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.

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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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its a double edge sword with feelings and emotions but its is better to keep you heart away from that aspect you are not ready for or fully mature. heart in the end trust me

64.239.192.89 on 2009-12-04 20:03:25

So me & my cat don't count?

66.10.94.35 on 2009-10-09 21:49:29

Path towards pure love is really very difficult. Especially when you love someone by your hear and he/she betray you. You pay 100% loyalty and in return get nothing. This is such a situation where you will not be able to survive. I have asked many intellectual people about it. I have asked them what wins. Pure Love or Lust, every one has answered me that only, that Pure Love always wins. I have also asked them that to whom shall I listen ? My brain or My heart. The Answer from them was again same, You must listen to your Heart. Because God is neither in temple, nor in mosque, nor in church or any other holy place. He lives in your heart. Now I think I am getting back my love by Kind Grace of Almighty, but the empty days I have passed were so miserable. So if you follow my advice never love anyone by heart. It indeed hurts. In my case I didn't intend to love, but it had happened. Please never love. Otherwise you have to suffer a lot perhaps for life. Thank you-ismailsharif71@gmail.co

59.96.158.211 on 2009-10-09 10:32:51

luv is nothing to those that cherish lust

196.46.245.21 on 2009-09-04 09:04:12

"Cannot sustain without lust"?? What about children/mother/familiy/friends? Definition biased towards romantic love/couples only.

212.145.212.247 on 2009-06-03 07:57:49
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