Love or just an infatuation?
Today I watched Episode 20, The Young Fans. It aired on February 25, 1952.
In this episode, a young teenage neighbor named Peggy has a crush on Ricky. She wants to “talk” to Lucy about the situation and informs her that she loves Ricky. Lucy explains that love is different from a crush. Peggy doesn’t care, but she does also like someone else named Arthur.
Lucy tries to teach Arthur how to dance so he and Peggy can go to the school dance together. But Arthur ends up professing his love for Lucy! Now things are a mess!
Lucy and Ricky devise a plan to show the teenagers just how old they are. The plan works, and Peggy and Arthur leave together.
The part that stuck with me from this episode was when Lucy tells Peggy that love is different from infatuation. Peggy responds that it must be love because her crush has lasted two whole weeks!
And it got me thinking—what is love?
Love is something that lasts longer than two weeks. ;)
It’s being there when the glitter of the crush wears off and still liking what you see. It’s an inner knowing that the person in front of you sees the best in you—and that you see the best in them. It’s being willing to put another person’s needs ahead of your own when needed.
Love is so multifaceted and so specific to each relationship.
Infatuations, for me, are more passing. They aren’t on the same scale as love, but I did—and still do—have an infatuation with beaded bags. I love the bright colors and funky designs. Each store has unique bags, and looking for them is like going on a treasure hunt!
But I guess I don’t LOVE the bags.
I can say that I knew I loved my husband when I got so sick early in our relationship that he had to take care of me. I wasn’t the pretty girl he had met. I was the person vomiting profusely over the toilet after eating and drinking things that didn’t agree with me.
When he didn’t just leave and say, “Have a good one,” I knew there was something special there.
So, what in your life is love, and what is infatuation?
How do you know the difference?
