Love is the emotion that you feel once you know someone for a period of time and come to relish everything about them and their personality. If you don t really know someone, you can t feel the emotion of love. Instead, you ve got a touch of love s ugly brother, infatuation. Infatuation is by default a selfish emotion. If your answers revolve around yourself such as the pleasurable feelings you think this person will bring you, you ve been hit with a case of infatuation.
Infatuation can be a tricky little bastard, though.
Sometimes it can get so powerful that you may even confuse it with love. When this happens, it s best to do a little bit of honest soul searching. Remember, love takes time to develop - if you ve known a person for two weeks, you most likely have a case of infatuation. However, don t despair if that person you recently thought you loved turns out to be simple case of infatuation. Love can easily develop from infatuation - in fact, that is the main way it does develop.