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Experts explain how to tell the difference between infatuation vs. love, including whether infatuation can ever turn into real love.
There’s a fine line between love and infatuation. According to Robert J. Sternberg’s theory of love , infatuation is rooted in passion;...
If you're wondering, "Am I in love?" there are key differences between love, infatuation, and a crush. Here are 16 signs it's real, per relationship therapists.
"It is customary to view young people's dating relationships and first relationships as puppy love or infatuation"; [6] and if infatuation is both an early stage in a deepening sequence of love/attachment, and at the same time a potential stopping point, it is perhaps no surprise that it is a condition especially prevalent in the first, youthful explorations of the world of relationships.
The dictionary lists two dozen different meanings of the word "love". And how does one distinguish between love and affection, liking, fondness, caring, concern, infatuation, attraction, or desire? [...] Acknowledgment of a distinction between love as a verb, as an action taken by the individual, and love as a state is awkward.
Passionate love, "a state of intense longing for union with another. Reciprocated love (union with the other) is associated with fulfillment and ecstasy; unrequited love (separation) is associated with emptiness, anxiety, or despair." [1] [3] Companionate love, "the affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined." [1] [3]
There's a thin line between infatuation and love. Ahead, relationship experts explain how to tell the difference between the two and the signs of both.
The other forms are liking (intimacy), companionate love (intimacy and commitment), empty love (commitment), fatuous love (passion and commitment), and infatuation (passion). Studies on Sternberg's theory love found that intimacy most strongly predicted marital satisfaction in married couples, with passion also being an important predictor ...