Most people find it difficult to distinguish between love and infatuation. Love is felling of intimacy and commitment to someone whom you care for. While infatuation is a strong passion for somebody that prevents one from thinking in a sensible way. Someone in love can say the reason for being in love, but an infatuated fellow cannot say why he or she is in love. Infatuation is not true love. It is a blind love that goes hand in hand with lust.
How then do we know when we are in love or just infatuated? When you become unnecessarily excited when a particular guy or lady is around, it is a sign that you are in love. It is not natural for someone to be happy whenever a particular person is around, it is a sign that he or she is in love. It is unnatural for someone to be excited whenever every guy or lady is around. Someone can only get excited when somebody he or she loves is around. We only get excited only when we are with some we love. For example, a woman will get excited only when a man she loves is around. If he or she is always on your mind, you get excited for being around him or her, it shows that you are in love with him or her.
People don’t usually think of things that are not important to them. When something is on you mind constantly, then that thing is likely to be important to you. If you become conscious of your looks just because you think he or she may admire you, it shows that you really feel something for him or her. Most people don’t dress or make up for the fun of dressing. They dress and make up because they wish to be seen and admired by someone special to them. If you feel sad, unhappy or jealousy when you see him or her in the company of other opposite sex. It is a sign of strong feeling for him or her. Similarly, when you see a lady or guy you don’t have feeling for, in the company of other opposite sex, you will not be moved, but the moment you see the one you admire in the mist of other opposite sex, a feeling of jealousy will overtake your mind.
Finally if you feel free to discuss your private life with him, it shows the confidence and absolute trust you have in him. You will not go ahead to discuss your personal life with someone you don’t have any feeling or whatsoever for. It is also important to note that someone who is infatuated also reacts like someone in love. You may be excited when the guy or lady you admire is around; think about him or her every now and then, be conscious of your looks, be jealous of him or her when in the company of the opposite sex and feel free to discuss your private life, but may not care so much for him or her that you would want to do anything that would make him or her happy. For instance, if a woman strives to make a man happy and always encourage and support him when he’s down, it shows that she feels something unique for him. This unique feeling is love not infatuation.