One way to see a difference between love and lust is whether or not there is a commitment. Commitment means in some form or fashion that the two people involved who love each other are committed to each other, growing and learning together. When there is no commitment, it means one or both people are unattached and that does not create love. Lust is when people are unattached. Lust is all about self gratifications. Lust means unattached to the other. What makes love and lust sometimes hard to figure out is that they can be one-sided. This means that one of the two people is in love and the other…

When it comes to love and lust, disappointment can be a factor. However, there is more disappointment I find that comes from lust especially when there is lust one way and love coming from the other way. When I talk about disappointment, I am not talking about outside factors but what is between the two people. Disappointments are a part of life, but should not be a part of a relationship. This means you may at times feel disappointed by something that your partner does, but if there is true love between the two people, then the partner will try to change and grow, which makes the disappointment lessened and…

Joy is a big factor in everyone’s life. People want to have joy, yet sometimes joy can be lacking in our life. True love that is between two people brings joy. The key to this joy is to have true love and to have it go in both directions. Sometimes joy is not there because one of the two people is not in it for love but lust. Lust brings in temporary happiness, but cannot bring joy for lust leaves a person empty. Now what comes to my mind is the difference between happiness and joy. Yes in many ways these are two words that have many similarities but are…

In the world of defining love and lust, trust becomes a huge factor. Because with lust it can be complicated, but with love, it is not. Love and trust go hand in hand. When you truly love someone you have a level of trust in them, which allows you to let go of things you hide to yourself and your true self and reflect out. This is what love does. It allows for two people to completely show their true selves and be vulnerable with each other. As for lust, lust is deceiving and yes one person may have a certain level of trust with another, but when lust is…

How does waiting come into play with love and lust? Well, waiting sometimes means having the patience to wait for someone or the endurance to wait on love. Love waits, lust does not. Lust is all about gratification in the present. Therefore the concept of waiting is lost because they want in the now and are not willing to wait. Lust is never thoughtful or long. It can come and goes as quickly as the wind. Love is strong and does not falter as lust can so easily do. Love is patent and has endurance, which means it waits. It waits for the right life partner, it waits for growth,…

In this love and lust are very much different. While love is giving of yourself, lust takes from the other. When a person has love they want to give all of themselves to the other, to enrich the other person’s life, and to help and be a part of the other’s life. However, lust tends to be more selfish and will take from the other person. Lust is all about what you want and not what the other person needs. Love is all about the other person’s needs and not only your own. This does not mean that your own needs are unmet, but that there is a shared giving…

One of the easiest ways to define the difference between love and lust is that love will build something and lust will destroy. Although lust may not always destroy completely and love can be temporary, this is still a good way to see the difference between the two. Love always builds something between two people that never really goes away. But it does not mean it is a forever thing. Sometimes people we love will come and go in our lives, just think of any friend you had that you really loved, but moved on in life. When I say love builds, it is in a more a relationship kind…

How can a person know if it is love or lust? Well, there are many different ways to know. But one thing that is important to do is to be able to take yourself away from the relationship and see it from a different perspective because often people will see things that are not there or not see what is there and I am just as much a culprit as every other person in this world of this. But if we take ourselves outside to a different stance and look at the relationship with an open heart and eye, we can see the truth of what is and what is…