Is it love or infatuation?

This is a question that beats everybody heads up. It has intrigued even the sanest and the safest of minds. How can I know if it is infatuation or if it is love…?

Now there are no ready made answers for these questions. It has existed from time immemorial. Nobody has caught the difference between the two. Even if they have, they just can’t define both as two different things…

Let’s start of by defining the two things…
Love – Love is having a deep emotional bonding with a person. Emotional attachment is different from physical attachment. When you are connected emotionally to a person, it is quite different when you are connected physically with a person.

Emotional connect is like having joyous thoughts on the very thought or sight of that person. These thoughts of happiness are more on the romantic front, and very rarely on the sexual front.

Emotional connection is like you need this person always with you. You then start to define your life based on the presence or absence of this person.

Now let’s define infatuation…

Infatuation – Most often than not infatuation is physical attraction. You are connected to each other by element of physical attractiveness or personality attractiveness. You are not connected emotionally.
You will meet many physically attractive people, or people with an attractive personality. You are attracted to them, and might be attached to them, but if you notice, their absence will not hurt you for a longer time than if you were connected to them emotionally.

So we have defined love and infatuation…
Let’s try to get down to develop some points on how to identity if it’s love or infatuation…

How do you know if it’s love or infatuation?
- If you feel a deep fright of losing that person…if you feel even your life is dependent on the presence of that person…then it is love
- If you feel you can get over the absence of that person in your life…if you feel you can carry on life without that person…and it will in no way make you happy, sad, depressed for life…then it is infatuation
- Do you still remember that person after not being in touch for a long time? and crave to be with that person? Then it is love…if not, it is infatuation