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Love Lust
Associated with:Emotional and intellectual compatibilityPhysical chemistry
Sub-Categories:Lust, Romantic Love, AttachmentNA
Stimulants:Dopamine, Norepinephrine(Adrenaline), Serotonin, Oxytocin, VasopressinTestosterone & Oestrogen
Feelings associated with:Elation or a euphoric feeling, Loss of appetiteFocused Attention and sexual arousal
Interdependency:Cannot sustain without lustNot associated with love
Person to Person:Two working together to make it workOne working for oneself to make it work
Symptoms:Connection of your soul with someone else's. It's settling your differences, dealing with conflicts as one person, not two seperate entities. It's sharing your life experience & being the other person's friend. Love is pure & comes without decisionThe desire and whim that everything is yours. No thought put forward into the other person. No compromising. A completely shallow way of believing you're in love
Attribute:Not expecting anything in return and desiring the best for the other personCaring about some thing or some person because of what it or he or she can offer us
Definition:Constellation of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound onenessAny intense desire or craving for self gratification mostly sexual desire
Meaning:A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.Intense sexual desire or appetite.

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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So me & my cat don't count?
- by 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
- by 59.96.158.211 on 2009-10-09 10:32:51
luv is nothing to those that cherish lust
- by 196.46.245.21 on 2009-09-04 09:04:12
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"Cannot sustain without lust"?? What about children/mother/familiy/friends? Definition biased towards romantic love/couples only.
- by 212.145.212.247 on 2009-06-03 07:57:49