Relationships: How do you know when it is more than just lust?

[battleknight24]

How do you know when it is love?


Peace,

[KitchenWitch]

1. Can you imagine yourself waking up next to him/her in ten years?

[RetroLounge]

10. Exactly...

RL

[Robeson]

2. When they have that zit on their back, they just can't reach.....

...and you do it for them, it's love.

[Bucky]

3. Schiavo test: If they went into a permanent coma, would you stay on?

Of course there's always the seven-year coma clause in any marriage contract. But if it's true love, you wait for the full seven years.

[battleknight24]

4. (OP here) The thing is...

... I am currently seeing this girl and lets just say we... uh... have a LOT of lust for each other. And we both enjoying being with each other when we are not... you know... doing other things(!). But, since we have only been dating for 4 or 5 weeks, I'm not sure if it is love that I feel or if it is mostly lust.


Peace,

[radwriter0555]

9. 4 weeks? Far, far too soon to start putting definitions and terms and

conditions on the relationship.

Relax, enjoy, appreciate, and even get real crazy and say "I LOVE YOU" if that is what you are feeling at the moment. They're great words to feel and it's wonderful to hear them.

Love isn't defined by time, it just is whatever it happens to be between you at the moment.

Enjoy! ENJOY! ENJOY! It's sooooo much fun being in that giddy space, isn't it?

Smile, relax, boink your little heads off, and laugh and have a great time!

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. What KW said, plus

when every time you think of something you want to do, you imagine it with him or her, and without 'em it seems hardly worth doing.

[In_The_Wind]

8. You are both right.

Or when your thinking I'd enjoy this more if only we could be sharing it.

[JVS]

6. When you are driven insane

[BikeWriter]

7. Good answer, JVS.