I don’t think I know the difference between love and lust

Lust is solely about ones selfish sexual desire towards someone else and Love is about truly caring about someone else's feelings, intimacy, doing the right thing, staying honest and loyal etc...
at least that's how I perceive it
 
Love is caring for them for their benifit.
lust is caring for them for your own benefit


I don't think they are mutually exclusive.
 
I know how you feel, i do love my wife and would die for her but the feeling inside my chest when my kids want to give me a kiss or cuddle unannounced is like nothing i have ever felt before.

I know its a cliche but my chest actually does feel like its swelling and about to burst when my kids are involved
 
Kinda cliché but it's when she completes you and want to complete her too. Could be with cum, that's how babies are made.
 
Cut your dick off and take those shots/pills that lower sexual appetite, if after that you still wanna pass your life with your woman, you know it is love.
 
i posted this earlier in the Christian thread, figured it was related to this as well. Greek Christians thought there were 4 kinds of love:

Eros (/ˈɪərɒs/ or /ˈɛrɒs/; Ancient Greek: ἔρως érōs "love" or "desire") is one of the four ancient Greco-Christian terms which can be rendered into English as "love". The other three are storge, philia, and agape. Eros refers to "passionate love" or romantic love; storge to familial love; philia to friendship as a kind of love; and agape refers to "selfless love", or "charity" as it is translated in the Christian scriptures (from the Latin caritas, dearness).

The term erotic is derived from eros. Eros has also been used in philosophy and psychology in a much wider sense, almost as an equivalent to "life energy".

en.wikipedia.org

Eros (concept) - Wikipedia

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Love and Lust are the things you feel for her while she is using you and weighing her options.

And if she ends up deciding that you're good enough for the long haul, you get to act on that lust like once a month! Just make sure you beg hard enough, do all your chores, disconnect from your friends (they make her uncomfortable because she can sense that you are more happy around them), ect.
 
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Grinchy said:
Love and Lust are the things you feel for her while she is using you and weighing her options.

And if she ends up deciding that you're good enough for the long haul, you get to act on that lust like once a month! Just make sure you beg hard enough, do all your chores, disconnect from your friends (they make her uncomfortable because she can sense that you are more happy around them), ect.
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this guy knows whats up.
 
Love is an unconditional sense of care for another human being, man or woman. It happens over time.

Lust is when you want to get your jimmy up in that grill and confuse yourself. We've all been there.
 
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Love (meaning different manifestations often identified or called as love) and lust are both survival phenomena tools, although lust is more related to mating. But I agree that love as a broad, general, unified concept, is a construct.
 
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I've been through several LTRs, got married, divorced, another LTR, and then married again.

For me it took a combination of age, maturity, and the right woman to truly understand actual selfless love.

Prior to that, my understanding was a combination of chasing storybook emotional love, lust, and a sense of duty and obligation. All of those can be good things in measured amounts but they don't really equate to love.
 
Lust is the glue that keeps Love together, otherwise you have a broken heart.
 
Lust is the biological need to procreate, creating a haze in the mind, filling it to the brim.

Love is a pattern of behaviour. Joking together, shopping together, making babies, taking care of each other, mourning a loss. These are all different emotions, but the pattern is love.
 
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I think you probably love your parents, love your kids, maybe even love some of your friends when you're young. I also 100% loved my ex, but she didn't really loved me, but I can't really blame her, it's not like I ever loved any other so but her.
Can lust ever become love? I kinda hope so, but i'm getting kinda hopeless tbh.
 
Lust is when you let biological urges for release cloud your own thoughts.

Love is when you care and work hard for your partner and not for your selfish desires.
 
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Love is when you always want to be around them

Lust is when after fucking you can't wait to get up outta there
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So weird in my youth, I could leave a girls place, completely drained of essence and sexual desire, only to see a hot girl and immediately go back into hunt mode.
 
Love is enjoying whatever moments with certain person.
Lust is that you don't care about nice moments with the person, because you are too much distracted with wanting to fuck.
 
Love is when you're fucking because you both like cats.

Lust is when you're fucking because you think they booty is thicc as shit.
 
Lust - I just want here for the physical stuff

Love - I don't even think about sex. I just want to be with that someone.

To put it simple, in the absence of sex, would you still prefer to be with that person?
 
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