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The article is pretty good. I'd also say that love develops and perhaps even grows the better you come to know someone. Infatuation usually lessens the better you come to know someone, unless it transforms into love because knowing them makes things even better.
I've dated many women over the years and had a few long term relationships. When I met my current GF I knew things where different after just a couple of months. Six years into a relationship and she looks, feels and smells better too me every day. When it happens you'll know it.
If you're young don't get too hung up on love. Odds are you won't find your true love or even understand what true love is until you're older.
Last edited by johna01374; 04-15-2011 at 04:12 PM..
This is a question many people never think to ask. Am I in love or just infatuated? Unfortunately there are few who actually ever experience we love. I've seen plenty confuse the two and swear up and down that their in love but the tell tale signs of infatuation remain. If you find yourself sacrificing your self respect to satsify that person, if you find yourself forgiving the greatest atrocities they commit against you, if you find yourself choosing friends or family over them and if their on your mind 80 percent of every day. Guess what, you infatuated and not in love. It took me a while myself to find real love. Now that I did, I look back at my past relationships and I see how stupid I looked and how stupid the choices I made in the name of "love". The sooner we realize the difference the better off we'll be.
Like said above in so many words; If your in Love it grows stronger with time, you are less irritated with the other person the more time you spend together. If you are infatuated you want to be together every day of the week 24/7 for the first 6 months. By the time you are a year into it you want to pay them to leave and are hiding from them
Infatuation is a drug. Most people are always looking for their next fix. If you ever had a friend with a constant ring of deusch boyfriends, she's an addict and probably the biggest annoyance in your life. Same goes if you ever had a friend who asks you for advice, then claims she'll follow it, then comes back with more problems because she never followed it. It's because she's not using her brain. This applies for men as well.
Infatuation is a drug. Most people are always looking for their next fix. If you ever had a friend with a constant ring of deusch boyfriends, she's an addict and probably the biggest annoyance in your life. Same goes if you ever had a friend who asks you for advice, then claims she'll follow it, then comes back with more problems because she never followed it. It's because she's not using her brain. This applies for men as well.
No maybe it's because she didn't agree with the advice coming from me and needed to find out for herself. And didn't want to blindly follow someone's opinion. THAT's using her brain. And exercising her free will. If it causes more problems, so be it. To each his/her own path. You seem kind of condescending about that. What makes you think you have THE solution?
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