I want this - Not that

Right now, even though I am having a great time with the way my mood's being all these few days and how I am dealing with other things in such a positive manner. I do get the occassional blues about being confused on what I really should be looking for in a woman. Even though the fact still stays that that it is not amongst my list of priorities at this time or place; but I still find it hard to distinguish between the two big L's - love & lust.

For many, they will find that they can easily differentiate between the two. But for someone such as I looking for the right one, or as many would like to call her; the one, it would seem too daunting a task.

After all, a fruit is only as good as it tastes, right?

I mean, what if a woman is really a nice woman from the outside but totally wrong for you from the inside. She'll probably treat you right in the beginning and then later on in the relationship, should it continue, she'll create some problems for you and maybe all of a sudden dump you.

Don't get me wrong here. I'm not taking sides. I'm not generalizing this natural evolvement of emotions and bodily feel with the gentle sex. We, as men, are also prone to such things.

What I am trying to ask is, in either cases, how would you know?

For example, different people have different opinions. And such is their way of interpreting the way they percieve the surroundings and what often happens to them. So to them, their way of translating their loving emotions to us would sound like it is lust and vice versa. Get me?

So the question, again, is: How do you distinguish between love & lust?

I would love to hear your answers on this..