How can you tell if it’s real love or infatuation?
“Are you truly in love, or are you infatuated with that one?” Love and Infatuation are both emotions that make someone feel passionate towards someone or something. Although they have different ways of expressing there emotions, how intense it may or may not be, and the hormones, they both carry strong feelings of affection for a person which complicates the matter of sorting out the differences because many of the symptoms overlap another. Studies show that most people tend to rate past relationships as infatuation and present relationships as real love. Without a doubt a lot of past romances would have been described as love if the study had been performed while that romance was in progress. People usually experience infatuation six or seven times and real love only once or twice. The main question is, how can a person tell if it’s real love or only infatuation?
Infatuation feels the same as love and the intensity of feelings is just as strong in both. That’s the trouble Infatuation appears real. There are different ways a person emotions are expressed when they are in love and when they are infatuated. Passion may be present without true love. It is entirely possible, passion alone is no indicator of true love. Furthermore no one can maintain such fierce passion for long. If all a couple has going for them is passion, the relationship will likely end quickly. The desire to be near one another constantly can be just as overwhelming in infatuation as in true love. A person may wish to be together all the time, dreading the time when their apart. They may feel empty and lonely when their loved one is not with them, but this does not necessarily indicate real love. The desire to be near someone can be just as strong in infatuation as in true love. If a person is lonely, bored or getting over a broken romance, they are more likely to interpret a new romance as true love when it is little more than...