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Is it Love or are you In Love?
What an interesting question. Others have posed it before. Some say there is no difference, but is that really true? Let’s take a look and you are the judge.
What is Love?
It means different things to different people. Between couples, we are taking about romantic love, Eros. You may feel an instant attraction based on their looks, how they walk or the kind of mood you’re in at the time.
This is infatuation, pure and simple. Love is a feeling that you have for someone that goes beyond the superficial. With infatuation, how can you love someone that you don’t even know?
Love is tough. If you’ve ever listened to older couples talk about the struggles they have endured in their marriages, you might wonder how they did it. You might even say they were crazy. But, love is a many-splendored thing.
Love carries with it a certain amount of responsibility. You have a vested interest in this other person. That means caring about their welfare as well as them as an individual. To that end, you will stick with them through many things because of that bond you have formed.
Love can be tenuous but it grows stronger with each new situation it encounters. You dig deep to remember what drew you to this person in the first place. Those reasons begin to change the color of the situation at hand, giving you reason to fight harder for your relationship.
Am I “In Love”?
Love has cycles. When we get to know someone, we are falling “in love” with them. Each new discovery makes us want to cling that much closer. Every opportunity to be together is taken advantage of. Remember that in your own relationship?
This type of feeling wanes but is not lost. As you get busy with the business of love (setting up house, wedding, children), a time when it was simply just the two of you and your feelings seems far off.
Kiss your partner. Really kiss them. What do you feel? What do you see in your mind’s eye? A simple kiss can warm those regions of your heart (and loins) that you thought had grown cold.
If the prospect of a night out with your partner or a few days away excites you desperately, then you have the potential to rekindle that spark. And, all it will take is uninterrupted time alone.
The Verdict
In some ways, love and being in love are intertwined. You fall in love with someone and decide to build a life with them. That love grows with each new event you share together. As that love grows more secure and stronger, you are free to re-examine what made you fall “in love” in the first place.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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