Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Love Versus Infatuation

Does anyone want to know what should churn their nerves? Relationships that confuse love with infatuation. The difference between the two is indefinitely far apart. According to psychcentral.com, Love is what brings out the best in individuals. Researchers say that love involves a flexible relationship which can adjust to the changes life may induce. Love should contain the sharing of emotions and symbolic feelings towards another person. In public, public display of affection is tolerable if the relationship seems legit, and the PDA is limited to a certain extent. Otherwise, the couple should be viewed as pitiful, fake, ridiculous, and in other words, infatuated.



Infatuation is quite different. The idea of love is fake and discreetly overlapped when dealing with infatuation. People who are infatuated with one another usually tend to try and spend every moment they can with the other person. Time spent together is usually a good indicator as to whether or not the relationship involves love or infatuation. The excessive and irrelevant use of the "L" word is also a good way to spot infatuation. To innocent bystanders of infatuated lovers, these actions can be quite aggravating. Everyone in the world can see that the relationship will shortly end, but for some reason, the two "infatuatees" are unable to. Most people can see that the relationship only exists for the obvious reasons of physical benefits.








1 comment:

  1. One of my favorite posts my young friend. I think many of us feel this way when observing relationships, especially in high school. Infatuation is ridiculous, and quite frankly, absurd for everyone around it. We have some people in this very room that should take heed..... seriously.

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