What is the difference between lust and love

[sexydancer]

What is the difference between lust and love? Do people often think there in love but it wasn't, it was just lust?

[Anonymous]

Everyone likes physical intimacy, there's nothing truly unique about it. The want to simply copulate and have a physical relationship is based on lust and basic human instinct to reproduce. But we need something more. Purely physical relationships don't last because there is nothing keeping it together except the physical intimacy and most of the time we're looking for that something more. Usually you'll have someone in FWB being cheated in the relationship because they are looking for that something more. Love beyond simply the romantic portion means continuing to protect and care for each other despite the initial feelings of romance going away. Many people rush into marriage with feelings of joy only to leave in disappointment because the simple physical intimacy doesn't last. We might think there is love in many situations but truly it is our drive for physical intimacy which makes us imagine relationships with other people and build pedestals fo them. Unrealistic expectations of what we imagine those other people to be and their relationships with us. What we desire to have through lust is not the same as love necessarily.

[DanteSparda]

When you lust for someone it's sex sex sex sex sex, picturing them naked and things you want to do to them and...things like that. Lust goes away after the person gets their lust full filled and they are ready to move one. Love on the other hand is not wanting to leave the person's side. Wanting nothing more than being with the person they are with. Being protective and never wanting to see them hurt or to cry. Filling their very being with a soul changing feeling, tingly feeling whenever their around. With lust you can easily move on to another whereas love you have an extremely hard time moving on. That's the best way I can describe it

[Maestro9]

Lust is that sexual want when you see the person. These feelings can be very intense and is fueled by your idealised version of who you think he/she is. Most of the times, you don't see them for the real person they are, flaw and all. Lust tends to be based only on physical attraction.

Whereas love is a much more long lasting attachment to another person. It when you still want to be with him/her, after the veil of illusion has lifted. You accept them, all of them. Also, you tend to show your vulnerable side, with the person you love, because you trust them.

[abbeyy]

If you think about a person and see their smiling face or the last nice thing they did for you or you for them, you're in love. If you feel internal sensations in your sexual parts when you think of them, you're lusting.

[unighted]

lust is being attracted physically to somebody or to the idea that you have about the person

love is liking somebody for who the person is and for how the person looks like

[torree]

Love is when you like someone for how they look? Thanks, that was very enlightening.

[unighted]

did you read what I wrote correctly? I guess not, because I said is and looks not just looks

[BCRanger10]

Lust is a selfish desire for someone, mostly in the sexual sense.

Love in the truest sense is placing the person you love above yourself. It's a two-way street though. If someone truly lives you, they are doing the same thing and placing you above them. It's okay to still have your own hopes and desires for the relationship, but you put your beloved's above them. And again, they do the same.

[Meedo]

Lust is simply sexual desire .. hormones and intercourse..

There is no one single feeling called love.. love is the product of many feelings..

[mike52197]

Lust is strictly external and based on attraction or sexual thoughts/actions.

Love is about trust, friendship, care, honesty, the well being of both involved and many more things.

[BackAgain]

lust is temporary love lasts longer

[ladsin]

how long it lasts