Difference between love and friendship?

In this serial and also in some other serials, movies and stories (both fiction as well as real life), we hear the statement: -
"I do not love him/her. We are only good friends."
When they make the above statement, it is obvious that they feel there is some difference between love and friendship. What difference are they talking about? After all in both love and friendship, the couple (friends or lovers) care for each other.

I suppose the distinction has to be made between romantic love, familial love and "friendly" love...romantic and familial love are self-explanatory, and love in friendship can often mean simply that, "Yes, I care for/worry about/would do anything to keep that person safe, but I am not attracted to them physically or emotionally; I love them as a friend, but I do not feel for them romantically".

In the case of these serials, everything is sadly black and white - men and women can't be friends w/o someone, somewhere with a narrow mind pointing out "oh look, they spend so much time together, they MUST be having an affair!" (which by the way, doesn't make sense at all - "affairs" happen when one or the other is married; if both are single, then it is not an 'affair' at all 😆)

And in Prerna's case, this is exactly the point - one minute she says that Anurag is just her friend, then next she is dreaming about all the love/romantic moments that the two have shared...and that's why every Tom, Dick and Harry wants to set AP up again, despite AP protesting that they are 'just good friends' 😕 😆 In this serial, there is no line between love-in-friendship and romantic love.

Amma u r right.
Anurag always dreams of the moments he spent with Prerna, so much so that he went on to say to Prerna while proposing to her that will u be able to forget the memories of us together, when Prerna said to him that Mr. Bajaj's memories are something she can live with for the rest of her life. Listenin to Anurag's crap the kids went on to set up AP.
So basically Anurag has been lieing that they r just dosts...
come on he loves Prerna, how disgusting is that.

Originally posted by: psawyer

love in friendship can often mean simply that, "Yes, I care for/worry about/would do anything to keep that person safe, but I am not attracted to them physically or emotionally; I love them as a friend, but I do not feel for them romantically".

Doesn't caring for somebody require feeling for that person emotionally?

^Yes, but not in the same way that it would if they were 'in love'.

Originally posted by: psawyer

^Yes, but not in the same way that it would if they were 'in love'.

What difference are you talking about? Are you talking about romantic feelings only or others as well?

Originally posted by: prettysorath

there are many diffferencezz b/w luv and frndshipp

What are those?

See, being "attracted" to someone implies there is a degree of desire, physical attraction, sexual attraction, etc etc...but when there is friendship, and only friendship, the emotional level is different. Friends cry with each other, laugh with each other, feel anger for and the need to protect each other, but there is no sense whatsoever of a physical desire to be close to that person. Of course, people who are friends do fall in love, and lovers are very often friends too, but when there is only friendship, the mind does not make those connections that you would with a lover, or someone you were attracted to.

There are so many people that I know personally who are best of friends, who 'love' each other but are not 'in love'. They would go to any lengths for their friends, but they don't nurse a desire to be with them, to marry them or to have their babies or something like that 😆 They do not, unlike AP, feel jealousy when the other is happily in love/married with someone else; they do not wish that it was them in place of the other person. They are simply happy that their friend is happy, and beyond that they have no desire.

Originally posted by: psawyer

See, being "attracted" to someone implies there is a degree of desire, physical attraction, sexual attraction, etc etc...but when there is friendship, and only friendship, the emotional level is different. Friends cry with each other, laugh with each other, feel anger for and the need to protect each other, but there is no sense whatsoever of a physical desire to be close to that person.
There are so many people that I know personally who are best of friends, who 'love' each other but are not 'in love'. They would go to any lengths for their friends, but they don't nurse a desire to be with them, to marry them or to have their babies or something like that
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So, in both love and friendship people care for each other. But the difference is that in love, there is physical attraction and the desire to live together but in friendship, there is no such desire. Right?

[quote] 😆 They do not, unlike AP, feel jealousy when the other is happily in love/married with someone else

Who felt jealous? Anu or Prerna or both? Can you give some examples from kzk?