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| Love | Lust | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Associated with: | Emotional and intellectual compatibility | Physical chemistry | |
| Sub-Categories: | Lust, Romantic Love, Attachment | NA | |
| Stimulants: | Dopamine, Norepinephrine(Adrenaline), Serotonin, Oxytocin, Vasopressin | Testosterone & Oestrogen | |
| Feelings associated with: | Elation or a euphoric feeling, Loss of appetite | Focused Attention and sexual arousal | |
| Interdependency: | Cannot sustain without lust | Not associated with love | |
| Person to Person: | Two working together to make it work | One 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 decision | The 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 person | Caring 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 oneness | Any 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.
[edit] See Also
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Comments: Love vs Lust [Add Comments] |
| Comments on Love only |
"Cannot sustain without lust"?? What about children/mother/familiy/friends? Definition biased towards romantic love/couples only.
- by on 2009-06-03 07:57:49 |


