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Want to spend more time with someone? Have you been feeling the desire to be close to a person in your life?<\/span><\/p>\n Hearing someone laugh makes you want to laugh alongside them? If they cry, you want to hold them close and make them feel better? It looks like you might be in love!<\/span><\/p>\n Love is a feeling with many elements involved.<\/b> Sometimes, love is confused with lust. There is a vast difference between physical love and emotional love.<\/span><\/p>\n The idea of Physical love vs. Emotional love is explored here so you can know whether it is the love you are looking at or lust.<\/span><\/p>\n Physical attraction is when someone arouses you on a level that is basically biological.<\/span><\/p>\n If you are possessed by the desire to touch someone, look at them because it makes you feel good, then this means you are physically attracted to them. It is in human nature to be enticed by what we find attractive. Sex is a biological drive, although it may be related to deeper emotions of care and affection.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n Sex is a primal need for humans.<\/span><\/p>\n If you have a <\/span>physical <\/span><\/a>relationship<\/span><\/a> with a person you are emotionally attached to, it is bound to work its magic.<\/span><\/p>\n You don’t always invest your feelings and emotions when you are physically attracted to someone.<\/b> It can be just a straightforward desire to mate with them because you are physically attracted to them.<\/span><\/p>\n There are many faces of emotional love. If you want to hold someone close to you, take all their fears away, and protect them at any cost, this means you are emotionally attracted to them.<\/span><\/p>\n You want to share every moment of your life with the person you are emotionally attracted to.<\/span><\/p>\n Love, value, care, respect, and trust are the fundamentals around which emotional attraction is built. If an emotional bond is created, caring for one another through thick and thin comes naturally, <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n When you start understanding the other person, when you start relating to them, when you want them for something other than their beauty and good looks, that’s when you are emotionally attracted to them.<\/span><\/p>\n Usually, the expectations are higher when you are emotionally involved with someone compared to when you are just physically attracted. Therefore, it could be that heartache and pain are more likely too.<\/span><\/p>\n There are some clear signs which show whether a person is emotionally invested in you or is just attracted to your looks. Some of them are listed as follows<\/span><\/p>\n If the person you are with is only interested in having sex and doesn’t invest time and effort into the relationship other than that, it is a sure sign that it is just a physical attraction.<\/span><\/p>\n If your partner puts in the effort, and is considerate about your emotions, takes an interest in your life, and helps you through things, then it means he\/she is emotionally attracted to you.<\/span><\/p>\n If your partner is more concerned about what you wear and how you look compared to how you feel, it is a tell-tale sign of physical attraction.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/span>Physical love<\/span><\/h2>\n
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