That's what's called a crush..Love may or may not come later and you'll have your answer in time. Sorry if that wasn't the answer you were looking for.

It's the beginning stage of a road that *could* lead towards love, which is just called admiration. A relationship develops when both people realize that they make each other happy, then they eventually decide to be around each other all the time, which is when both start exploring "love" and calling it "love" by saying "I love you" endlessly. So, yeah, you may say your situation is what love feels like, but I would say it's just the very beginning. Love is just something that's both positive and shared. There's a nice sunset outside. Yum.

It's the first step on the road leading to limmerence which could precede or occur at the same time as love.

How to tell if it's true love: 1. KNOWLEDGE You can't truly love someone you don't know well, with the exception of a new born baby. You need to see the person's good and bad sides, see into their inner being, not just the image they portray or their physical beauty. Many marriages founder because couples marry without truly knowing each other properly. If someone says they are in love with a movie star on the basis of seeing him/her on scren or in magazines, it is not true love, it is infatuation or lust. 2. RESPECT This involves not just being prepared to accept and live with, but also genuinely admiring someone's beliefs, ideas, ethics, philosophy, attitudes, way of life, ambitions, and achievements. You must like the person for who they really are. This is the most important part of love. 3.CARE Wanting the person to be happy. Being able to empathise with their feelings. Being interested in the day to day happenings in their life. Caring about their long term future, not just the present. 4.RESPONSIBILITY A feeling of commitment and duty to the person. Still wanting to look after them even if you get nothing back in return. This is especially true for parental love, but also should apply in an adult relationship. You can know or respect or care or feel responsibility for someone and still not love them. Love is only true if it involves and combines all four of the above things. And most importantly, at least for adult relationships to work, these factors have to be in place from both partners! EG The object of your affections must understand, respect, care and feel responsibility for you in roughly an equal measure as you do for them. Think of all the people close to you, parents, close friends etc and go through the list thinking about each of them in turn. Then go through the list again, working out how many of these people return equivalent feelings towards you. Finally go through the list thinking honestly about this guy that makes you go all gooey. You will now be able to answer the question you posed for yourself. The least important factor but unfortunately the one most people focus on with the strongest emotions in romantic relationships is: 5.ATTRACTION A physical feeling, (disappointingly!) caused by chemistry and biology, not magic. An acid test is: would I still want to be with this person and look after them if they had been involved in a serious accident and their face was disfigured and they were paralysed from the neck down. If you can say yes, that is true love. When I was dating I used this 5 point list to measure up all my boyfriends and it worked for me as I have been happily married for 30 years!

it is what is called infatuation. True love comes only with time.

Yadda yadda yadda I don't want to hear it!

A crush, that is, my young one. Filled with joy, your future is. :)