How does one know?

• mushroom_soup

  26 Oct 02, 17:22

  how does one know if one's likings for someone is due to love or just infatuation??
  
  care to share your opinions?
  
  
• Givache

  26 Oct 02, 18:04

  Originally posted by mushroom_soup:

  how does one know if one's likings for someone is due to love or just infatuation??
  
  care to share your opinions?
  
  

  Is quite impossible to tell...mostly is together liao then noe is infatuation rather than love =p
  
  Givache
• tinydot

  26 Oct 02, 19:23

  As a general rule of thumb, infatuation is a feeling of emotion while real love involves a commitment and devotion. It can also be based on physical attraction; often you don't know much in-depth about the person you so-called love. Thus, infatuation is mostly biological.
  
  Then, infatuation is basically selfish where real love is basically selfless . Infatuation is usually more interested in satisfying yourself and the "feeling" than it is in the other person.
  
  Real love is primarily interested in the other person. It seeks to give instead of get. Love unselfishly seeks the highest good for the other person.
  
  Lastly, infatuation is weakened by time and separation but not love. However, this does not mean that there will be no pain in separation. On the contrary, there is great pain, even to distress, in separation if you are truly in love.
  
  And the last golden rule, TIME will always tell you the answer.
  
  cheers.
  
• xavier1979

  27 Oct 02, 16:40

  Originally posted by tinydot:

  And the last golden rule, TIME will always tell you the answer.

  This is the answer you are looking for.
• duotiga83

  27 Oct 02, 16:43

  hhhmmm..seems tt most of us got those problems...hhhmmm...