What is the difference between falling in love and being in love?

I think falling in love is when you newly fall in love with someone or something, as in it is quite new, compared to being in love, when you are sure you are actually in love with something/someone.

I think more or less it’s the same. One way and another. Love is unconditional anyway. No matter how you describe or name it as long as you feel it you’ll fall in/being in love.

A chemical stew When you fall in love you are under the influence of one.

“Studies in neuroscience have involved chemicals that are present in the brain and might be involved when people experience love. These chemicals include: nerve growth factor,[5] testosterone, estrogen, dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin, oxytocin, and vasopressin.[6] Adequate brain levels of testosterone seem important for both human male and female sexual behavior.[7] Dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin are more commonly found during the attraction phase of a relationship.[citation needed] Oxytocin and vasopressin seemed to be more closely linked to long term bonding and relationships characterized by strong attachments.”

Falling in love means you have a target and you move it around for the best shot.

Being in love means you and your target are in a relationship.

Falling in love: The point further than infatuation but not yet love.

Being in love: The point where you will give up comfort, money, sweat and endure pain so that the one you chose will never have to.

Falling in love is irrational, hormonal, perhaps pheromonal. For me, it is what has driven me to find out if this is the person that will become the relationship for me. It gets me to stay to find out if we can endure each other’s flaws.

Being in love is where you not only recognize someone’s flaws, you realize those flaws are integral to the person you love.

(That does not mean those flaws do not need modification or correction, just that you know they are part of the person you love.)

Being in love for me meant addressing my own flaws to become a better person.