PlutonianEmpire
King of the Plutonian Empire
What is love? What is infatuation?
To tell you the truth: I don't really know. No one does. But this is my interpretation of it.
Love is reciprocal. I love you, you love me. Infatuation can also be reciprocal: I can't live without you, you can't live without me.
Love is when you both know you like each other, and that you two are attracted to each other, in every way, shape, and form, on the physical level, AND the spiritual level. You also love, on occasion, the smallest thing about the other person.
Love also includes respect. Respect for the other's belief systems. Respect for the path they have chosen in life, but if he/she chose to be the next Adolf Hitler, that's a whole other story (not very many people would want to go out with a mass-murderer). You also don't try to change their ways.
In a family, when all loves one another, they all care for each other, they all help the other when he/she is in need, etc.
Infatuation? Sex, sex, SEX!![[pimp]](/images/smilies/pimp.gif "Pimp [pimp]")
Physical pleasure with little or no strings attached. But not always, for to some couples, it can all be just some game of sorts, where they sort of "act it out" with no real meaning. Think of "Romeo and Juliet." Their families hated each other, but Romeo and Juliet went out with each other behind the families back. Sounds like love, right? Maybe, but not if they commit suicide simply because they don't want to live without the significant other.
"Crushes" can be a form of infatuation. groucho So does "falling" in love. If you let yourself fall in love, don't forget to bring a flashlight, 'cause it's gonna be a long way down...
On occasion, infatuation can lead to more than just suicide. It can lead to the deaths of children. Yes, children. Including the unborn. How would it include the unborn. Let's say that there's a man and a very pregnant wife, but the wife and the child have a good chance of dying if something's not done. The wife is on the hospital bed, unconsious, dying, along with the about-to-be-born child. The man is unwilling to let the wife go, and chooses her over the child. Wife gives birth, but the child dies. Clearly this is a form of infatuation. Why? One unnamed CFC'er told me that if this situation happened, he would immediately choose the wife over the possibility of a child growing up to have its own spouse and kids, education, job, etc., because he would "miss her too damn much." If you miss the other person more than anything, and I mean ANYTHING, in the universe, and would go as far as to neglect your children, family, friends, that's infatuation. Lethal infatuation.
So that is my interpretation of Love and Infatuation.
What about me?
I'm single, so I don't have to worry about this. Plus, I'm 19 with braces, hearing loss, and a desire to be the leader of the entire Universe, so it's not like I'll meet "Queen Right" anytime soon. 
To tell you the truth: I don't really know. No one does. But this is my interpretation of it.
Love is reciprocal. I love you, you love me. Infatuation can also be reciprocal: I can't live without you, you can't live without me.
Love is when you both know you like each other, and that you two are attracted to each other, in every way, shape, and form, on the physical level, AND the spiritual level. You also love, on occasion, the smallest thing about the other person.
Love also includes respect. Respect for the other's belief systems. Respect for the path they have chosen in life, but if he/she chose to be the next Adolf Hitler, that's a whole other story (not very many people would want to go out with a mass-murderer). You also don't try to change their ways.
In a family, when all loves one another, they all care for each other, they all help the other when he/she is in need, etc.
Infatuation? Sex, sex, SEX!
Physical pleasure with little or no strings attached. But not always, for to some couples, it can all be just some game of sorts, where they sort of "act it out" with no real meaning. Think of "Romeo and Juliet." Their families hated each other, but Romeo and Juliet went out with each other behind the families back. Sounds like love, right? Maybe, but not if they commit suicide simply because they don't want to live without the significant other."Crushes" can be a form of infatuation. groucho So does "falling" in love. If you let yourself fall in love, don't forget to bring a flashlight, 'cause it's gonna be a long way down...
On occasion, infatuation can lead to more than just suicide. It can lead to the deaths of children. Yes, children. Including the unborn. How would it include the unborn. Let's say that there's a man and a very pregnant wife, but the wife and the child have a good chance of dying if something's not done. The wife is on the hospital bed, unconsious, dying, along with the about-to-be-born child. The man is unwilling to let the wife go, and chooses her over the child. Wife gives birth, but the child dies. Clearly this is a form of infatuation. Why? One unnamed CFC'er told me that if this situation happened, he would immediately choose the wife over the possibility of a child growing up to have its own spouse and kids, education, job, etc., because he would "miss her too damn much." If you miss the other person more than anything, and I mean ANYTHING, in the universe, and would go as far as to neglect your children, family, friends, that's infatuation. Lethal infatuation.
So that is my interpretation of Love and Infatuation.
What about me?
I'm single, so I don't have to worry about this. Plus, I'm 19 with braces, hearing loss, and a desire to be the leader of the entire Universe, so it's not like I'll meet "Queen Right" anytime soon. 
