Infatuation , and not love? Or could you be in love and infatuated both?

I think infatuation comes first then either develops or not into love it’s like I have always been infatuated with Tom Cruise but will never be really in love with him. I do agree the feelings we feel in both situations give us that high that is just here’s to feeling both all the time

I hope I answered correctly lol if not oh well

Infatuation is a sickness, Love is real.

I disagree, although I believe it can become a sickness, if turns into an obsession.

I believe there's infatuation in the beginning of relationships, that "oh so good feeling" you have when you meet someone and they are always on your mind.

Love can definitely develop from infatuation, and once in love, there are times when you can become infatuated with that person all over again. It's what adds a little zest or fire to the relationship. To me it's more like "falling in love all over again" with the one you love.

I feel it's unrealistic to think or believe that those feelings of infatuation or "Awww" are going to be there all the time. That's when it can become an obsession or problem. When we are constantly looking for that initial feeling we had when we were simply infatuated.

Relationships, imo, have highs, lows, and in betweens. Discovering new things about each other or as the relationship grows, we can feel that infatuation at different times throughout the relationship. At least I would hope so.

I've met couples who have healthy lasting relationships. The majority of them have had moments of infatuation or "falling in love again" at different times throughout their relationship. It's nice when you hear them say, "I fell in love with him all over again".

I've been infatuated but was not in love! I have been in love but not infatuated. Infatuation is like a myth.

Yes.
Could be.

Could also depend entirely on how you personally see "love."

I mean infatuation by its very nature is short lived.

And lots of people say, mean, and feel something like they "love these cookies!" but get sick of eating them pretty quickly.
Or "love their job" and a year later start to hate it and will quit.

Of course some people will read that and think/say/type something like "well, that's silly...that's not like real true love."

But then you ask some of them for some definition of love.

At best you'll get some nonsense about love being timeless and forebber and ebber living together in heaven no time limit or time frame, the "real" or "true" or "truly real" love, like love love, not love, love. (at worst you'll start getting a list of behaviors and personal associated feelings)

Good luck coming up with a definition and time constraints for the development and longevity of "love" that everyone can agree to, believe in, and no one can argue against or find exceptions to.

Touché or cliche

and ss not or

but back to the op yes and yes

infatuation can be fleeting and it can spring up after love grows

Touché Eric lol

Good answer!

One definition of love! Doesn't matter how many opinions there are!

For those infatuated with the idea of love, it's probably infatuation.

Well, in my interpretation, "in love" and "infatuation" are two ways of saying the same thing. What I would say is different from those two twin terms, is simply "love." As in the long term dedication to another person.

I remember well, how often I overheard, or participated in earnest discussions between various twenteen people (when I was one) about whether one of us LOVED someone, or were instead, IN LOVE with them. It was quite a sticky argument.

I don't know how many times I heard some one telling their soon-to-be depressed friend, that they LOVED them, but they were not IN LOVE with them, and so they were moving on. Back then, being IN LOVE, was more highly valued than just plain love, because the IN LOVE feeling was so intense and sexually energetic. Everyone associated the simple "love" idea, with things like parents who "love" you, or siblings who "love" you, or even platonic friends who "love" you. Everyone wanted to spend their nights between the sheets with the people who they were IN LOVE with, the implication being that that was the long term goal, to be passionately IN LOVE with someone, and wed their lives together because of that.

It was only after several VERY painful experiences, that many of us began to back away from the "in love" experience, and see it for the drug-induced illusion that it so often was.