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Most people cannot identify love regardless. Hell you are assuming that you can OP. It isn't just Lust people confuse for love. But also Infatuation, Attraction, Connection, Relation, Experience, Benefit, Compatability, etc.

Unconditional Love is the only real love. Everything else is extra. You can identify it when you don't need anything from a person to love them. You just do and always will, through thick and thin.
haha, I have a hard time distinguishing between infatuation and love lol

but I don't lust over people no matter how physical attractive they are unless I have feelings for them. weird?
lol im the other way around. feelings come from lust. lust comes from beauty. beauty = mind and appearance

None of which is love.

Also, if feelings come from lust. Then what about when you are already in love and lust someone else? Don't even try to say you fuckin fall for the new person Herpderp
tell me what love is then big boi

i don't believe in exclusive soulmates soz



I don't either. At all. I don't believe there is someone out there that from birth was destined to be with you. You can find someone who just happened to develop in all the ways to create the most intense connection and experience possible. But even that isn't love, actually.

The way it goes is. Everybody is scrambling to find love. They chase their urges and compellings, only to meet a dead end.

What we learn the hard way is. It was never about any of that at all. Some of us don't really understand until we lose everything. Our looks, health, etc. But love is simply the moment you decide "I am going to make this person more important to me than myself" and then you uphold that of your own volition forever.

True love is specifically when you reach the realization that all that other stuff doesn't really matter in the grand scheme. That ultimately you can live without it, and you're going to lose it all always in the end. But love will be there anyways.

Trust me. Ask any elder. Most of them parrot this. That they don't care about that shit at all, and they really mean it. Even if earlier on in life they were total sluts. Elders know what young people don't, because they are living exactly what I'm talking about. They're growing old, losing their libidos, their sexual appeal/looks, their ambition, etc.

And in being placed in what was previously thought to be a losing position. They see that Love doesn't HAVE to be about all of that. One can consciously choose to stick with someone, without it being the end of the world. Meanwhile you still get to have someone to keep you company, and you get to say that you have someone who stuck by you. That someone values you simply because you are you. That they wouldn't pick anyone else even if that anyone else was exactly like you.
Are you a Leo? Your view of Love reminds me of leos I know 🙂

Libra Sun. Although what you're saying makes sense. In retrospect what I'm saying isn't even something most Libras express.

But I do have 1 Leo placement in my whole chart. My Midheaven.

So it actually makes a shit ton of sense because. What I'm saying is what I've learned the hard way through life, even if it is somewhat recent. I came to this realization with my last ex. I love her and only her and will only ever lover her forever.

I learned true love through her because I love her truly.


Lucky her! Why is she an ex? Why did you let her go? 😭

Because she left? Which answers both questions cause, I didn't. I didn't want it at all.

She's a Leo Sun Aries Moon and from what I've gathered. She left out of selfish impulsiveness. All I wanted from her was for her to actually act like I mattered. But that just made her go in the exact opposite direction.

Simplest way I could put it.
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I am sorry. hugs

This kinda explained why your view of love reminds me of my leo friends though. i think people rub off on us over time...
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Puppy love

Roofie love

Mark wahlberg lying awake in a dark room in fear love
are those examples of love?
Yas
How about examples of lust? :p
Thigh gap lust

Sexy neck lust

Grandpa lust

Grandma lust
hahaha. I only have 1 grandparent left. I will make sure you are not around her lol
I could always put on a grandpa costume
plz post a picture of yourself in the grandpa costume! 😆
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hahah, you forgot the hat, glasses, and the sweater!


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creepy!
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I posed your question, OP, to my Capricorn whom I have been with a year and nearly two months. This is what he had to say. I typed it all up as he spoke.

"Love is caring for someone. Lust is wanting for someone. Lust and want are interchangeable, whereas love is closer to like.

Love is how I feel about you. Lust is wanting you for me, to satisfy my needs; that's not to say it's rapey.

Love is more likely to be lasting because lust can be satisfied (if I want something from you, and we have sex, it's satisfied - I may want more sex but it isn't the same lust.) Lust ends.

When I love you, it's the same love unless I learn something about you and my love changes. Actually, love is empowered by engagement. Lust is satisfied by engagement.

Like, I learned to love you by being with you. I want to be with you because I lust for you. I think most of sexuality is lust and, actually, sex is fueled by lust and love can be fuled by sex. Lust is usually important to a relationship - well, at least a sexual relationship. Love is important to a relationship where it requires patience, respect, and appreciation."
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I posed your question, OP, to my Capricorn whom I have been with a year and nearly two months. This is what he had to say. I typed it all up as he spoke.

"Love is caring for someone. Lust is wanting for someone. Lust and want are interchangeable, whereas love is closer to like.

Love is how I feel about you. Lust is wanting you for me, to satisfy my needs; that's not to say it's rapey.

Love is more likely to be lasting because lust can be satisfied (if I want something from you, and we have sex, it's satisfied - I may want more sex but it isn't the same lust.) Lust ends.

When I love you, it's the same love unless I learn something about you and my love changes. Actually, love is empowered by engagement. Lust is satisfied by engagement.

Like, I learned to love you by being with you. I want to be with you because I lust for you. I think most of sexuality is lust and, actually, sex is fueled by lust and love can be fuled by sex. Lust is usually important to a relationship - well, at least a sexual relationship. Love is important to a relationship where it requires patience, respect, and appreciation."
Your Cap is very eloquent on this subject. Impressed! I appreciate that you shared this with me. Thank you!! 🤗
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It's tricky, I cannot distinguish them but I know for sure to not take either feeling of love/lust seriously, especially lustful type of feelings.. I think the difference happens when one acts on the feelings rather.

Lustful feelings can blur your vision of a person, make him more beautiful than he is - the mind/heart starts to find reasons to like him under lust..
Thanks for sharing.

Are you an Aries? How easy/hard for you to not act on the lustful feeling? 😕
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Most people cannot identify love regardless. Hell you are assuming that you can OP. It isn't just Lust people confuse for love. But also Infatuation, Attraction, Connection, Relation, Experience, Benefit, Compatability, etc.

Unconditional Love is the only real love. Everything else is extra. You can identify it when you don't need anything from a person to love them. You just do and always will, through thick and thin.
haha, I have a hard time distinguishing between infatuation and love lol

but I don't lust over people no matter how physical attractive they are unless I have feelings for them. weird?

That is called Demisexual.

Personally I can be attracted regardless but if I develop feelings for you it becomes more intensely focused on you.


Yeah I consider myself a demisexual. I can become infatuated with someone very quickly but it never evolves because it's apparent we're not compatible once it settles in.

During that stage I'll kind of lust over them but it's because I believe I really like them when I don't even know them. Inside a real committed relationship I obviously lust way more over my partner.

I feel Aquarius lust
How do you find out if you are compatible or not when you are infatuated? 😕

I am curious because when I am infatuated, I feel I tend to ignore the red flags....
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Same. But it's usually not figuring it out. I end up getting ghosted or left for someone else 😄