Love and desire -- both hold special places in my soul. They are allied, but they are not the same. Love deals with the totality of another person. It not only wants to physically join but to also psychically join with the other. In philosophical terms -- it honors and respects the other and wants to be the other.
Desire wants the other as well. But usually only some part of the other -- like the beautiful body, or a part of the body, or the smile, or the soft voice, or the gentle heart. Both desire and love signal a movement towards the other -- but neither has any guarantee of successful acceptance by the other. In either case the other can resist, can turn away, can refuse, can ignore, and even can pretend such movement does not exist.
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