What is the difference between love and a crush?

In my opinion their is heaven and hell difference between love and a crush. Crush is mostly defined as lust. That is what your body wants. but love is something where your heart comes first and your body comes next. If you are living with your girlfriend for 4 years without getting any physical satisfaction and you still care for her then believe me your love is true.i can bet on it.

I am going to assume you mean more than crush, as I felt that on guys I'd barely spoken to, and well the difference there is kinda obvious. I'm going to guess you are refering to someone you are either dating or pretty close to, in which case I see that as more of infatuation. Anyway, I don't think anyone realizes that what they felt was not love until after the fact. I think you're pretty much going to assume you are in love. At least, that's how I was, and I can only speak for me. The difference for me is a sense of peace and contentment when I look in my husband's eyes. Oh, I could say that the difference is that I want to grow old and die with him, that I would do anything for him, etc, but we all say that about our crushes, too. No the difference is that the guy I was infatuated with made my heart race like crazy (good) but never did I feel a sense of peace, that everything was right with the world, and as long as I had him, I could live through any thing. Instead of being giddy with intense emotions, I feel a very deep, true to the core love. Part of that is going to be time, too, because everyone is going to feel the heart racing, giddy thing in the beginning, and the down to the core of your being feeling takes time. But I'm sure some people CAN feel those things towards people they don't really love. So it's all going to be personal. The guy I was infatuated with? Yeah, I can admit that it wasn't real love. But a part of me still insists that it was, because that's how I felt at the time.