In love vs. loving someone!

Real love is when you stick with the same person. Being inlove is easy when you harldy know someone but when you know all their faults and still can look at them and love them than its really love. The other is just the illusion of loving them. I said it before its harder to hate someone you know and love someone you know compared to easily hating someone you dont really know or loving them.

it depends on how you feel it i guess.. shall we say you love a guy that is bot related to you, its admiration or crush like you want to see him everyday, and a desire that you want him be with you forever... in the otherhand some love could be different, like a love to your family, friends, god etc.

Yes- I totally agree 100% with you- Being in love with someone and loving someone are different. I am in love with my sig. other- He is my soul mate- through thick and thin- I love my daughter- with every part of my soul, body and heart- I am not in love with her (that is for my partner) but I love her- Just as important- just different things- I love dearly my best friend- I would do anything for her- but I’m not in love with her- Your friends are wrong. I must say though- that I do not love my daughter’s father- I’m not in love with him nor do I love him.

Very much like you I believe there is an obvious difference. Love someone is like family and friends and just people who you care for deeply and would worry about. In love with someone is like a partner. Someone who you want to share everything with. And then you have the whole other category on in lust with someone where it could just be temporary and is almost an obsession and it just ruled by the chemicals in your brain. If you friends don't know the difference then they obviously are not in love with someone.

I see it the way you do. You can love a person without being in love with them. Ex. you love your parent, children, and friends, but your not in love with them. And you will always love your ex because he is the father of you child and will always be a part of you.

I completely agree with you on this one. In both versions of loving, the need and desire to protect and be around them is there. But when you're in love with someone, it usually goes farther as to having the desire to want to be intimate with someone. That's not usually there with other types of love such as loving your parents. Either types of love that, after an argument, usually you'll feel bad about the argument, even if you know you're wrong, just because you upset people. When you're *in* love, though, those feelings are all stronger. You want to hold the world for the one you're in love with so they don't have to worry themselves with the problems that they're facing in their life. Usually, you want to spend abnormally large amounts of time with them. I suppose there is a difference. So yeah...

Being 'in love' with someone means that you do stupid, illogical things that you might live to regret later... Loving someone, I guess, means that you've gotten past the stupid stage and still feel a strong connection to that person.

I agree with you. I love all my close friends, but I'm not in love with them. I'm in love with one special person, and always will be. I love my parents and siblings, my family, my kids and my grandkids, but I'm not in love with them. There is definitely a difference, but I daresay your friends will find that out in their own good time. Brightest Blessings.