Women don't just talk to hear their own voices. Most times they're trying to get a point across to you. Listen...I mean really listen to what they're telling you. Granted, sometimes it may seem as if she doesn't have anything of real importance to say, and in your opinion, she's just babbling on about nothing. But you'd better listen anyway.

If your mind is wandering or you interrupt her with a comment about something totally unrelated to what she's talking about, she'll feel you simply don't care about her and this can lead to hurt feelings and resentment on her part. Over time, this can seriously damage relationship or cause its demise. You should never dismiss what a woman has to say as trivial or ignore her. Don't just hear words -- absorb them like a sponge.

Sometimes a woman may feel need to vent her feelings if she's upset or frustrated about something in her life. It may or may not have anything to do with you personally, but you are her sounding board. She'll likely ask you later what you think, so you better be paying attention so your answer makes sense and relates to subject at hand. If you've been tuning her out, your inattention will likely anger her, cause hurt feelings and resentment, and make her feel unimportant to you.

Perhaps you're wildly attracted to someone and thoughts of that person dominate your mind a good portion of day and night. Perhaps you can't wait until next time two of you will be together again. When you are together you can't keep your hands off one another and when you're apart, you fantasize about next time you can see one another. True love and lust are easily confused because they are so much alike.

As a rule of thumb, if you share few other interests and have nothing in common other than an overwhelming physical desire for one another...it may be lust. If you have nothing of real value to say to one another and have difficulty relating to one another outside sexual arena...it may be lust. If you don't particularly enjoy one another's company unless you're having sex...it may be lust.

On other hand, if your relationship is based on factors other than physical attraction and sex is not necessarily number one priority...it may be love. Most long-term relationships are built on a strong friendship which turns into love over time. Having sex is not driving force behind relationship, but is a nice sideline to it.

There really is such a thing as "love at first sight". It happens to many people and relationship may last for rest of their lives. A budding relationship based on lust feels much same as one which is truly "love at first sight". So how do you tell difference?

Ask yourself following questions. Read each question carefully and really think about it before answering. When answering, try to be as truthful as possible. If you can honestly and sincerely answer "yes" to all or nearly all of questions, it may be safe to assume what you feel for other person is actually love and not merely lust.