Love vs. in love?

[creataccount]

I am genuinely interested in knowing whether you think there is a difference between loving someone and being in love with them. If you do can you explain what the difference is you to you please?

Thank you

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How would you show a person you’re in love with them vs just love them?

[StarWarGirl]

Loving someone means doing those things for someone what is considered as "love", like caring them, admiring them, protecting them, respecting them, etc.

Being in love means feeling the love deep inside ourselves. A person being in love need not to be expressing it but they could be hiding it still could be in love.

We cannot make other person feel that we are being in love, but if the person does notice us, if they closely notice our behaviour, our actions, then he/she may sense it through our actions, through our eyes, through various body languages what automatically comes when a person is in love. This is get felt/sensed their own, it cannot be expressed.

If we express out our love emotions while being in love that becomes "loving someone".

[creataccount]

I was having a conversation with my husband and I told him that i knew 100% he loved me and cared about me but I didn’t feel he was in love with me. He doesn’t kiss me or touch me or caress me. He said he is attracted to me and I should believe him. But i can help feeling something is majorly missing for me. It’s been 3 years of this. It does feel good and I wanted to know if other people also differentiate between the two things or was it just in my head.

[StarWarGirl]

Yes everyone feels the same, you are not alone to feel or to crave this way. Knowing that someone does love us isn't enough. We crave to feel getting loved. It's kind of you know this food is delicious because of look because of smell etc. But you are not allowed to touch it or taste it and feel it's real taste. It's similar kind of feelings. Love needs to get expressed so other person could feel it. Or else it's like you got crowned that you are special but that's it you are never going to get treated as how you are special why you are special and what are your advantage of being special.

[creataccount]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[jennifer_bloom]

Are you in love with your cat? Are you in love with your shrimp? Are you in love with sunlight?

[Anonymous]

"Love" is selfless. "In love" has the tendency to be more selfish. When you love someone you care about them and want the best for them. When you're in love with them you probably feel more connected intimately to them so you probably feel like that level of commitment deserves the same level of commitment from them.

[Iron_Man]

It’s the same thing if you love somebody, you love them don’t make it complicated and overthink things

[creataccount]

So how would you differentiate love for a friend and love for a partner? I suppose what im trying to understand is could you be in love (or just love as you suggested) with someone and not want to touch them and kiss them and caress them…etc?

[Iron_Man]

A friend is not romantic love it’s just caring for somebody. I thought you’re talking about romance love

[Simslover92]

Love is feeling of compassion and often times just platonic while being in love is romantic.

[In_Trance]

You love your uncle.
You're in love with that douchebag you met at the club a couple of weeks ago


That's the difference

[creataccount]

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