difference with pure love and being in love?

I keep reminding myself, that love is patient, love is kind, love does not brood over injuries but rejoices in the truth...to me this is pure love, when you find a way to forgive and it is truly forgiven...being in love I see as love and lust combined. You can have both...but I am finding that the pure love endures yet, being in love waxes and wanes even with the person you choose to live your life with. :)

Pure love is selfless and unconditional, like the love of a mother for her child. Being in love has more to do with desire and is almost entirely conditional and selfish.

Pure love is unconditional love. And yes, you can be in love without sexual desire. Sex is not what love is about, that is just the fringe benefits. The more you truly love someone the sex is heavenly!!

i saw a purple balloon

capture a girl one day.

he would not let her go,

for heaven he strove to take her,

but she was too heavy.

so, he stayed earthbound,

to prove his love, until,

a hundred years later that night

he died with a bang.

the little girl cried

for never again

would she find such a pure love.

-spike milligan (rip)

i think there are different kinds of love, sexual desire isn't necessary in most of them, and can often taint pure love.

Pure love is for your family, where whatever they do you still love them. In love is for a partner and totally diffrent from pure love

in lvoe is much stronger. it is like fully in love, and pure love is when you have no hatred for the person. usually you get married when your in love, and not when you have pure love.