Yes, I am in love!

So you've finally met him. The one who makes your heart pound as he walks towards you. The one whose sweet musky scent you look forward to at the end of a hard day. His soft touches lingers on your skin for days and the way your name rolls off his tongue can leave you weak at the knees.

You've heard it all before. You've read the books and seen the movies. Food is no longer a life necessity and sleep is a thing of the past. There is no mistaking it now - you must be in love.

But wait a minute. In love ... Or infatuated?

Deciding whether you are in love or simply infatuated is the ultimate dilemma. Putting yourself inside the love or infatuation bracket takes a lot of getting to know yourself, your partner, and your relationship.

When you are infatuated with someone, it is usually beyond reason. You are at the state of being emotionally carried away by unreasoning passion. It usually short lived and outside the borders of being committed. It is selfish and beneficial only to oneself.

But love - love is signified by much more than this. Love is about the inability to betray because to hurt the object of your affection is too hard for you even to imagine. It is about the relentless desire to give and give, without taking anything for yourself. Love is not selfish. Love is also about the obsession to protect, to defend that person you love and to remove harm from his path. Love is about the passion to pleasure, to know that his needs exceeds yours even without thinking.

You see, love is more than just a pretty face or the ability to wear the right clothes or to say the right things. It is about endless acts of honor, about praising him not only for the person he is, but for the person he is going to be. It is about submitting yourself fully as a woman to his authority and to respect him undoubtedly.

When you are certain of all these things, stand on the mountain tops and shout out from the depths of your lungs, "Yes, I am in love!"