Love and infatuation are both deep emotions that one feels
for another person. These feelings are mostly confusing by many people. The two
feelings differ in their intensity and of course final outcome. Infatuation is
the state of being completely lost in the emotion of unreasoning desire,
passion or Love. It usually occurs at the beginning of a relationship especially
when sexual attraction is central; while
Love is an intense feeling of deep affection for another person. Love
can happen without expecting anything in return. Infatuation, though, comes
with a feeling of passion. It may start with physical attraction and may create
some excitement being around the subject of it. Love comes with passion,
intimacy and is tolerant and forgiving. Infatuation may invoke jealousy, impatient and manipulative. For some people,
there may or may not be any reason to fall in love as it comes with mixed
emotions and may be caused by physical
attraction and intellectual and
emotional compatibility.
Infatuation may start with physical attraction as well
and often feels like being in love too; and has a strong pull but is not pure
like love. Love is the quite understanding and mature acceptance of
imperfection; it is that feeling that is associated with a connection between
two souls that goes beyond the self. Infatuation makes the other person selfish
and since infatuation isn’t pure like Love then it can be accompanied by lust,
because it is about oneself and not the other person. Now one of the greatest
differences between infatuation and love is the effects of separation. In real
love, distance strengthens the emotions and cause great pain to both parties. Infatuation
weakens the bond and causes the feeling to lessen over time. True Love develops
more with time and separation. Whereas infatuation is generally associated with
teenage or adolescence; there is no age associated with love. Anyone can be in love
at any age, even though most love
stories before the age of 20 are considered infatuation or ‘’puppy love’’
By Maimuna Bagudu
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