What is the difference between infatuation and love? One uses, while love seeks the highest good of the other.

This is the contrast:

Infatuation grabs.
Love gives.

Infatuation asks, “What can I get from you?”
Love wonders, “What brings you wholeness, even if it costs me something?”

“Love… does not seek its own.”
1 Corinthians 13:5

Lust always seeks its own.
It uses people as mirrors to admire itself.

Love shaped by Jesus thinks in a different direction.
It chooses the other person’s wellbeing, even when nobody sees.
It protects and honors the other person.

Paul writes about Christ’s example:

“Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us.”
Ephesians 5:2

Infatuation wants to take.
Love is willing to lay something down.

Infatuation feels urgent and burns fast. Love stays steady and builds slowly.

Infatuation tries to fill emptiness, while love creates room for someone else to flourish.

They come from different sources and produce different fruit.

When love thinks of the other, it becomes a place where two hearts can actually grow.