How can you tell the difference between infatuation and love?

Its not easy to differentiate between love and infatuation...girls may can but we the boys specially the ameteur ones cannot differentiate between these two..Experience may help to distinguish else its extremely troublesome...Whatever I am saying is all from a view of a boy...Unable to paint the scenary from the view of a girl...when we grow old..nearly 14 years..we feel something..we want something but due to lack of experience we cannot understood which one is true....Love cannot be expressed so easily between it doesn't happen accidentally...we may feel for someone but it may not be love, her beauty, attitude, impressive behaviour, nature and personality can draw all your attention, but the fact is if it is not real love then it won't last long..the attraction will surely fade away..we may feel bored, but if it is true loveyou won't feel boring in anyway...we boys cannot read the mind of the girls, we cannot pretend so easily like the girls..we are straight forward...I can just say infatuation can happen at any time, at any moment, at any hour but love cannot bloom in all of a sudden..

yess i definitely can..first of all when you see a person and you feel that you have those kind of feelings for him/her its only an initial liking..more of an infatuation..you are just moved by that someone's good looks and attitude..thats all..love cannot happen like that..it only happens when you get to know the other person really well,you start caring about that person,help him/her out in every situation,you think about their happiness more than yours,you listen to their problems,grudges..and maybe you would get bored if someone else tell you the same but you are happy and pleased to do the same for that specuial person..thats when you know you are in love....we always get crushes..i am sure we had our 1st,2nd..so on crushes and these were ll infatuations becuse i believe you don't fall in love that easily..and love happens rarely..infatuations are easy ...

Is it possible to both be in love and infatuated? I suppose that would be a good question to ask before asking the question you proposed.

i think it is love when you get to feel pain... infatuation is just an admiration to a particular somebody just because of his/her certain looks, attitude, talent, or etc. the basis of your affection for somebody is because there is something to them that you just like that when he/she no longer has it you begun to get discouraged, while in love, you learn to accept all of his/her weaknesses...

Hi there, is a big difference, this is sure; love is unique, and why not, true love is very hard to find it. Are peoples who never find love in all life. But because peoples, in special man, don t know very well what love is, because they are more attracted with a imagine, not with a pure soul. Love hurt. Love can make somebody smile and cry in same time. Love is when somebody really care and make EVERYTHING to be with who they love. They never give up, and make all efforts to have somebody love; but, in life, people usual don t apreciate real love, they pass very easy to other oportunity, in special man(again man). Infatuation is all what is not true love; i am sorry to say that you are right, when people know that is not love and is infatuation...is to late, and they will hurt somebody for all life, and will broke somebody else life.

Infatuation and love cannot be explicitly observed but experienced. Every relationship begins with some kind of infatuation where there are no strings attached though there is a certain amount of emotional feeling of "love". Infatuation later turns to love when a couple gets to know each other better. When a better person comes along, you'd leave your present partner because it's not love; it's merely infatuation. It's therefore not possible to determine if a person is infatuated or in love. Only time will tell the difference.

Infatuation: The man is perfect, he has no flaws, you cannot quit smiling and you run into things constantly because he's always on your mind (and the only thing on your mind). It's short-term. Love: You see flaws in your man, but you still accept him unconditionally. You have occasional spats, but making up is where the love is more than evident and you vow never to say bad things to one another again. Hate: You argue all of the time. He digusts you and you are not happy to see him. You can no longer tolerate (on any level) the flaws that are now driving you in sane and up a wall to a point of feeling "postal." That's it in a nutshell. Love is selfless. Love is sacrificing your happiness for theirs. When you're infatuated with someone, your goal is for you to be the one they want to make happy. You may be willing to make some sacrifices, but not at the cost someone IN LOVE would make.

infatuation is a feeling,real love involves a commitment also,intatuation is just love of emotion,real love though,is love of devotion.only the emoution are effected by infatuation,but in real love both the emotion and will are involved.a person "fall into" infatuation,but "grow into" real love,