Love is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person. It is a decision, a judgement and a promise while infatuation is wild, foolish, blind love, unreasonable love, erratic, and passion centred or based on only feeling, emotional strong desire for a person.
Infatuation is being mistaken for love most times; therefore i have carefully study the differences between them and these are the differences stated below;-
1. Love is selfless, infatuation is selfish and greedy
2. Love controls physical contact, infatuation exploits it
3. Love develops slowly, infatuation develops rapidly
4. Love encourages and contributes towards someone’s progress but infatuation does not due to lies
5. Love does not keep record of wrongs committed by other party but infatuation capitalizes on wrongs committed by others
6. Love relies more on compatibility, infatuation relies more on chemistry and physical appearance
7. Love is associated with understanding, attention and commitment, infatuation is associated with sexual attraction and exploitation
8. Love recognizes realities, infatuation ignores them
9. Love focuses on one person, infatuation focuses on several persons
10. Love is patient, kind and long suffering infatuation is arrogant, impatient and rude
11. Love survives the test of time, infatuation can’t wait
12. Love seeks the best in others but infatuation seeks the wrong things in others
13. Love is built on commitment but infatuation is build on feeling
14. Love gives room for growth and change, infatuation does not but rather expects perfection
15. Love protects, preserve, increase and multiply people but infatuation exposes you to sin, depression, rejection and destruction
16. True love does not intimidate or manipulate people into doing the wrong things but infatuation does
17. True love celebrates your achievement and rejoices in your success but infatuation gets intimidated and frustrated at your success.1st Corin13:1-13.
The primary effects of infatuation are sexual abuse, premarital sex, adultery and rape which are sinful before God. Sin is working contrary to your creator – God.
It is outright rebellion against God’s law. Please ZIP UP and keep off infatuation.
For you to have a lovely relationship that can cumulate into marriage, build your relationship on true love.
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