The primary goal of sexual attraction is sexual gratification, whereas the primary goal of love is spiritual gratification. Sexual gratification is interchangeable and can be accomplished within a group, with any number of different partners, even alone. Spiritual gratification is exclusive and is not group oriented, does require devotion of ones partners, and cannot be accomplished as a solitary event. Sexual gratification leads to mutual sexual intercourse, spiritual gratification leads to the coupling of two souls. Sexual attractions ultimately lead to sexual frustrations, and sexual anxiety.
Love ultimately leads to spiritual healing, and spiritual completeness.
Next to sexual attraction, infatuation is the next most difficult relationship to distinguish from love. In fact, only time can show the differences. With both love and infatuation, one is constantly concerned with pleasing, comforting, being with, and talking to the other. The difference is that with infatuation, after a certain degree of intimacy, the fire is soon replaced with boredom. Love, as distinct from infatuation, constantly renews itself, recharges itself, and is renewed by itself.