How do you deal with loving someone but not being in love with them?

I mean if your in a relationship with them..



My friend has been talking to me about several things going on in her life. She has a b/friend that she has been with for a while but she now says she thinks she does love him but is not in love with him! confused or whatHow do you deal with loving someone but not being in love with them?
She maybe angry and feel like that at times while she is mad but if she truly does not love him why hasn't she then left him. I have felt this way about my husband from time to time but the feeling passes it is only when he really pisses me off that I feel like that but I am mature enough to know it is just my anger talking.How do you deal with loving someone but not being in love with them?
Not really - You can love someone and not be in love with them.
She's not in love. Get out. Simple. She's saying that she is not courageous enough to move on by what you are describing above.
I other words, she feels love like a brother or family member, that is natural. But to confuse being in love with him, is just a way for her to look for someone that excites her and brings back the passion in her life, that is what she is looking for. Tell her to tell her b/f that her feelings has changed and no longer wants to spend her life with him.
Happens to alot of couples. You care deeply about one another (love) but that spark is just gone, no more butterflies, or heart palps.

But if still young and only a few years into the relationship tell her to leave. Both of them deserve better. She can love him as a friend. Let him find someone better suited to him.
u can love someone and not be in love with them. its not fair to either party cuz everyone deserves the chemistry of being in love with their partner.
In relationships you can go through fazes where you still love your partner as a person but fall out of love with them in your relationship. Kinda hard to explain. But normally if you work on it you can fall back in love with your partner. That is why it is important to have a strong friendship foundation in your relationship.
to say that one ';thinks'; to love someone is not very clear. Falling in love can happen in a split second - loving someone takes a lot longer and takes patience and understanding.

So if she only thinks she loves him - she does not know the difference yet.

For me, you fall in love, and when you get to know them better a love grows and includes all faults and is unconditional. The butterflies will not always be there, they make place for a much deeper and profound feeling. But if it is butterflies she is looking for, she is in love with being in love and nothing more.

Feelings over time change and so do people. By what you describing, she is neither here nor there. She needs to figure out what she wants.
Your friend is just making conversation, it's incredible what bs people say just because they want to be listened to.
Such circumstances are common, people luv but are not in love, Couples stay together and even flourish a lot depends on their personalities , the thing is just to take each day has they come and too make the best of life you can..