~ Please Answer this one for me - Love Verses Lust! ~

United States
November 28, 2007 11:21am CST
Ok, I have a rather interesting question for everyone in here to answer. I really could use all your help on this one. :) Though your own personal experiences, (or lack of whichever the case may be...) and in your own observasions, what is the difference between being involved in a lustful relationship and actually being in Love? Is that any real actual way that you can tell the differences and is so, what are these differences? And in your own opinion, what is the main difference between being in Love and and being in Lust with someone?? I really do appreciate all your imput on this pending question and hope that you will participate with your own imput as well! Thanks everyone & may God bless! :D
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8 responses
• Philippines
29 Nov 07
i think it's clear that there's self respect in LOVE.
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@husi_007 (304)
• India
29 Nov 07
So could you explain how self-respect is absent in a relation that is built around lust ??
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• Philippines
29 Nov 07
it's simply like this.... if you really have that urge, and its really coming strong that you just have to release that heat.... would you be pissed off if for some apparent reasons that your partner haven't explained to you, be denied of such pleasure?
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@husi_007 (304)
• India
29 Nov 07
I dont know,I am not into any serious relationship and to be frank I dont understand why lust and love are not inter-related !
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@ksta007 (32)
• India
29 Nov 07
Honestly there is a big difference between a lustful and a lovely relationship.the lovely relationship will last forever and on the other side one day or the other lusty relationship will breakup. According to me LUST MUST BE PART OF LOVE BUT LOVE MUST NOT BE PART OF LUST
@supersach (1523)
• India
28 Nov 07
Well....I have never really been in love with anybody before neither have I ever lusted after someone. But I am a guy who believes in learning from other people's experiences so from what I have been able to gather is that when you are in a lustful relationship, you are only attracted to that person's physical appearance and not to who that person actually is and his/her personality. On the other hand, when you are in love, physical attraction may or may not be there but you really like to be with that person all the time and like him/her for their personality.
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@gloria777 (1674)
• India
29 Nov 07
Correct. You have really answered to the question and I don't think there needs any clarification. In addition Lustful relationship is full of selfishness and its a addiction.
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@cupid74 (11388)
• Pakistan
29 Nov 07
Love, is un conditional, u r not looking for result or response, u dont care for physical interaction, it can be in same gender, with opposite gender, with any body, it never changes, never go away but increase day by day and grew stronger. Lust, when u have condition, and which change of those condition relation changes. when u look for body or any other response. take care
• United States
29 Nov 07
Hello! My thoughts on this and by my own experience with it, is that love is more than just physical. I mean yes I'm physically attracted to my hubby, but other things before the physical attraction are what make me feel like I love him, that I'm in love with him. I still lust after him too though! lol Trying to tell you all that he did is just too much, but it was little things that I otherwise might have over looked in other people. Society seems to have this stereotype on what it is to show someone you love someone else. They buy you flowers, they buy you gifts, they take you places, they spend money on you.....I just think those things are ways to intice someone, not show them that you love them. The things my hubby has done to show me that he loves me have no monetary value what so ever. They are actions, things from his heart and mind, and vice versa from me to him. To me, lust is purely physical, nothing mental. It's an action not a feeling to me. I can certainly tell whem I'm just lusting after someone, and dont have a care in the world as to what they do or say. I have one reason to be around them and one reason only. After that is said and done, see ya! It wont last. Love does. Bay Lay Gray xx
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@husi_007 (304)
• India
29 Nov 07
I thought I was in love with a girl,but she said it infatuation arising out of lust,because we were so young ! That is my only experience of love and I can't tell you the difference between what I felt and what she felt for the relationship !
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@wisedragon (2325)
• Philippines
28 Nov 07
I think the big difference is commitment. When you love someone you're willing to commit into a long-term relationship with him/her. But if it's just lust, you would prefer the "no strings attached" kind of relationship.
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@ElicBxn (63235)
• United States
29 Nov 07
Being in love means you really care about how the other person thinks and feels. To care more about them then about yourself. Being in lust is pretending to care so that you can get what you want from them.
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