What's the difference between loving someone, and being In love with someone?

In my opinion to be in love with someone is also to love someone but blindly, not seeing the other one's flaws.
Loving someone means you do know everything about them and you do know flaws person has but you still love him/her with all your heart.
Also, being in love is usually just in the beginning (of a relationship) while loving someone can last forever.
The other thing is, when you're in love you have a constant need to touch and kiss (...) the other person. It also (usually) makes your heart beat faster and that someone is everything you can think of.
To actually love someone means you don't have such a need of constant touching, you're fine with knowing that he/she loves you back and that he/she will always be there for you - with knowing you HAVE the other one, in some way (not like owing the person, but to have feeling like you belong to someone, and he/she belongs to you).

Loving some one is like having sex with them , and being in love with someone is when you really like the person and you would care for them and treat them good,because you really love them ,your heart is pounding towards them , your in love with that person and you just want to be with them . That's my opinion

Being in love with someone is when you love someone and the other loves you back. It is sort of like infatuation but to a deeper level. Being in love perhaps is being in a romantic relationship.

Loving someone is caring for that person deeply without them loving you back romantically. You can love your family, but it does not mean they love you romantically. You care a great deal about the other person.

Loving someone is the things you do. Being in love with someone is the great times and bad times you share together.

Being in Love is based on dependability, compassion, respect and compromise. If you don't share those important qualities with each other then its just infatuation and not LOVE

When my boyfriend first said he loved another girl, but he was "in love" with me, I didn't understand. But then I thought about it. Being in love with someone means your connected to them in a way no one else is. You feel for them in a way only they understand. You are completely embedded in this person. Something about them makes you tick, makes you see things differently.You see them in a different light that only they can see too. While Loving someone is the feeling of protection and deep caring for that person. Sometimes Humans will get jealous because they don't understand the difference. But it's okay to feel jealous.

Just loving someone means that the feeling is sort of mutal.Like,the way you love your parents or teachers.But Being IN Love with someone is when you actual do things to show that person that you care,certain things& actions.Sorry,if thats confusing:)

Loving someone means.. hm... Have feelings for someone, I guess, and To be in love is to have those feelings and get it from somebody you love back...

To love someone is like the love you have for friends and family, etc. To be 'in love' with someone is more for a guy or girl you are in a relationship with, and someone you are seriously involved with.
That's why some couples do fall 'out of love' with each other, but still have a 'love' for each other, if that makes any sense.

i think you use the term "loving someone" when you're talking about family or close friends and being IN love with someone is more serious like relationships and marriage.

no idea..never dated before!!!

This question is often difficult to answer, and there is a very fine line between the two.

Loving someone usually refers to platonic love [non-romantic], such as with parents, other relatives, friends, etc. When you love someone, you care about them deeply and would do anything for them, but you have no romantic feelings.

When you're IN love with someone, it almost always refers to romantic love [girlfriend/boyfriend, fiance, spouse]. Like I said, it includes romantic feelings, where you want to be with the person forever and feel like you can't live without them.

It's hard to define because you can never really DEFINE what love is, just thats the gist of it. Love=platonic, IN love=romantic.

Hope I could help ;)

when you love someone you have very strong feeling toward them and you would do anything for them and would never want to hurt them, but when you are in love with someone you want to spend every hour of every day with that person and you can truly feel that that is the one and only person you ever wanted. well basically you will just know when you meet this person, your body will tell you this.

In my opinion, and this is the way that i see it, is that in true love there is no dishonsty, you love only for the sake of loving and and you give more than you take. that is how i would define true love. it's when you are prepared to do anything for that other prson without expecting anything in return. that is unconditional love, which is true love in my opinion.

Loving someone is like your family. being in love with someone means a guy or girl. i got this from my mom.

when you love someone that means you care for them their feelings , their well being , you just really would be upset if something would happen to them good or bad , Being In Love means all the above And a WANTING to spend every minute every second with that person who is always on your mind no matter what you do THEIR there on your mind , a need for this person . I am in love with this wonderful man and we met at work , it all started with a stare , the LOOK of love he says , after a week of wanting the need to stare at his eyes and him staring at mine we exchanged numbers we talked every day we both wanting to be at work so we could stare at each other no matter who was looking that stare never left people walking by at work looking at us staring would be like damn get a room . we talked more and more after communicating well with each other we finally had a first date after a month we wanted to take things slow , at the end of the date we kissed a little kiss come to find out he wanted to passionately kiss me and i wanted the same , our second date we went to a restaurant and when he dropped me off OH YEAH that Kiss from being a little kiss went to a kiss i will absolutely NEVER forget a kiss so wonderful it actually got us both light headed he says a passionate kiss that we couldnt stop kissing we kept on and on and then when we got that feeling of OH OH we better stop kissing or else ! we stopped and its been 6 months and we still stare and kiss passionately nonestop our first sexual encounter was like we both were in heaven both feeling of wanting more and more each day he says we crave each other and constantely on each others mind he left that job and found another but we both are now craving each other more now that he is not there we text and call telling each other our TRUE feelings of what we are going throughout the day YES WE ARE BOTH IN LOVE TRULY MADLY DEEPLY

the difference is that loving someone is what people say they feel about someone but being in love With someone is when you always want to be around that person that person makes you happy and you feel a spark and that person is the one you want to be with for the rest of your life, your soulmate. :) :( ;) Lunzzy1!!!!!

lovin someone is like ur mom
in lovin is when you want to date then or marry them thats they i see it

I think loving someone can't only mean to like a guy it could also mean ur family.& being in love with some one is having a strong feeling for some one like really think is ur true love or something like that (LOL)

how think of it as i love all my friends yet being in love is with your boy-friend if that makes sence. cause you can love your family but you arnt in love with them

well if hes mean 2 u then he is a stupid jerk

I believe that loving someone is being interested in things they do, although they dont interest you and wanting to be with them etc.. but i believe that being in love with someone, is when they touch you get electric shivers and your heart races and when yous kiss theres no one else in the world just yous, and your knees go week and your feels like its gonna jump out your mouth you cant get over how magical it is to be with this person, thats love to me anyway, its like fireworks on a stary night looking into their eyes. well thats how i feel when im with my boyfriend:)(L)

being in love with someone is like 'dreaming to go to the Eiffel tower every day and night'.and loving someone is like being on Eiffel tower actually!

its different because when u are in love with someone u dont tell anyone and lovin some one people will know

The difference between loving someone and
being in love with someone is that when you love
someone it means you have caring feelings for
them. When you're in love with someone, it means
you still have caring feelings, but you also have
feelings as if you're warm inside and you feel
fluttery.

Well there is two different kind of loves.
One is...
-Romantic Love: It is emotional, sexual, and spiritual recognition. It is irrational and like an emotional storm.
Another is...
-Loving someone: It is tender, quiet. It is like a light that allows people to see things that are not seen by others.
Hope that helped! :)

Being in love with someone usually requires both participants to feel that way about each other. Hence, "being in". Loving someone can be one-sided or two.

Loving someone is passion. Being in love with someone is loving u 4 who u r. Love also is the respect 4 one another, and that's something we always 4get. We always mistake love 4 passion and that's sad cuz it always ends up with a bleeding heart. Being in love with someone is somebody who will love and respect u! Or...maybe it's the other way around, not sure.

In my opinion you say you "love someone" you thinks about one of your friens/family, but if you say"I'm in love with..." it's more than a simple fiendship.

when you love someone you're together and being in love with someone means that you love something about that person

Loving sum one is just wen u like him/her but in love is wen u both deeply love echother

loving someone means that u love someone abt whom u knw everything it means u fell in luv with him after knowing him better and being in luv with someone means u love someone abt whom u knw nothing it means u fell in love with him without knwing anthing abt him

Loving someone is u care and will always be there for there for them. When u r in love with someone u try to be with them and try to tell them.

u can say that u love anybody but when u say your in love with somebody that means that u love that person for who he is. i think . i dont know dont ask me

bein in love means u cant live another day without them u wuld tak ur last breathe to spend time with the person ur in luv with loving somone iz wen u tak ur tim n pleas ur lovers body makin them feel lik they wuld go all out ther ways 2 feel that pleasure again

I'm not all an expert but I'll try and explain best I can. I think loving someone is like loving your parents and friends, you care about them and are protective of them. But being inlove is knowing that, that special person means the world too you. You care about thme in a special way seeing them in a different light. Loving them completely to the fault. I mean you love your parents and yeah they get on your nerves so some people think you don't care that much and it's true some people care less but being truely inlove with someone is knowing that even though you fight or argue that afterwards he or she will still be there for you and you wouldn't care less about him and her over some stupid arguement.

Hope that helped

You have asked a very hard question to answer. However thinking about it from my own point of view. I have someone I love but it began as a crush which got out of hand I know it will not last for ever and for lots of reasons can go no further than it has already so I am not in love but I do love him. I know this because I can go days without seeing or hearing from him and although its hard I don't miss him where as if I was in love I would want and need to see him every day.

The difference between love and being in love.

You can love anything, such as a person or maybe a pet. You care for it, it has a meaning to you. It's just a tender affection for somebody, a feeling of kindness or strong liking.

But when you are truly in love every single part of your body thrives for that one person. Every heart beat, every movement, thought, feeling, is revolved around one person that you are so passionate for that you look past the present and into the future. You're so blinded with love that you cant see a single flaw, this person becomes a superhero in your eyes. When you're in love you can't be without that person without desiring their warmth and touch. And you would truly do anything for them, because you are so in love with this person they have more meaning to you then you do to yourself. It's so intense and passionate you almost seem in a different world with them as if nothing else has or ever will have any meaning to you. Its finding the balance between desire and needs. You cant focus without beginning to think of  them. It's when your soul is truly yearning this other, as if they were part of you. You're so infatuated with this person, that your life revolves around them. Its the needing for their soul to be intertwined with yours. You're completely head over heels, and a complete idiot

'LOVE' CAN BE BROAD-INCLUDING MANY.

You can love YOURSELF (& you are hopefully not IN-LOVE with yourself), you can love someone as a human-being, as a person, or as the particular person they are: like your bestfriend, or anyone, even an enemy or random person, your dog, a cat, or a "thing":{i.e. I love my car!}. There is different depths AND "types" of love. You can love a place, love reading, love a god or God, and you can even have love in a marriage, etc. without being "inlove" (love your mom or dad or fam member but you are not "inlove" with them, or I hope) :0

THERE IS ONLY ONE 'IN-LOVE'.
It is NOT broad & it is not just whenever we say or feel like it, either.

IN-love is MUTUAL romantic "real"-love (NOT infatuation or puppy love or just THINKING you are in-love, EITHER!). You definately love the someone you are "in-love" with & vice-versa, but you can Love someone and NOT be in-love or if they do not "romantically" love you back & return that love, then it isn't really "In-Love" it is Infatuation or a Crush. In-Love is the romantic sense must take two people in a mutual agreement of that. It envelopes your being in an indescribable way, that I think is actually confused a lot & really only happens with a soulmate or someone VERY close to that as a true love/life mate.

loving some one is caring about them, like with family and friends. being love with someone is not being able to get them out of your head, wanting to do anything to make them happy, and knowing they have flaws but that that is what makes them so amazing. oh yea and you probally won't be able to say anything bad about them, or find anything wrong with them.

To love someone is closer to nothing than something. Come to think of it as i do. One can love anything realy ( love your mom, your dad, your brother, your sister, your cat, your dog, some kind of flower, you favourite food ect. ) but to be in love with someone ( to do anything for the person even to die for that person ) my personal opinion

In my openian Love is blind. so when someone being with love that person only seen his lovers filling and always trying to give happiness and much more love to his lover.when u being with love u not understand what is tje value of your partner and you heart him many times.
you dont understand what is lonelyness.
what fill when u alone.what fill about waiting for some one.
And other hand when the person loving someone.
when you loving someone you always try to share your filling with the person you love.and when this person comes to you for something your mouth are sealed and you become silence.
and you always reply with short.ex. yes/no.
and always try too told him your felling anf your love but the self confidence geting low evety time.
you always know what is the value of your loving person in your life.
and what is loneliness.
and what is feel in your heart.
the true love is in loving someone by oneside.and told him.
the loving someone is most dangerous and most hearting.
Love and Loving its look like same but
its most different part of love life.
in love you will get confromice.
but in loving you get only depressions.
so lovers dont get your heart and alone.
and loving person dont Give Up you become successful.
Iam Also Loving Someone.

There is a definite difference between loving someone and being "in love" with someone. I love my sister, I love my mom, I loved my dad (when he was alive) and I love friends and I love animals and my pets. To be in love with someone is a feeling that runs deeper than that of a normal caring about a person. I love my sister deeply, for example, but I'm not "in love" with her. I love my ex-husband (I was young when I got married for reasons too much to write here) and as sad as it sounds, I was never in love with him. I am in love with my fiancé, however.
I never pictured the future with my ex-husband and I was married to him for 9 years! There are a lot of people in relationships that are not in love with the other. They care about them and they love them and value them highly, but they aren't in love with them. That's why these relationships will not last. They get used to another person and stick around even though they know there is more left to be desired. This isn't the fault of anyone, it's an unexplainable feeling, but that's why divorce is so rampant and broken families abound. I never pictured having children with my ex, but I did love and care about him a lot.
I picture my whole life with my fiancé. I want children with him and to be with him wherever that may be. I see my whole life in his eyes and I feel complete with him. I don't feel like I should be anywhere else except with him and I don't feel anxious like I should be doing something else in my life. It's a feeling that as long as I am with him, anything is fine.
My ex and I had (for me at least and I'm pretty sure for him as well) a platonic relationship and we never should have been married. My fiancé and I have beyond what is a caring or platonic love for each other and distance and many trials have proven that this feeling does not go away. We desire each other and to be with each other and are on a different level than anyone we've ever known in our lives. It's not all that common to find someone we are totally in love with and most will marry and have children with someone they love deeply, although not in love.
It's hard to explain, but it's just a feeling that no matter where life takes you, no matter what your career, no matter what happens, as long as the other person is next to you, you feel complete and suffer a type of separation anxiety if they were to be away from you.

Being in love is an obsession, a need for them to fill our desires.

Loving someone is passion, a want to make all their dreams reality

"Being" in love comes from your heart - unconditioned, from pure being and joy .. without thinking and interpreting.

Loving some "one" comes from your mind, conditioned about something what that person is, what character or quality it has, you love the person, not the being. So when the person change, you may complain and stop loving that person.

So please be always love. It's your true being <3

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Well for me, loving someone is when you express or show your affection to someone you love without any response in return. Love is unconditional. So if you love someone, you don't care if they don't love you back. You just love them for who they are.

Being in love with someone, oh, haha, i guess this is where you get to be crushing on someone you really, really like. It's different from loving someone because you're in love with that person yet you wanted the person to love you back. It's like you want to feel his passion for you too.

well i live with someone for 14 years, wich i am still in love! this week he told me that that he love me, but not in love with me any more... I have to say that we were abset, so we were having a meeting....
I fellt like if is the end of the word, i cry cry forever, i just totaly lost the control, that really really hurt me dip, very dip. I think is the worst think someone ever said to me, i canot tell you, how much i being soffering after that, i just canot get over it! still on my head, I am not in love with you any more..... than he also said, I love you and care for you couse we live together for so long.... I felt such a big pain in my hart, like i could not breath....
that day we agree to separate, it was horrible.
I still have feelings for this man, i still fancy him, after all this years, he works a way, and everytime he comes home, i still fancy him like mad.
But for a long time that thinkgs not being the same, like when he is back from work he his allways tierd and second day, he still not interested in have sexo, this being like this for a long time.
I thougt that is becase he now allways travel a lot, but second day, and third.... for god sake!!
I abset him, because i talk about things that we could do, wich is stupid he fell this way....
he is a quite guy.... works hard have lots of male friends, he is good looking, well a big balley, but charming!!
so any way, for me the way i see it, love is like love your sister, friends, mother, father, etc
but in love is from a woman and man, that fancy each other, want to kiss and hug that person, feel that he have to say, I love you after make love, is that feeling that you can see and look at other people but in the end of the day, you would not fancy them or betray.
For me it feell like is the end of the world. I lost the balance of live.... i am so said, and lost.
5 days after this, he told me that don't know what love is any more.... I had to find out if i can live like this.
I know dip down the write think is just live this man that hurt my hart so dip. I wish one day, he learns how much it hurt on me...
I had found out one think that being living like this make me reallize that i miss have someone that really fancy me, kiss and miss me and all that thinks that mean so much, i did not have that from him for a long time. So lost I am.

"In love" means romantic interest. And when we love someone, it could be anyone. Like, I love my friend very much. But that doesnt mean I am in love with her. But I love her soooo very much!

How I started to love a girl was i meet her as she signed me up for gym, she leand in towards me and smiled, From what ive read thats flirting. For the past 2 weeks we would make eye contact and sometimes gaze at each other for more than 5seconds and she would come in to where i was working out and fix up the equipment wink wink. Sorry for my bad english and grammar. Then i stopped going to gym after about 6months i came back, "there was a reason i didnt go family related not important" she was still trying to flirt with me. But i didnt catch her as often doing it and yesterday the first words i actually said to her in that amount of time was bye on my way out. That night i had a dream about her, me and my dad and sister going go gym working out and my dad setup this little game as i climb the stairs i would be given piece by piece of paper with letters and number, it turned out to be her name where we was going to date and her number. Very odd then i wokeup, i had this wierd feeling in my stomach and my heart felt full I just started to fall inlove with her by only saying bye that night. Idk how to explain it i just know im falling inlove because when i just loved her i would do anything for her, but now its like my heart wants to speak for it self and no one is more important then she will ever be to me. Thats the difference in loving someone and inlove with someone now i just wake up thinking of her without even actually knowing her other then her name. Soon i will lose control and my heart will just talking to her it self, for now i think im best to just let it play out. For those who know of soulmate i knew she was mine from the first day i knew her just because i felt like i had seen her before even though i really hadnt and a lot may be like thats no proof, well it happens differently for everybody and thats how it happened for me im just too afraid to ask her and idk why i dont fear rejection i just want to talk to her 1v1 in private. Soon i wont be able to control my self anymore and my heart will take over prehaps thats a good thing other then i dont think when i talk i just say how i feel. Well theres more to the story and its a lot more romantic then just this but id rather keep it to my self. <3

When you love someone, it is when you have known them for a long enough time that you can trust them and know that they will be there for you. For example, you love your mom, you love your pets, you love your bffs. These are all things that you have close relationships with, and can trust. Another form of loving can be with an accessory such as a necklace or a blouse, but that is simple and not very powerful.
Being in love is a whole different story. Being in love with someone means that you are attracted to this person, it means that while you are doing homework, sleeping or even showering, you cant stop thinking of this person. Being in love means that you feel those butterflies when you are around him/her, it means that you are longing for them all the time. Being in love isn't something you can control because it is a powerful force that brings the two of you together. When you're in love you can feel them in the wind on a cool night, you can see them when you close your eyes, and you think of them when you listen to your favorite song. If you're in love, you'll go to the moon and back and overcome any obstacles that come your way to be with them. You'll wait longer than forever if it means that you can be with them. And when you touch, you'll feel as if you can fly.
To anyone reading this, if you are lucky enough to experience any of these feelings you are very lucky. Don't let the person who these feeling are towards go. Cherish them, help them, pick the up when they're upset, show them that you will go the moon and back to be with them, and tell them that you'll wait longer than forever for them and most of all enjoy this feeling of being IN LOVE! If you let it go it will be something you regret for a long time.

When you or I or whoever say *I love you* they love you for you and everything about you and that the way YOU make them feel like nobody else. Now when your in love its a closed circle btwn you and the another person. You both make each other feel loved and love each. Both are on the same level of loving each other . So to be in love is to be in a closed circle with someone who feels same way bout you to love someone else is to love them for them and how they make you feel toward them