
Among the many reasons that lead a person to have extramarital relationships or an illicit affair, attraction can be counted as a key factor. But what can have ugly consequences is when you are committed to a lover and then you act upon your attraction with someone else. Should you feel guilty about that? Not necessarily because being attracted to someone is human nature. Sometimes, you might be in love with someone and still, you might get attracted to a third person. Many great men have paid the price for this dilemma. You might be attracted to a person but it does not necessarily mean you are in love with him. You might often mistake attraction for love and misunderstand love for attraction. Yes, it can be very confusing to distinguish between the two. Now let's try to understand love as opposed to attraction. The famous Japanese novelist said he wanted to call it 'magnetism' for the lack of a better word.

This perhaps comes closest to the perfect definition of attraction.

Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in," wrote Haruki Murakami in his novel 'South of the Border, West of the Sun'. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. “I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute.
