Love, Lust or just a crush?

What a tricky question it is. I came across a magazine which gave me a clue in defining this. Guess what, Lust is the simplest to identify. It is just purely based on physical attraction. You are actually not fussed by his awful dress sense because all you want to do is just to rip his clothes off. Come to point that you will be constantly questioning what has really gone wrong. Blame nobody, but on the overproduction of the sex hormones, testosterone and oestrogen.

On another side of the coin, crush is more like teeny-booper feeling you get. Well, probably comes from a more physical than emotional place. Almost certainty, it can turn into love or jus fade away. At times, mild crush turns almost obsessive with what is called “intrusive thinking”, a toxic feeling of longing where you practically stalk him on Facebook as if he were the oxygen you need to breathe. Conversely, love is when you’re past the lust and crush stage. You like him still even after he has done something extremely annoying. In fact, you virtually imagine a future with him and you just feel loyal to him. You just can’t help it. In such circumstance, Chemicals involved with his feeling are the oxytocin and vasopressin, whereby, oxytocin is associated with the ability to maintain healthy interpersonal relationship and healthy psychological boundaries with other; and vasopressin, on the other hand, is a hormone which promotes feeling of bonding and connection, which is a possible explanation of why lusty love fades as attachment grows within a couple.