Is It Love Or Infatuation

Are you getting confused about your feelings regarding someone? You are not sure whether your feelings are showing the signs of deep love or infatuation for that special person. You can relax now; here you will find answers to all your dilemmas about your emotions and your fluctuating thoughts between love and infatuation. It happens with almost everyone. Such a mental battle is witnessed by every person at some point in their life. Sometimes it is very hard to judge whether the individual is the one you have been waiting for, or you are just filling the empty space in your life or heart with your infatuation. Assuming your infatuation to be love and making life time decisions based on such a proposition can prove counter- productive for your emotional strength or even your life.

Sometimes the infatuation is so strong that you mistake it for your feeling of love and affection. And sometimes you underestimate your love to believe it to be mere infatuation. Though initially you do not think that there is any harm in either, but in the long term, when these feelings starts to influence your decisions, they can be detrimental. These inter changeable feelings of love and infatuation are sometimes difficult to interpret. This write up will clear the air and give you a clear vision about your sentiments.

There are some points mentioned below which differentiate between the feelings of love and infatuation. Keep reading to clear the clouds of uncertainty and take well informed decisions.

Difference between Love and Infatuation

• Infatuation is instant desire. Love takes time to grow but stays for longer time. The feeling of infatuation can come in a single glance or a single act of a person. It is just one step further the feeling of appreciation for a person you come across.  It is simply attraction for single quality of other individual and mostly it is their looks. It may be the beautiful face or any quality but love is something very divine which does not spring out of a single act or glance. It grows with time and affection and transcends all the superficial factors. It is based on deep understanding and consistent togetherness. The sentiments of love and affection grows after knowing the person, while infatuation may grow into love or die when you know more about the individual.
• Love is selfless and infatuation is selfish. When you are in love, you just can’t think about anything else than your love. Love is devotion and selflessly doing things just to see a smile on your beloved’s face. Infatuation always thinks about itself. It is fulfilling your wishes anyhow through your loved one. You do not want to go over the board in infatuation. Stepping out from your comfort zone is one of the most sure shot indicators of your love for someone.
• Distance suppresses the infatuation but strengthens the love. When you are apart for any reason from your loved one, you feel more emotional and affectionate towards your partner. You will wait for the time when you can meet your loved one and can wait for a lifetime for a glance of his her divine face and comforting touch. If you are in true love with someone your feelings do not die with time if you do not get to see that particular person. Infatuation vanishes with the distance, infatuation does not have patience. And you start checking out other people and when you find someone with better looks you start to lose interest in that person.
• Infatuation is full of jealousy. You can’t share your partner’s single smile or gesture with anybody. Love is the other name of trust and confidence. There is no space of jealousy or hatred. You are free in love and make your beloved free. There is only one eternal bond which two souls share.
• Infatuation sees the good points only; it flies away when there is a need of compromise and sacrifices. You can’t accept the flaws of your partner in infatuation but love is a deep sea of affection, faith and divinity where there is no difference between the positive and negative.  You accept your partner with all the flaws and love them even with their weaknesses. Love is all about standing by the side of your partner when he or she is going through the worst and feeling happy in their happiness, even when you are deep down in the ocean of sorrows. While infatuation is more about someone being pleasant to your eyes and about superficial excitement when you encounter the concerned person.