Like and love are two very different feelings but most of the time a lot of people tend to mix up these feelings and end up getting hurt because what they thought the other person felt for them was love, was just infatuation. Getting to know the difference between these two feelings may save you from getting hurt or give you a shot to be in a good relationship with your soon to be partner. Though there are people who would just go all the way not caring whether they would get hurt or not, they would just want to gamble with fate and see if any random encounters would end up to be their long time partner.
The most common misinterpretation of love and infatuation is usually on the getting-to-know-each-other phase between two people. One may think that the other person is into him/her and would take chances by leaving signs that may or may not be interpreted in the same way. People are usually confused on whether someone is trying to be nice and someone is already flirting, with this misunderstanding, it would soon lead to one person walking straight into getting hurt in the long run. It’s like making a person walk around in a room blindfolded with some soothing music playing in the background without him/her knowing that the room is filled with knives and other harmful objects, even though you are sure that you’re safe in that room, sooner or later you would start stepping on some knives and bumping into those harmful objects. In other words, even if you think you you’re on the right track, with all the signs around you, there is still a chance that you have read those signs in a wrong way and you are bound to get hurt because of that misinterpretation.
Love on the other hand, may be the most obvious feeling one can recognize but there are still some people who are very hesitant in expressing these feelings. Then comes the “how do I really feel about this person” phase, this is usually experienced by people who are very fragile when it comes to a relationship. These people are afraid to take risks with the fear of getting badly hurt in the end. They look for opportunities that would surely grant an easy way into a relationship, this method may be the easiest, but in the long run this would lead to the most hurt that anyone could receive. Love and infatuation are feelings that can both be expressed. It all depends on the degree of expression that leads the receiving end in the most confusing role. One should be careful in expressing their feelings for another person, they really wouldn’t know whether it’s love or infatuation once they realize this relationship may or may not be the relationship they have been searching for in the first place, as a result, both individuals tend to hurt each other without their knowledge due to lack of familiarity with their partners.