forms of love

[Aleada]

what is the difference between being "in love" and loving someone?

[Insane Patient]

To love is; to cherish, to be kind to, to want to spend time with, to respect, to enjoy, to trust, to want to know better. 
to be in love; to be smitten, infatuated, enamored, hooked, taken with, besotted, head over heels.