Difference Between 'Love' and 'Like'

I'm always amused at how quickly a guy will tell you, "he loves you". Its often followed by a series of "I don't want to hurt you", "I did not mean to hurt you", and " I hope we can still be friends".

Guys, whats going on?  If you like a girl, leave it at that.  Love is a genuine feeling which is losing its impact because you take advantage of it.

That's my opinion, am I wrong?

Well, you're right sha! I've had so many friends that do stuff like that (players)

As for me, though I like girls but I don't like the idea of toying with their feelings.  I'd rather reserve the "I love you" for my wife to be.

Guys, If you don't love a girl then keep it simple and stop professing love.  What goes around comes around!

the thing about love is that it has been over hyped and over flogged that the real meaning is hazy. Infact its hard for me to really differentiate the word love and like.Maybe love is a stronger like, or is love a mirage, a figment of an imagination, an ideal we strive to have?It gets me confused..

When you say you like someone that means you are about to loving the person and it would be with all your heart.

When you say you love one that mean you can share pains and passions with the person and it is forever.

you want to know the difference
do you really want to know
well you asked for it

Difference Between 'Love' and 'Like'

Love - likeness of various expressions
Like - living in kind eagarness

i will break it down
I like you. meaning i tolerate you in kind regard. you are very personable. you are an ok type of person
Love - my tolerance for you in kind regard varies in likeness. one time, i want you, another i want to kill you or hurt you. i find myself in various emotions i can't handle but i can't seem to let you go. it's like i am hook

When a guy says he loves you and want to be friends. he means he can tolerate you as a friend but can't share that deep emotions with you anymore. he holds you in high regard. you notice i didn't say Kind. in high regards. his feelings are intact for you but they just don't hold that kind of various expressions anymore.

now the boundary between liking and loving someone is a reality check for some
it’s hard to talk about this boundary without using example and comparison. They don’t give an exact picture, but they suggest and give you a sense of the reality.
If you say, “I love my dog,” but look at an apartment that doesn’t allow pets, you only liked the dog. Whoever said, “You can fall in love with a rich man as easily as a poor man,” never loved. Whoever thinks love can be measured by a bathroom scale or diminished by age, never loved.

Love is like the answer to a riddle. Other answers may seem good or clever, but only this one answer is perfect.

Love is like the right job. The job inspires you and feels like play. You crave the work, you are passionate about it. It lifts you up and drives you to new levels.

Love is the color which connects with the deepest level of your being. It is the music which speaks to you.

When you love someone, you are totally yourself with them. Nothing can drive a wedge between you. Whatever life throws at you, you deal with together.

When you reach the boundary between like and love, you know you are entering another country. You are beyond newness and infatuation. You know what Shakespeare meant when he called love “an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.”

when he tells you "baby you know i love you" and i don't want to hurt you but can we still be friends". it's over. there is a wedge between us that we can deal together anymore but i like very much that we remain friends because the beautiful thing that we share shoudn't be wasted on enimity

my 2cents

     This is a very sensitive issue. Girls really take the terms like/love very serious which we guys handle with levity. They really differentiate between the two unlike we guys. Well, sincerely speaking girls want to listen to somethings which I think guys will just have to should I say lie to get their way through.
   Again, love is not all about intercourse.
If you don't know this get it know, there are people who like each other and the get involved in intercourse if both define it very well and often times they don't get to end up together. So intercourse is not the defining thing when you are in love.
Ma guy its much more than that.

@ Donpet: I don't seem 2 agree with You. your explanation seem biblical. You can like somebody & id doesn't mean the person is inanimate. Both like & love both exist in the human world, HM!
There re just some people You like & others You love or better still You love very few people & lots of liked individuals. I think thats what obtains 4 most people.

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one goes deaper as comes over time. Like is spontaneous, Love comes with time, patience and hardwork.

difference between like and love, do i really have anything to say? oh maybe,
like is when you're interested in someone and u are always comfortable with him/her around but love is a deep feeling, its not just u for intercourse or what ever u call it, for example u love your mother but u can't have sex with her or marry her, so i disagree with seun.

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love has different meaning to it.

like is simply, i don't hate you.

love doesn't have to be 'i want to sleep with you' it simply means the feeling is more than likeness.

love goes beyond like

when u love someone u will want to see the person every sec

but when u like someone,when u see the person your heart don't beat at all,
when i like someone u just see the person as normal friend

well personally i don't believe in love. i know that it exist but it's not something that i am willing to accept at the time being. My bestfriend tells me love is when u can't help puttin his last name with your first name or her first name with your last name, when u send flowers just because it wednsday, u sneak a kiss because they look like they needed to be kissed, when u pray for them more than u pray for yourself. There are more things that goes along with what i know and what she has told me but i don't feel like typing it. But when you like someone you might have feelings for the person but it wouldnt do anything to u if the person wasnt there.

like is just fancying someone
love is more than that
it involves the heart

i think when nigeriamn boys say i love u, they actually mean i like u, kind of like the word flirt.  nigerians  use it to mean slut, why in reality the word flirt actually means a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men.  she doesnt have sex with them but toys with them.  so the next time a nigerian boys says i love ya tots, he actually means your kind of cute and would like to date ya.