Identifying Love While Dating

It’s easy for intense emotions to develop during dating and for all of those emotions to be thought of as love. But where there is obsession and affection that feels stifling, then it may be lust that is on display and not love.

Compared with lust, love is also about having a strong liking for someone and displaying passionate affection for the person. But love involves being considerate, thoughtful, reasonable and understanding. That means love involves positive emotion and makes the individual feel good about him or herself, and also about the person who is displaying the affection.
Love has entered your dating relationship if you are able to confide in and trust your date. It means that you feel comfortable and secure around your date and you want that person to share more of your world. In dating therefore, love is evident not only by warm fuzzy feelings, but also by the extent to which you can relax, be open and be yourself in the presence of your date.

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