Is it love or lust ?
It is hard to know if it is love or lust at the beginning of the relationship. Every relationship will have some lust at the beginning, so the sure way to find out if it is the love or lust is to give it some time. Give relationship some time and you will know.
Lust is sexual, fueled by hormones and can be very intense early in the relationship. As far as love, love is emotional and is attached to your soul. Love provokes emotional feelings and past memories. Love can feel good, pleasurable or can be painful also. Take some time and you will know for sure.
If you don't have much time to figure out if it is love or lust, then ask yourself a few questions, for example, how much do you respect your partner? If you have a great respect and great physical attraction, it could be love. If you are in lust, you don't care about the other person much, you don't care about his/her feelings, you just want to get immediate pleasure and not to think about anything.
If it's just lust, you don't respect the other person, you don't care about them and you are not going to cry over them. If you it's love, all your feelings, your hopes and emotions connected with that person. If it's love, you think about the future together, you make plans to see each other often, you want everything the best for that person. You truly, deeply sincerely care about him/or her.
Look at your past relationships, if you don't have anything to compare to, then maybe you never were in love in the first place? Ask yourself questions about how you feel, listen to your heart and you will know.
Some people are affraid to be in love or fall in love, so they will deny everything they feel and concentrate on lust only. Some people were hurt before when they were in love, so they would be affraid to fall in love again. If you were hurt before and the other person didn't appreciate your love and your feelings, just don't become angry and bitter person. It can be painful to get into a relationship again, but give a chance, maybe you will find happiness in the relationship.
Love can be painful, but lust can be hard. The more you love someone, the more lust you could feel toward that person. So, it is possible to be in love and feel lust too. Since the question is "is it love or lust" watch how much you care and respect the other person. If it's lust, it would be easy to tell. But if you are in love, you could have doubts, and uncertainty what you really feel about that person. Give it some time and time will tell. Nobody knows for sure if it's love at the beginning but as time goes by, your feelings could grow and become more certain.
Tall Girl