If you answered ‘yes’ to all of these questions, then you may really be in love. If not, then maybe you should wait until you can answer ‘yes’ to these questions, before calling it love. Both love and infatuation are intense feelings for another person, and it is often difficult to work out the difference.

Infatuation

Infatuation with another person is when you get so carried away with your feelings for that person that the feeling itself can be almost an addiction. Infatuation is often rooted in a person’s physical beauty or sexual appeal. When one person is infatuated with another, he or she will most likely be blind to their faults, thinking that the other is perfect in every way. A person who is infatuated will sometimes feel like they own the other person, and will be jealous or paranoid of losing him or her. Infatuation is often weakened by time and separation.

Love

Love, on the other hand, is unconditional, always puts the other person first, and will sacrifice anything for them, even if that means letting that person go. Love sees the other person in an honest light—the good things and the bad things—and accepts that person anyway. Love is more focused on giving than on getting, is other-centered not self-centered.