Are you in love or in heat?

@bingskee (5234)
Philippines
September 10, 2010 2:51am CST
I have always said that there is a thin line between love and lust. As written in one of my hubpages, "Above and below this boundary are similar feelings and emotions, and parallel sensation or excitement. You can identify that fluttering feeling in the stomach, for example, as falling in love only to discover later that it is simply physical attraction." Had you experienced discovering that you were not really in love with someone but was only physically attracted? I am actually wondering about the burden of having an emotional investment with someone one is not really in love with. How could one get out of that situation?
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Ayeizsha
@gaiza12 (4884)
• Philippines
13 Sep 10
No, i haven't felt falling in love for physical aspects only..only once in my life that i have experienced love and never can i say that it i am only after lust as well. If it ever happens to me, falling for someone physically then i will tell the person even if i will be hurting him. I don't want to be carry the burden much longer for it will only cause more pain.
bingskee
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
13 Sep 10
that's a good disposition, gaiza.
Lore2009
@Lore2009 (7378)
• United States
10 Sep 10
Yes, there was a time when I thought I was in love but I was just lonely. Now that I think back to that, I am very mortified and disgusted.
bingskee
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
11 Sep 10
that could happen. it is good to realize what made one think he or she is in love when he or she is really not in love.
redhotpogo
@redhotpogo (4401)
• United States
10 Sep 10
Both. Can you ever really be truly in love with someone if you don't also feel passion for them? I don't think so.
bingskee
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
10 Sep 10
that is why there is a thin line. some others mistook passion or lust for being in love. love is a deeper feeling. do you say that before feeling in love you feel the intense feeling of lust first? is it not falling in love all about the person and his character or his being and not all about feeling the intensity of physical attraction?
hardworkinggurl
@hardworkinggurl (37063)
• United States
10 Sep 10
Yes there is a mass confusion between the two. Being in love means accepting all the good and the bad times. Working together to live descent prosperous lives. I identify that Lust is merely infatuation and when a hard and difficult come upon there is no longer working towards anything but wanting to get out. So there is a major, major difference that at times people confuse one for the other.
bingskee
@bingskee (5234)
• Philippines
11 Sep 10
a relationship that is not founded in true love will never last. to be in love is a far deeper feeling.
kayra1
@kayra1 (77)
•
10 Sep 10
To call a feeling as love or lust is not always up to only one person I believe. Sometimes it can be a great love and sometimes it can only be a lust just because of the reaction of the person that this feeling is oriented.