Some people believe that love and lust are the same thing. Do you think they are the same or different?

[sage2021]

[Bitter_Sweet94]

They’re completely different, but they can blur if you’re not self aware.

Lust is fast, physical, and impulsive.

It’s chemistry, curiosity, and that rush that hits you before you even know the person.

Love is slower, steadier, and earned.

It shows up in consistency, in how someone treats you, in how safe and seen you feel around them.

Lust wants the moment.

Love wants the person.

When both exist together, that’s when a relationship actually feels alive
but they’re not the same thing, and one can disappear long before the other ever shows up.

[beenherebefore]

Very different.

[sage2021]

@beenherebefore
I agree 💯% with you. I can't imagine them being the same thing. 🤷🏼‍♀️

[Finchie40]

It’s different , When you love someone you love them no matter what , they mean a lot to you and you care about them , even if you are angry or upset at them , you still love them , you think about them all the time Lust on the other hand means you just enjoy their company and what you can receive from them , someone you really don’t know to much about , you just like spending time with them when it’s convenient for you , but you can go days without talking to them or checking up on them , they really aren’t a part of your life and not really a priority in your life ,

[LiamJHayden]

Completely different. Lust is self-serving. Love is other-serving.

[OlderAndWiser]

Absolutely not. I can feel lust upon immediately meeting a woman, but I never immediately act upon that feeling. Lust is nothing more than a desire to have sex with someone else. Love requires spending time with a woman and becoming familiar with her character and her ways of interacting with the world.

If I have lust towards a woman, my feelings subside as soon as I have sex with her. If I love a woman, it continues without interruption and usually continues to grow stronger.

[AviatorTom]

They are totally different..

Lust - love em and leave em

Love - love em and keep em

Occasionally, lust, that initial attraction, can lead to love.

[inhahe]

I didn't even know some people think that, except for one poor deluded soul I saw on IRC arguing for hours with people that he didn't love his children and that it was disgusting of us to suggest he did, because that would mean he wanted to have sex with them. (I don't think it was a language barrier.)

I think it's obvious that love is a lot more than lust. If your wife is sick and you make her a sandwich just because, that's love--where's the lust in that? It would take some really convoluted rationalization to chalk that up to some desire to have more sex with her in the future.

And that's to say nothing of love *outside* of romantic relationships... just the humanitarian kind of love for your fellow human or animal, or even your children. It's a shame that love in its purest form takes such a back seat to romantic, primarily transactional relationships that people use the term "love" to refer only to romantic relationships and only think of them when they hear it.

Though, that being said, I do think that lust itself is, largely at least, a form of love: even at its basest, it's the desire to please another sexually and to intimately share that pleasure. E. g., when I feel lust for a girl I see out in public, I literally feel a yearning, a reaching out, feeling in the center of my heart chakra, but maybe I'm just somehow odd that way.

But even so, that would mean that all lust is love, but not that all love is lust. All chickens have feathers, but not all things with feathers are chickens.

[sage2021]

@inhahe

I get what you're saying. I believe that they are not the same thing, because if they were, that would change everything!!
Lust to me, is more like a fleeting moment in time that comes and goes. It's more sexual than love.
Love is an enduring feeling you have for a person, people, animals, etc. It takes up in a place of your heart like nothing else.

[Tarifa]

I would place love within a romantic relationship.

Lust is the feeling where you would get physical with someone there and then. No questions asked, just pure sex.

When lust occurs within a relationship and both get carried away, it's the best of both worlds.

[SeekerOfTruth007]

If rich people had love, they'd marry someone medically disabled.

If normal people had love, they'd marry a fatty of the opposite gender.

If poor people had love, they'd get a job and feed their own family, instead of sponging off everyone else.

[CherryLove007]

Many people are trippin'

We know what love is from infancy.

The brain gets lost in the translation.

Lust equals desire, to have a strong obsessive craving.

Love is a tender and passionate affection for another person... delighting in their being.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Lust is lust & love is love. As for lust it can lead to love & as for love it can also lead to lust. To me lust & love are not the same & different they are.

[Zack-Bann]

I think you can’t have true love without some lust


They are not the same but they complete each other
They are not opposites

[Noredcarpet]

Different. Love is passion, tender. Lust is just lust. You can't be in love, love someone and merely have lust. How I see it.

[Anonymous]

I believe they're different. I've met people who I enjoyed their physical appearance but after dating for a while I found their personality a little boring. So there's no chance I could fall in love with them
But the sex would be great.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I had both a lustful relationship and Im currently in a romantic one. The sex is very different. One was more animalistic and crazy, but the other is more bonding, and feels like a great connection. The second may sound more boring compared to the first, but it is the best sex I've ever had.

[SolitarySolace]

Different. Lust is thinking you have to have sex in order to experience love. Love means you can be with someone without having to have sex with them

[Surely]

Very much different. Almost opposites.
If there isn’t love. Then lust is a one night stand.

[Anonymous]

Love has many categories - parental love, friendly love, love for food etc...

But you probably mean romantic love.

Almost every romantic love starts with lust.

Lust evolves into love, romantic love is upgraded lust, infused with deeper emotions.

[worldscolide]

Absolutely not. Lust doesn't keep a marriage going, love does..

[jordanb8989]

I believe they are different. Love is the connection you have with someone and can’t livr without in your heart and soul. Lust is temporary and never lasts.

[Crankor]

Those some people dont understand human emotions then

[AGirlNameZoi]

Different love is when you want to be with that person for the rest of your life. Lust is just liking them for sex.

[exitseven]

They are different but are related to the same DNA programming that will allow for the propagation of our species.

[BreakPoem]

They're two different things. Love isn't necessary for lust, but love does include lust.

[Awomaninamansbody]

I think it’s very similar. Sex and love.. without sex there is no love. Family don’t have sex but they love each other. But you are more attached to your partner why? Because of sex? Intimacy is sex.

[Eve996]

Different..

lust is temporary but love is permanent

[ZameerAnsari91]

Now a days its alsmot same,
as there's no love without sex in now a days

[AgentG111]

Nope they are different.

[ginger_snap]

Totally different.

[dudeinohio]

Different

[noohair]

Love is lusty, lust is lovely.

[In_Trance]

If it's the same, tell your Grandma

[Xalooo]

Different

[Anonymous]

Different