Is It Love or Infatuation?

When you finally meet the person who excites you and makes your heart skip a beat, you tend to feel that you have met ‘the one’. It seems that you had waited for them all your life and finally, they are here. Life seems so perfect and so right.

The feeling that you experience, is not like anything else that you might have experienced before. You begin to day dream and find yourself incapable of reasonable thought. It never even occurs to you that you might be just infatuated and not really in love.

When things are going well in your relationship, you hardly feel the need to put it under the lens and see whether what you are feeling is real love or not.

You forget to ask yourself if you are really feeling comfortable with your new partner or if it’s just that you want to feel comfortable with someone. Is it the fear of being alone that attracts you to the other person or is there really something special about them? Sometimes we are so in love with the idea of being in love that we overlook all signs and signals and end up in a relationship going nowhere.

There is a thin line between love and infatuation. Many times, people mistake infatuation for love and suffer for it. The initial signs are all the. You think of your love interest all the time. Your heart flutters when you see them or talk to them. You dream of them constantly and pine for them. However, there is one major difference between the two.

Infatuation is essentially characterized by expectations of passion that are often unrealistic. The practical aspects of growth are completely ignored. There is no thought of commitment. Or if there is one, there is no real thought given to the hard work that goes behind love and the commitment that it entails.

There is no standard fool proof method of knowing the difference between love and infatuation. However there are plenty of signs that you can pick in your daily conversations and interactions.

Being in love is not something that you would want to be mistaken about. So be are sure of what you feel.