What is the difference between love and friendship? What is the essential difference between love and friendship? The main points are as follows: 1. Love is special and friendship is universal. Love can only happen between a pair of men and women who love each other, and no third party is allowed to intervene, which has the characteristics of exclusiveness and specificity. Friendship, on the other hand, has the characteristics of universality and intersection, which can occur between the same sex, the opposite sex, the same generation, and even between the elders and the younger generation. 2. Love is independent and friendship is easy-going. Love is based on mutual love between the parties and cannot be forced. A fell in love with B, and B also fell in love with A, so the relationship of mutual admiration is love. Just because you love each other, they have to love themselves. The flower of love is watered by men and women on the basis of deep friendship, and it has achieved fruitful results in facing marriage, hoping to become lifelong partners and establishing a family. In many cases, the establishment of a love relationship will also have the mediation and help of others, and it is necessary to listen to the opinions of parents and relatives, but in the end it is entirely voluntary and decided by the parties themselves. Generally speaking, friendship is also established voluntarily by both parties. But sometimes for the benefit of the country, the collective and others, the two sides are not completely voluntary, but seek common ground while reserving differences on the basis of principles, or make some compromises and concessions, so that friendship will not break down. Therefore, friendship has the characteristics of easygoing. Love is persistent, and friendship has stages. Love and friendship are different. The affection and obligation factors contained in love exist not only in the whole process of premarital love, but also in the married couple's life and family life. Without a solid love foundation and lasting love, it is unhappy. Friendship can change due to changes in environment, work, ideology and hobbies, or it can be interrupted at any time, so it has the characteristics of stages. Love is secret, but friendship is open. Because of the exclusiveness of love, love is only revealed between men and women who love each other. Intimate language, emotional communication, and mutual love behavior are mostly to avoid others and have strong secrecy. Friendship is different. It's just a semi-gay relationship, emotional exchange, learning from each other, learning from each other and helping each other. It is not limited to a pair of men and women, nor does it need to avoid others deliberately, so it has the characteristics of openness. For young students, it is particularly important to correctly understand the characteristics of friendship and love and their essential differences. It is not uncommon for some people who don't understand these things to deal with the feelings and friendship between students of the opposite sex and bring themselves a lot of trouble and distress. A junior two girl said in a written report to the class teacher: "I did a stupid thing before you gave us an adolescent education class, and now I regret it in retrospect." Lin XX, a classmate sitting in my front row, is very handsome and his grades are outstanding in the class. I admire his talent. I have something I can't understand in my study. He always helps me so enthusiastically and seriously, which helps me a lot. I have a good impression of him. Since I made friends with him, I have often taken the initiative to chat with him. But when he found that I was too intimate with him, he often deliberately avoided me, which made me very distressed. Later, I wrote him a letter, expressing my affection for him, hoping to establish friendship with him and asking him not to make friends with other female classmates. After receiving my letter, he wrote back to me, telling me that I shouldn't know the problem like this, and I shouldn't feel like this. I am very sad to read his letter. I hate that he doesn't appreciate me. I'm afraid he is unfriendly to me and always contradictory. Sometimes I am absent-minded in class and daydream. My score dropped from 10 to nearly 20 due to distraction. I feel very sorry. It's hard to calm down whenever I think about it. Since learning the knowledge of youth to associate, I know what is friendship, what is love, what is the difference between friendship and love, and what is wrong thoughts and feelings. At that time, the friendship I hoped to establish has deviated from the boundaries of general friendship, which is a manifestation of not understanding the true meaning of friendship. Now my understanding has improved, my thoughts have been untied and I have become relaxed. I will certainly handle the feelings and friendship between students of the opposite sex and try to catch up with my studies. "This example warns students that they must keep a clear head, have a good proper limit, don't be emotional, and deal with all kinds of things rationally. Selected from Youth Guidance, Section 4, Adolescent Communication, Section 2, Heterosexual Communication 1. Distinguish between friendship and love.