Distinction between love and attraction

It can be difficult to distinguish between love and attraction. Attraction can be described as a physical and emotional reaction to someone we’re sexually attracted to, whereas love involves a deeper level of emotional connection, trust and mutual support.

When you’re attracted to someone, you may feel a strong sexual drive or physical attraction, but this doesn’t necessarily guarantee a lasting relationship. On the other hand, love is built over time through shared experiences, challenges overcome together and deep mutual understanding.

It’s important to take the time to get to know the person before deciding whether your feelings are based on attraction or love. Relationships based solely on physical attraction can fall apart quickly when that attraction diminishes or when problems arise. On the other hand, relationships based on love and emotional connection can be more durable and resistant to difficulties.

The key to discerning love and attraction is to consider all aspects of your relationship, including emotional compatibility, commitment and communication. If you have any doubts about your feelings, it’s important to take the time to think about what you’re really looking for in a relationship, and to discuss your feelings and expectations openly with your partner.

You feel a strong attraction for the woman you’re seeing, but you’re wondering if it’s just budding love. It’s important to distinguish between the two to better understand your feelings.

Attraction is often linked to desire and longing, which have to do with the body. It’s an intense sensation that can be very pleasurable, but it’s often temporary and can disappear as quickly as it appeared. It can be physical or emotional, but not necessarily profound.

Love, on the other hand, is a deeper, more lasting feeling that involves more complex emotions. It’s often based on acceptance of the other person as a whole, with all their qualities and faults, and can survive difficulties and trials. Love is therefore less superficial than attraction.

So it’s important to take the time to analyze your feelings, to find out whether it’s a simple attraction or a deeper love. Take into account the duration of your feelings, the quality of your relationship, the depth of your exchanges and your acceptance of the other person as a whole.

Attraction can be distinguished from love under slightly similar conditions. Attraction is physical, finding its own satisfaction in gratification. You desire this woman wildly and by sleeping with her, you achieve the goal of this attraction. Satisfaction is material, even possessive. Possessing this woman’s body and desire, even for a few hours, satisfies your attraction. There’s an egocentric dimension to attraction and desire, but not in the negative sense usually associated with it. Egocentric in its etymological sense. That is to say, satisfaction has its end in yourself.

As for love, although it has thousands of different facets, and immeasurable conditions of development, it could vulgarly be distinguished by its emphatic dimension and its goal external to itself and therefore to itself. In love, there’s a desire to make the other person happy, for his or her own sake, not for the sake of oneself. The goal is therefore external to the feeling itself. The feeling enables you to take action to satisfy the other person.

Moreover, the desire associated with love would encompass more than just the desire linked to attraction.

In the desire for love, there’s the urge to embrace a person’s entire universe, be it corporeal of course; there’s a physical desire, but also a spiritual one. You could say that you’re making love with your whole “world”. It’s this world of theirs that enchants us and makes us want to penetrate it. So there’s a strong desire for life and a way of living.

In the simple desire for attraction, the impulse is really based on the carnal dimension of the person. And the desire to satisfy this desire is linked to oneself. The other person allows us to satisfy a desire that lies within us and is projected onto that person. Attraction would therefore be linked to ourselves in relation to this person, whereas love would be linked to the person for himself or herself.

Love and attraction can therefore intersect, mix and mingle, but it seems that love takes more account of the person we’re in front of, to satisfy them and make them fully happy, whereas attraction seeks rather our own satisfaction, through the experience of the person opposite.