Yes, songwriter, I think you are right that it may be just a little bit different, the definition of being in love, for everybody -- we can never know for sure if they are in love with us in the way we mean when WE say in love. D'oh! It's a curse and a blessing.
I do make a distinction between what I call infatuation and what I call being "in love" -- it's a little hard to describe, but I could be infatuated with a person without having any real admiration for him or her, any sense that I would want to be like herm in any way. You know, just be sort of obsessed and yummy and desirous and fantasy-esque about them. "In love," for me, includes admiration and a willingness to take on and absorb their qualities -- at least some of them.
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