CasualFan asked:
Also, are they mutually exclusive? Like if you’re infatuated with someone you’re not in love with that person, and if you’re in love with someone you’re not infatuated with that someone. Is that how it goes?
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Also, are they mutually exclusive? Like if you’re infatuated with someone you’re not in love with that person, and if you’re in love with someone you’re not infatuated with that someone. Is that how it goes?
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Being infatuated with someone will eventually give way to feelings of negativity and possibly hostility towards the individual in question.
Love will not.
Stedman is in love with me.
I am infatuated with Gayle.
Being infatuated with someone is kind of like puppy love. it has a chance to bloom in to a full bodied head over heels in love but is still at the whole lust phase. when two people are in love it is past the lust stage and emotions are actually involved. i know for me it is a consuming need to nurture and protect my love. to give him everything he could possibly need emotionally so that he can plainly see my love. his love for me drives him to do the same. Love can be quite prettily described with poems and pretty words. but some of us prefer to show our love in how we treat each other. and save the pretty words for when we are in the midst of passion.
I think when you say you’re “in love”, infatuation is included, but you can be infatuated without really loving someone. If you’re just infatuated, then it’s implied that you don’t know enough about them yet to really love them, or perhaps you’re just lusting after them without realizing it. I was infatuated with someone because of how insanely attracted to him I was, but realized later, that his personality wasn’t as attractive to me as I told myself.
With infatuation, you’re more in love with the idea of them than who they really are.
If you have watched your partner vomit, pop a zit or take a shit and still get the warm fuzzies for them…. that’s love.
Infatuation comes first, to kind of get the ball rolling. Love comes after you’ve learned their imperfections and still want to be with them.
Being infatuated with someone means that you’re intrigued by what you don’t know about them. They’re mysterious and alluring (appealing) to your eyes and you desire to know them carnally. Now, when you’re in love with someone, you know them. You accept in and everything there is to know about them and you feel as if you can’t live with out them. You accept them flaws and all because you’ve had the courage to let go of all inhibitions and allow them the get close enough to you to be loved the same in return.
The problem with love and infatuation is that people get the two confused. People assume that if you’re infatuated with a persons physical appearance you’ve some how fallen in love with them. And when they get to know a person for who they truly are (and not just what they look like) the infatuation soon wears thin and the ‘love’ fades.
Now, you can be in love with someone you’re infatuated with; but in this instance you’re infatuated with ‘growing’ with this person in the union you’ve engaged in. Meaning you’re eager to endure the trials and tribulations that the two of you will face together and you’re eagerly anticipate the changes that the two of you will experience (both the good and the bad).
Infatuation means unrealistic expectations, nagging doubt, and often a lack of mutual understanding, and the relationship is usually based purely on sex. Love means patience, trust, and a strong emotional connection.