What is the difference between love, infatuation and lust?

Love is often mistaked for infatuation and/or lust. How to tell whether I love someone or if I am simply attracted to them?
What is the difference between the three and how can I tell it???

Love, lust, and infatuation are quite different but they can sometimes get mixed up.

LOVE- when you really love someone, you'd do anything for them, you can't stop thinking about them, and it's just true. you feel safe with them and always want to be with the person. you would spend the rest of your life with that person, you respect them, and want to share your life with them. in love, you would be happy just having the person's company (this is the "being" of being in love). you probably know what love is.

INFATUATION- infatuation is when you are just obsessing over the person, if you were separated for a while, you'd eventually forget about them. this sometimes gets confused with lust. basically, infatuation is just obsession. you can sometimes get a bit stalker-ish when you are infatuated. you want to know everything about them.

LUST- lust is the complicated one. it's often mistaken for love so be careful. lust is when you really only care about the person for physical things. you would only be happy with the person if you were doing something physical with them, whereas in love, you would be happy just being with the person. lust is when you truly, deep down, only physical things would make you happy.

Love is when you want to share your entire world with a person, respect them, treasure them, support them, encourage them and find them disturbingly beautiful all the time.
Infatuation is when you are almost insanely so, interested in their whereabouts, habits, schedules and preferences in life.. yet they probably don't reciprocate that to you.
Lust is where you want to tear their trousers off with your teeth and have your way with them.
Pick your category...
Oh but PS. There really is no need to distinguish between them if you're merely attracted to a person it's a good thing and instead of questioning it, maybe you should just roll with it.

thats a hard question to answer. Infatuation iswhen you see a m or f and think you would like to spend time together but not forever. Lust is when a guy sees a girl who he thinks is hot and would like to F**k her silly Girls see a guy and feel the same way.
Love is when you meet that certian someone and you know beyond all though that this is the person you want to spend the rest of your life with

i don't believe in love at first sight, i believe in lust at first sight then you become infatuated with them and then you fall in love with them , after all you wouldn't fall in love with some one you didn't lust for or who wasn't on your mind always, if you are telling your self you love this person after say a couple of mths id say to you wait a year then question your feelings again

Love is when you constanly think bout someone and when you would put their welfare above your own. When you want them always around and when you like to chat to them as much as having sex. That's what I think the main difference is.