The key difference between love and care is that love can only be felt towards a special person in your life while caring can be felt by anyone even towards those whom you do not personally know.
Although most of us confuse the words love and care, there is a clear difference between these two words. You have to know how to differentiate both to be able to love and care at the same time. People who do not know the difference between love and care will face many difficulties in the future especially when they are looking for special someone to love. If you have this kind of problem, then this article will help you differentiate the feeling of caring and loving someone.
CONTENTS
1. Overview and Key Difference
2. What is Love
3. What is Care
4. Side by Side Comparison – Love vs Care in Tabular Form
5. Summary
What is Love?
Being in love is a profound feeling for someone. This is a feeling that you cannot forget. If you love someone, you want to be with them and you want to be an important part of their lives. If you love someone especially of the opposite sex, you will feel a different emotion towards them.
Sometimes the feeling is very intense that you cannot control. Love is usually involuntary. It is not something that an individual force, but something that happens naturally. However it is important to remember that loving someone also denotes that you care for them, but if you care for someone it does not mean that you love them.
What is Care?
Care can be understood as concern, interest or even a liking that is displayed towards someone. Caring for someone is more of a friendly behavior. You can care for someone even if this person is not closely related to you. For example, you see an old woman crossing the street, and you helped her, you can say that you care for this older woman. Caring is what you feel for your parents, sibling, and friends. Loving means that you cannot live without that person in your life, while caring is about friendship and camaraderie. Also unlike loving which is a long-term commitment, caring is just for a short term just like the example given earlier about the old women who want to cross that street. If you will marry someone, it means that you love her or him back because marriage is a long-term commitment. If you choose help, someone, because you know that this is the right thing to do it is caring.
Love and care are different, but they are very much related to one another. If you do not care for anyone, then you are not capable of loving also. Actually, it is not that hard to differentiate love from care because when you feel the love you will know that it is love. If you care for someone, you will surely know that you are only feeling superficial about them and nothing too personal. You do not have to worry about love and care because these two feelings will help you find true love and true friendship at the same time.
What is the Difference Between Love and Care?
Love is a strong feeling of attraction felt towards someone special in your life. Care is a concern or even an interest you feel towards anyone you prefer in your life. Moreover, love is often associated with an intense feeling felt towards someone in the opposite sex (might be of the same sex as well), while care, on the other hand, is mostly associated with friendship and concern.
Comparatively, love is more long-term commitment while care is a more short-term commitment. Furthermore, love is an involuntary action while care is not an involuntary action. Based on the nature of the relationship, love has a personal relationship attribute since it is felt mostly to one specific person whereas, in care, a personal relationship is not necessary since you can care about someone with whom you do not have a personal relationship.
Summary – Love vs Care
Love and caring are very much interconnected. Therefore, many people tend to misinterpret these two emotions. The difference between love and care is that love can only be felt towards a special person in your life while caring can be felt by anyone even towards those whom you do not personally know.
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1. LOVE-love-36983825-1680-1050 By Usbkabel (Own work) (CC BY-SA 4.0) via Commons Wikimedia
2. US Navy 080808-N-3271W-037 Lt. Cmdr. Mark Lambert, flight surgeon for the Navy flight demonstration squadron Blue Angels, visits with a resident of the nursing home care center at Spokane Veterans Administration Hospital By U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Gary Ward (Public domain) via Commons Wikimedia