The difference between love and friendship 20 Articles

by Todd Pheifer

Overall, I have a hard time defining love and friendship as completed separate concepts. There is so much overlap that it is too limiting to suggest that there are always distinct differences. Much of their definitions h...read more

by Sheri Price

Love is probably the most complex word in the human vocabulary. Where you come from, what your belief structure is, and how you experienced being nurtured as a child all help us to define what love means to us. Friends...read more

by Bridget N. Watts

The most important thing in life is to love and to have people that love us back. Love can take many forms; the love we have for our parents or for our kids, the love we have for our friends, and the way in which we love o...read more

by Sandra Douglas

I have been in love and I have had friends. I have been in love with my friend, and had friends that I wished I could love, but didn't. I have never failed to sense the difference between love and friendship but putting a ...read more

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by fairychild

Most times, it's easy to see the line distinguishing friendship from love. It's clearly marked in your friendships with old school mates, child-hood friends and life-time friends. But sometimes, in a rare moment and this...read more

by Trisha Orlando

Love & Friendship Trust me when I tell you that there is a huge difference between love and friendship. I know because I figured it all out the hard way. I loved my ex-husband but we did not have a friendship between...read more

by Vicki Phipps

The difference between love and friendship can be confusing even to the most philosophical minds. Sometimes love comes from passion and friendship seems to arrive from experience and time, but true love seems to come from...read more

by Sheila-Ann Bender

"Love is friendship set on fire." This is my favorite definition of love, and I think it nails it right on the head. Hearts burn with romantic love, while friendships really only involve a deep 'liking' of someone. Love...read more

by V. Kumar

Love may mean to me something very different from what it means to you. The same difference of opinion may be shared by us in defining what is friendship. Friendship itself means an understanding and trust that differs...read more

by Sowmya Gali

Love and friendship are two same emotions which have their roots in love. Unless you love someone you cannot become their friend. There is an argument as to which comes first: love or friendship? It is the same as asking t...read more

by Violet Fortune

The difference between love and friendship You can love someone and not be friends with that person, but you can't be a friend - even to yourself- without some amount of love. It would be like trying to run a car withou...read more

by Patricia Gilliam

I believe the main reason it's hard to distinguish differences between love and friendship is that friendship is a form of love. In the English language, the word "love" is used in very broad terms. Even though we all kn...read more

by Ted Sherman

Friendship and love are just words in the English dictionary, and they can have a limitless number of meanings. When Cole Porter wrote, "I Love Paris", did he mean he enjoyed the city or had sensual feelings for a special ...read more

by Cameron Nuckols

Love and friendship. Hmmm, aren't they like the same thing?! No! There are major differences between friendship and love. The first thing that I'm going to talk about is one of the reasons that they are different. Let...read more

by GypsyBell

It is very difficult to say exactly what the difference between love and friendship is, as more often than not we love our friends. Love is a feeling, an emotion that we cannot touch or taste, but it something we can feel...read more

by Sande Waybill

Love and friendship share many aspects in common, therefore discerning the difference between love and friendship can often be difficult. Various aspects may or may not occur in relation to either option, dependent upon th...read more

by Eugene Kuzmenko

The difference between love and friendship is that in a friendship you love them in a brother and sister way, mean while when you're in love there is Passion that makes it love, there is this connection that you have that ...read more

by Thomas Edison Jefferson

Thanks to some languages, perhaps especially the English language, too many people don't realize that there is, in essence, no difference between love and friendship. This is both an essential and historical fact, exposed ...read more

by Mary Bubbins

I had to really stop and think before sitting and writing about the difference between love and friendship. To a degree,I don't feel that there is a difference. I guess it really depends on the type of love that we're disc...read more

by Linda Smith

I have always loved my daughters, but we have not always been friends. Now that they are 30 and 27, respectively, we are great friends. My girls had to endure the heartbreak of divorce more than once when they were chi...read more