Being in LOVE or LOVING that person? difference?

You love your brother, but you're IN love with your boyfriend. Being in love with your brother would be illegal. You wouldn't be IN love with your parents, siblings, children or friends.

It's possible to both love and be IN love with your boyfriend though. Love simply means to care a lot about someone. To be IN love with someone is a much deeper and more powerful feeling. You are normally only ever in love with one person, and that person is the closest to you, the most important to you, and the person you want to be with most - essentially it's someone you're in a relationship with.

Also, love can be left behind once you fall out of love with someone. For example, a couple might have been in love when they married, but are no longer feeling the same things for each other, but they still LOVE each other. It's just that the type of love has changed to more of a platonic relationship.

At the beginning of a relationship you're in love with a person. You have butterflies in your stomach, can't stop thinking about them, do foolish things and go crazy about them.... These feelings will subside after a few years and will grow into love. You may not have those butterflies in your stomach as when you first met this person, but when you truly love a person you have a deep feeling of care for that person. It's hard to describe. Generally speaking, love takes time to grow. A person saying "I love you" after just a few months, doesn't know what true love is or just says it because the other person wants to hear it.

Being in love requires more of a romantic attachment, you know how some ppl say "I love you but I'm not in love with you" well thats what they mean, they love you as a person but nothing more, more like a friend, someone to rely on, that sort of thing.

You can love a person say as a friend but not be in love with them.

Its the opposite of what you said in your question. It is more serious if you were in love . You can love your friends,family just about anyone you care for deeply,but to be in love with someone is more serious.

there is a huge difference between being in love with a person and loving a person. loving a person is to care for someone. for example i love my sisters. i would do anything for my sisters but i am not in love with them. being in love with someone is when you think about them all the time, getting butterflies in your stomach when you see them, etc. ultimately, love and being in love with go hand in hand in a relationship. never will you be in love with your siblings because that is sick, but you will be in love with a boyfriend or girlfriend, husband or wife .. do you see the difference?

Being "in love" is an emotional state...sort of like infatuation, hopefully deeper tho....but usually something you cannot control.

"Loving" someone is an act, a choice. When you are "in love" with someone, hopefully you make the conscious decision to "love" them as well...then you'll be on your way to a happy and fulfilled life together.

Personally, I always felt tht to be in love with a person was way mor serious than simply loving them. Loving them is to care deeply but to be in love with them is to be willing to take what is thrown at yu two and the relationship. its more or less being able to give yurself in such a way tht leaves yu vulnerable enough....willing to be hurt by them even tho yu dnt wanna be hurt by them. its going above and beyond on every level. in my current relationship...i love my boyfriend to no end....but im simply not in love with him. and although i kno it hurt him to hear me say tht i kno tht lying would have been much worse. im simply not willing to let him close enough to do serious damage to my heart. lucky me...cuz he is okay with tht and he didnt leave me....its a work in progress.

I would think that loving someone is more long term like an old married couple do ..but being "in love" is more romantic

no,

saying your in love with someone is better.

saying loving that person could mean he loves you as a friend or a person and respects you