I answered this in another post…just a sec, I’ll copy and paste:
“I believe love is an action not an emotion. Infatuation is an emotion.
Love is what we do for others to make them feel special. It is the action of love that makes us feel special by other people. It tells us someone found something they like about us and choose us and that makes us feel special. I can love anyone…even people I dislike. For example, my father can drive me up a wall…he can be downright selfish, negative, and miserable. I don’t like him…if he was not my father I probably would have never associated myself with someone like him. But he choose me, he is my father and I am his daughter, so I can love him, I can make him feel special by listening to him and doing the things a daughter can do for her father to make him happy.
When I met my husband I was infatuated…on an emotional high up in the clouds. When that emotion subsided and I came back down to earth then the real love started. After 10 years of marriage he still looks me in the eyes before kissing me goodbye before work because he knows that lets me know it is not just a habit. He wants to make me happy and feel special every day. I do the same back to him.
So, to me love is what you do for other people to make them feel happy…and it is what people to for you to make you feel special.”
From: http://help.com/post/92227-hi-all-tel…