I Love You vs Im IN LOVE with you

i been thinking are they the same thing?
Before I get into my thoughts I'd like to get your opinion on the subject.

i think love doesnt exist.

From Wikepedia:

In his socio-psychological theory Francesco Alberoni states that falling in love is a process of the same nature as religious or political conversion.

People fall in love when they are ready to change, or to start a new life.

According to Alberoni, falling in love is a rapid process of destructuration-reorganization called the nascent state. In the nascent state, the individual becomes capable of merging with another person and creating a new collectivity with a very high degree of solidarity. Hence the definition: falling in love is the nascent state of a collective movement formed of two people only.

In order to understand if someone is truly in love, the individual must be put to truth tests and, in order to find out if he or she is loved in return, the beloved is also put to reciprocal tests. The incandescent process of the nascent state through these tests gives way to certainty and produces a stable love relationship. According to Alberoni, the phenomenology of falling in love is the same for young people and adults, for men and women and for homosexuals and heterosexuals: this is because the structure of the nascent state is always the same.

Unlike the theories consolidated by psychoanalysis, the sociologist does not consider falling in love as a regression, but instead sees it as launching oneself towards the future and change, and thus as fundamental to the formation of a couple in love.

see so it doesnt exist then
....its just ur brain playing tricks on u

"i think love doesnt exist."

It does, just not in the way we conditionally understand it.

Love = Life ...

all these other emotions are just (affection + infatuation + passion) x ego

You love your family and friends (and quite possibly chocolate, music, a sunny day at the beach, etc) You may be "in love" with someone you want a romance with. Yes there's a difference. The point is loving someone does not guarantee there's a romance involved.

Somechick is on point.

"Love= Life" How so? In what way? Is love just love? What is love?"

well... for me... I understand without love nothing grows...families & friendships grow through life because of love. Your talents & passions grow & change through life because you love to cultivate them, learn more about them... accept some for what they are, let some die all for the love of them.

Thats what life is to me, the growth of. Not a series of mundane events & encounters that we all tend to go at mechanically. When we love in general, we accept, have compassion for, and understand... allowing all things we encounter to co-exist and grow.