Love vs Lust
Love is an intense feeling of affection and care towards another person. It is a profound and caring attraction. On the other hand, lust is a strong desire of a sexual nature.
Comparison chart
| Improve this chart | Love | Lust |
|---|---|---|
| Interdependency: | partnership | Not connected with love; not always sexual, can be for money too. |
| Associated with: | Decision to devote yourself to another person for better or worse | Physical chemistry |
| Attribute: | Communicates and negotiates appropriate expectations.. requires a lot of selflessness and polite assertiveness | Caring about some thing or some person because of what it or he or she can give to us. |
| Definition: | a decision to commit oneself to another and to work through conflicts instead of giving up | Any intense desire or craving for self gratification including sex |
| Feelings associated with: | A deep affection; contentment, confidence | Focused Attention on sex, confusion, stress |
| Sub-Categories: | intimacy, commitment, security | sexual desire |
| Symptoms: | Faithfulness, confidence. willingness to make sacrifices for another. working at settling differences. Able to compromise so that either both win or at least give the other person's opinion a chance | The desire and belief that everything is yours. No thought put into the other persons feeling or cares. |
| Person to Person: | Committment to another | Selfish concerns dominate |
| Meaning: | steadfast decision to commit yourself to another person | Intense sexual desire |
| Result: | Security, peace, a solid partnership which can provide the ideal atmospher to raise confident secure children; a more stable society; radical decrease in the need for welfare, jails, lawyers and mental health counselors | the hunger for lust grows & can cause damage if not healed or handled properly |
| Time Period: | Love takes time. feelings come and go.. No feeling lasts forever. No matter how much you love someone, if you live with them, there will be days when you loathe the sight of them. A decision to love does not depend on feelings or harmones |
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