How can you diffferentiate love from other feelings like infatuation, crush, etc.????
If you don’t know whether it’s real love, then it probably isn’t. People can come in here and tell you all kinds of ways you’ll “know” when it’s love, but the only thing I can honestly say that told me it was different from the (multitude of) crushes I’d had when I was younger was that I was willing to put him, his feelings and his needs first, whereas in the crushes, it was all about me, me, me. When you are ready to put the other person first, then it’s probably love. And I don’t mean, let him pick the movie/restaurant, putting him first…that’s just a kid way to make him like you. I mean, letting go of a relationship with someone you love because you don’t want to tear their family apart, putting him first. I mean….I would much rather be with my ex than complaining about a broken heart right now, but I know that it’s the right thing for us to be apart because I don’t want him to lose his family over me, and that’s what was about to happen. And if he really loves me, he’d have don