8 Key Differences Between Lust and Love

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There’s nothing wrong with wanting to look your best for someone. But you have to admit that looking great takes a lot of time. The goal is usually to entice the one you admire the most. Many people try to grab attention for the sake of flirting;

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Love lets you dress to impress, or not

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Lust and passion make us overlook flaws. We don’t care that he or she has an annoying voice, or that they don’t have a sense of humor, because there’s a physical attraction.

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Lust is all about physical attraction

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Lust persuades you to say what the other person wants to hear

People who are in lust want to please. They want to make themselves noticed at all costs, and even make the other person believe that they’re perfect. Sadly, you can’t fake it forever and sooner or later your true self will come out on the surface.

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Lust shows you perfection; love makes you look beyond the superficial

Lust is deceiving. It makes us believe we’ve come across a Greek God or Goddess with no flaws. However, when we’re in love, we learn to look beyond the superficial. We don’t necessarily fall in love with the physical

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Lust doesn’t allow you to see what hides underneath a beautiful body

Lust is synonymous with physical attraction. We love what we see and what we feel on an intimate level, and we don’t care so much about that person’s inner thoughts, perceptions, or life goals.

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You can’t share your personal issues with someone you’re in lust with. And that’s because you don’t want to showcase your vulnerabilities, and you don’t want them to change the way they see you

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Personal issues are out of the question when you’re in lust

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Lust is all about sex. It’s not about the conversation, and that may lead to awkward moments of silence. Love, on the other hand, makes you see beyond the sex. It makes you want to know everything there is to know about the other person.

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Lust triggers an awkward silence you can’t avoid

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Lust makes people live in the moment, enjoy the physical attraction and that’s about it. When you’re in love you want to do more. You begin imagining things — what it would be like to share a life together,

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Love stirs your imagination and makes people imagine a future

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