of time and (hopefully) never be apart. There is also the benefits of sex but there the difference.
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