Love is a feeling of strong emotional attachment and passionate and romantic attraction toward a person with whom one desires to form a couple.
However, love has still several meaning with more than one area.
1. Love is a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. Love is a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. Love is sexual passion or desire.
Love is a feeling of passionate, emotional, romantic desire and attraction toward a person which is based on confidence, faith and trust. Therefore, confidence, faith and trust are the essentials whereupon love and relationship survive.
Love in broader sense is an impulsive element of inborn instinct. Infant, children, adolescents, youth, husband, wife, father, mother, grandpas, every body do have this celestial element of love. Therefore, love to each other is divine. It is nearer to God. Without love the world cannot exist.
But love has another dimension. This love exists between male and female, boy and girl. In this love angle, there is physical attraction, attachment and fragrance of sex. This love has link with romance.
Lust, on the other hand, means as intense desire or craving for gratification and excitement. In addition to common use, lust is strictly denoting sexual desire.
In lust, presence of emotion is less prominent where is in love emotion is conspicuous. In true love lust gets second preference.
Answered by
Ramcharan
, an ibibo Master,
at
2:13 PM on January 20, 2009