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Topic: Can you love someone without being infatuated with them?
RainbowTrout Joined Fri 04/06/07 Posts: 13869	Sun 04/01/12 07:15 AM
Just curious.

patsfan64 Joined Fri 03/14/08 Posts: 1258	Sun 04/01/12 07:28 AM
Yes, I love most of my friends without being infatuated with them...well, most of them.

pennyg281 Joined Thu 11/08/07 Posts: 4348	Sun 04/01/12 07:30 AM
Yes every relationship is different. Some times you see them and are immediately overwhelmed. other times love comes softly like the fog . . .it slowly creeps in and before you know it your lost.

TammyA Joined Sat 03/10/12 Posts: 300	Sun 04/01/12 07:34 AM
Yes, and here's why: Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoned passion or love: addictive love. Usually, one is inspired with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone. You may not be immediately infatuated with someone but grow to love this person.

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Sun 04/01/12 07:35 AM
Can you love someone without being infatuated with them? Sure can. You can also be infatuated with someone, but not love them. They are two separate things.

pyxxie13 Joined Wed 09/28/11 Posts: 3835	Mon 04/02/12 08:36 AM
Gosh I hope so ..because if not... I been doing it wrong for a long time.

jemare Joined Fri 04/24/09 Posts: 2105	Mon 04/02/12 10:28 AM Edited by jemare on Mon 04/02/12 10:29 AM
Yes. But if you can be in love AND infatuated with your partner for several decades...well that is a rarity that few will ever have known.

boonedoggy61 Joined Fri 09/09/11 Posts: 10425	Mon 04/02/12 11:06 AM


josie68 Joined Mon 11/22/10 Posts: 6270	Mon 04/02/12 03:36 PM
I love my man and am totally infatuated with him. I like it like that.

indianadave4 Joined Wed 02/09/11 Posts: 1308	Wed 04/04/12 06:19 PM
Gosh I hope so ..because if not... I been doing it wrong for a long time. A relationship shouldn't be based on infatuation. However, having a bit show up now and then is healthy and fun.

khiwarrior Joined Sun 04/01/12 Posts: 434	Wed 04/04/12 07:25 PM
yes

Filmfreek Joined Sat 11/15/08 Posts: 2541	Wed 04/04/12 07:37 PM
Personally, I see infatuation or obsession more as an external thing. Love is more internal.

machug Joined Sun 09/04/11 Posts: 6601	Wed 04/04/12 09:20 PM
I love my friends, and not infatuated with 99% of them. LOL.

funches Joined Sat 12/01/07 Posts: 12948	Thu 04/05/12 05:42 AM
Can you love someone without being infatuated with them? Love requires infatuation...or it's not Love...it's "Like" Kojak use to love everyone...even the people he shot ....pow pow pow....who loves ya baby some are even commanded to love...even their enemies some claim that they love someone but are not in love with that someone...WTF? Love is a term used oh so loosely that it no longer have meaning which is why The Government had to step in and set a standard as to what Love is...a marriage license

jaded72 Joined Tue 12/06/11 Posts: 1456	Mon 04/09/12 10:20 PM
Yes. Personally, I like it best when loving someone turns into bring infatuated with them, too. Hot stuff!

Miztrish Joined Thu 10/07/10 Posts: 35	Fri 05/25/12 02:13 AM
Yes. Because infatuation is only attraction from the outside while love is from the inside. :)

Citizen_Joe Joined Sat 04/12/08 Posts: 4036	Fri 05/25/12 02:59 AM
Just curious. In the purest sense, yes. In fact, if you can be selfless and give simply because it's needed, you've committed an act of love.

Rawrr_Girl Joined Sun 10/04/09 Posts: 4431	Fri 05/25/12 09:09 PM
I'm infatuated with Seth Gabel, but I know I don't love him.

Kahurangi Joined Thu 04/26/12 Posts: 1970	Sat 05/26/12 04:33 PM
Love is what remains when the infatuation ends.... Or not

indianadave4 Joined Wed 02/09/11 Posts: 1308	Sat 05/26/12 06:22 PM
When all infatuation stops the relationship will begin to cool. Infatuation is like sex: sex is not the foundation but without sex (and some amount of infatuation) things begin to cool.