Love vs Adore
You meet a person who is beautiful and charming. You feel attracted to him and think of ways to get in touch with him. You spend time with him that lingers on in your memories. You certainly like the person, but you are still undecided whether you love him or not. Slowly, your emotions get involved and you feel restless when you do not get a chance to see or talk to the person. You have certainly gone past the stage of liking the person. This is when you can say that you adore the person to your friends. Love is stronger than adore as it involves a commitment towards a person. Once you say I Love You to a person, you feel compelled to have feelings of love towards that person alone and this is natural and not forced.
When you have moved forward in a relationship from being casual and started to like a person, he or she becomes more than a mere acquaintance and you long to spend time with him or her. This is the stage of infatuation when you feel magnetically drawn towards the person and desire to be in his or her company all the time. It is like a huge crush on the person. You know you like him, but still undecided whether to get deeply involved or not. You find it hard to live without the person and look forward to getting a chance to spend time with him. The mere mention of the person brings fond memories and you feel good. This is when you are getting signals that you simply adore the person.
There are people who have issues with using the word ‘love,’ especially those who have been hurt in a relationship before. They deliberately try to avoid falling in love and instead use the word adore instead of love. In any case, adore is a step below in the chain of liking a person while love is the ultimate feeling which is the highest level in liking a person. But when you adore a person, you are that much closer to falling in love with him than you think.
Summary
‘I Love You’ are the strongest three words that you speak to a person. This is when you are sure that he means much more than being a friend and that you cannot live without the person or that life is worth living for that person alone. Adore is certainly a level lower than love.
I actually believe that ‘Adore’ is a slightly more deeper meaning than the word ‘Love.’ To love someone is to give yourself fully and completely to that other person…….but to adore that person as well means that not only have you given your heart and soul to that person, but you are also in thrall to him or her. ‘Adore means that your love for this person has almost taken on a divine aspect where you are in thrall to that person. You quite literally ‘worship’ this person. That is my take on ‘Adore’ and ‘Love’ anyway.
My husband tells me he adores me all the time i dont know how to feel about that. I feel that the word love was more meaningful. I am confused now .
I completely agree with what you said about the word adore I feel the same. It’s deeper to me , whatever that person says or does I will always adore you for me adore can also mean unconditional love you already love them but when You adore someone is to love them unconditionally as well.
Thank you for this. I have a very hard time expressing feelings, childhood bullpoo, that I legit, need to get over. But my life mate is an enviable open minded and open hearted beautiful specimen of a soul, perfect in my eyes(and yes, I know he’s not) but sometimes I feel like just telling him I love him doesn’t convey what I am not saying but trying to say, and all I can come up with is “I adore you”. Basically, I know you’re too good for me, but I’m gonna ride this out till you figure out that I am not worthy of your love.