Can you experience love & lust toghether?

@karin27 (141)
South Africa
January 10, 2012 2:57am CST
Is lust a feeling without love? I know many people say in previous relationships, "it was only lust" But itsnt lust what makes us love?
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@Galena (9110)
10 Jan 12
of course you can. they are two different emotions, and they don't cancel each other out. there can be lust without love, like with a one night stand. there can be love without lust, like between siblings or a parent and child there can be love and lust together, like between a husband and wife.
@Galena (9110)
10 Jan 12
I think there can be. Lust isn't constant. it can come and go. and that's fine. that's the nature of lust. it can complicate a relationship if lust is gone for too long. but often a couple settle into a comfortable sort of relationship. I don't think that many relationships lose lust forever, it just becomes a more comfortable and less intense sort of lust.
@karin27 (141)
• South Africa
10 Jan 12
I do agree with that, but can there be love without lust in a relationship too?
• Belgium
10 Jan 12
I especially think that lust plays a more important role at specific stages in our lives. I'm only 27 and I think at my age lust is quite an important feeling in connection with love. Though I tend to agree with the above mentioned, namely that love without lust exists (as you said parents etc), but I believe that at the age of 40 or 50 lust becomes less important than before, though I don't mean to say that people of that age don't feel lust any longer, I just think it becomes less important in general. It probably depends both on the person and on the stage in life you're in.
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
10 Jan 12
No matter what a person wants to say I believe first comes lust and then love. Now the question is can you experience both of them together. Well i believe so. I see it like this, you can love a girl for a certain characteristics, while you hate other of her characteristics/ personality but because you lust off other of her characteristics you may find it hard to break up with her. Well I really believe both can exist together.
@Renhard (3471)
• Jamaica
10 Jan 12
Yes that is what I believe. I know you have certain situation where love can come without lust. But for the majority of relationship I believe it is lust then love. i remember hearing over the television, an argument about this, and it was said lust is like the key to a door and inside the room is love. What they were trying to say is sometimes if you dont lust, you wont take the initiative to pull that door, or rather you wont be interested in the key to pull that door. But when you lust and you are lucky enough to get that door open providing that girl/boy feels the same for you. then You wont need the key again to that door, as now you have love but notice through problems and such, that door can close back on you. If you love the person enough it could be possible you will gain extra ordinary strength and break down that door. No more key required or rather said no lust required.
@karin27 (141)
• South Africa
10 Jan 12
So you recon first comes lust and then the love?
@asendud (318)
• Indonesia
10 Jan 12
everyone has a lust in his mind and soul. but that is not love. actually i don't really know about what is love. but, i think love is when you see someone, you will feel happy and want to smile, or you will jittery and nervous.
@karin27 (141)
• South Africa
10 Jan 12
Lust is the feeling of nervous and jittery, Where love should be you love that person you are happy to see them, you can easliy share feelings and be like best freinds including benifits and more, if those 2 feelings dont come toghter what then?
@cearn25 (3456)
• Philippines
11 Jan 12
Lust can be called lust if you don't feel sincerity to each other. Lust is only you want to play fire. But love and lust is a great combination to show to your partner how much you value him or her. Both coincides when you feel you belong.
@iamroms (78)
• Philippines
10 Jan 12
love can survive without lust such as your love for your mother and father. but as for romantic love, i personally think it must go together
@karin27 (141)
• South Africa
10 Jan 12
Have you experienced it toghtether? what if lust goes away, is the love stil strong to survive without lust? and how do you get the lust feeling back for your partnet to feel that way and for yourself?
@eynj_17 (33)
• Philippines
18 Jan 12
well for yes...you cannot have lust if you don;t love that person...and vice verse...but other may say that lust first before love...that would be weird for me...^_^
@EdnaReyes (2622)
• Philippines
10 Jan 12
I would be suspicion that my husband is having an affair if he won't have lust for me! I am a married woman and I think l "lusting my partner is part of my duty and responsibility as a wife. I don't think lust is absence inside a love relationship and I think it must not be without it.