Infatuation
We need to first love and understand ourselves, and out of this understanding we can seek to understand another's suffering. But when compassion for ourselves is lacking and we don't understand self, out of this misunderstanding arises an incomplete love for another, which serves as a distraction for our own suffering-this is the infatuation or crush we have for someone else
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