Search Results: is it love or infatuation

There's this guy at school who always stares at me. I've never talked to him before , he usually walks up to me with a friend and just stares , while his friend talks to me & my friends.

His stare is so.sad. It's almost heartbreaking. It makes me really uneasy.

On top of that , he looks out for me. If I'm sitting down and a ball is flying in my direction , he'll do whatever he can to stop it. Even catch it , even though their in the middle of a soccer game or even if its cricket and his team is batting. If it's more "verbal abuse" from one of my guy friends who are mucking around , he'll tell them to stop or tell them that its not nice. He doesn't stop it for anyone else in my friendship group.

Oh , that reminded me. Once , I was walking towards my group , which sit near his group of friends , and one of his friends yell outta no where to him "HEYY! There comes your favourite!". He turned around and looked at me.and kept looking with that sad look.

What makes it worse is , if his friends hurt me by mistake , he'll yell his head off at them. If its one of my friends who get hurt , he'll carry on like nothing happened.

Once he was chasing/bashing this guy , and the guy came and stood behind me. I looked up at him , and he looked back down and froze mid-punch. For like two minutes straight , he kept looking at me. I started looking behind him , and his eyes followed mine with this frustrated look on his face.

The guy behind me sniggered , and his eyes quickly diverted and his fist went flying past my ear and into the other guy's face.

When he's walking past or next to me (facing the same way) he'll lean really close. I get really wobbly tryna make sure not to touch him.

These signs increase a shitload whenever we're at the start of a semester or the end of a semester. During the start , he'll come up to me with a friend and just stare openly for a long time. As if , since he hasn't seen me in a long time , he's gonna just stand there and make up for it?!

But its at its highest at the end or start of the school year. The end of this school year , he was walking towards me , with the same worried look on his face. My friend said something funny , and I looked up and looked directly at him,laughing. He's expression went

"I-cant-do-this!" and he quickly turned around.

I don't get it.

Whats going on in his head?

Whats with the sad gazes?

Why is he looking out for me?

I haven't even talked to him.

I mean , why put his friends down if I get hit , but don't give a crap if its one of my friends?

It can't be love but his "mannerisms" are too much of a boyfriend's to be just a crush.

What the hell is going on.yeah. I think that's my main question. What's going on?

I find it that people now-a-days are using the term "love" very loosely. Confusing it will infatuation or just *liking* someone. Some use it just to get what they want.

What's your view do you feel the same way, do you think it has lost its original meaning?

Tell me!

In your experience, how quickly has it taken for you to fall in love with either an ex, or the person your with now? Did you think they were the one, if so, what happened? If it was love in the early part of the relationship, in hindsight, was it infatuation? For those who are married, did you know your love was the one from the moment you met them?

Thanks