What is the difference between Love and Commitment in a Relationship?
Are they both the same?
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Love is the initial part and then if its successful then you can commit.
i don't think they are the same.
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I don't think they're the same but rather mutual. I don't think you can be truly committed to someone unless you love them, and you cannot love someone unless you aer committed to them (such as in cases of fiances/bf-gf relationships)....none of this "fell in love at first sight, fought tooth and nail to get married, get divorced a year later" bolly/holly crap.
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They're almost equally important but commitment is just a teeny bit more imp. At least to me, and yeh they're kind of the same thing
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Love is a feeling and bear in mind heart is fickle, will plays no part in it.
Commitment is your integrity and thus controllable by will.
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What is the difference between Love and Commitment in a Relationship?
Are they both the same?
like everyone else said.. both things complement each other. like love gets hard to handle if there's no commitment to it. it can still exist w/o the commitment part... but eventually it'll wear off (might)
and it's just as bad if ure committed, and there's no love... im sure uve heard this a billion times over.. : " love passes time and time passes love"
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Love's an emotion.
Commitment a duty. Although it's not so if you commit because that's what you want.
Love's controlled by the heart. your brain tells you to commit.
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you can love someone without wanting to commit to them. and vice versa.
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Why do people always want to talk about the "C" words?
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Its just girls that love talking about the "C" word :D
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Its just girls that love talking about the "C" word :D
Why is that? Concern for the future? :D
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love is feeling
commintment a duty... well said!!
but, a feeling is killed by thinking, so as soon as u start to commit you fal out of love, and replace it with thinking about live togeter, baby together, etc...
lust and friendship combined can make you believe you're still in love...but no more!
Love exist outside of any sorts of contracts
true marriage is a contract and kills love too..that's why arranged marriage fare better!
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Why are so quick to dismiss Love over Commitment? Is it because our own insecurities?
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Commitment : a pledge or promise; obligation
Love : a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person
so the dictionary certainly thinks they are two different things.......and i would agree...
**but i think what all of us are talking abt is that commitment is also a positive given just like love ....when in actuality commitment can exist in the absence of love per se ...... **
what is necessary to its survival is willpower or even weakness of character whichever is the stronger....
a person can be in a relatinship (technically commited) by the strength of their willpower or purely cause they are too weak to face the consequences of an upheavel.......both case scenarios he is still in the relationship but is he "commited" to it ..?
again we are thinking commitment implies making it work......
Love on the other hand can exist without having to commit to each other ....again thats coloured by a persons' interpretation of "love" as being together .....
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Why are so quick to dismiss Love over Commitment? Is it because our own insecurities?
also because for it being the other way round, there has to first be the existence of love.
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these are two completely different things.
you can love someone without being “committed” to them.
you can be committed to someone without loving them.
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in either situation, you can end up being “committed”. 
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What is 'love'? Is there an agreed up on definition of 'love'?
What is 'commitment'?
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they r definately not the same thing...if they were than we wudnt have so many divorces, fights, etc.
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There is no such thing as "Love".