How do you differentiate being in love with someone to being infatuated or just simply liking someone?

That is a very good question LavenderHart. It's a great place you're in....questioning yourself....it means you don't take love lightly and you don't take the love that people give you lightly either. I can give you some general answers but ultimately you are the only that can truthfully answer the question. Usually, if it's true love, there will be a calm or peace that usually is not seen in infatuation. Both ways you'll most likely want to be with the person all the time. Go to bed thinking about them...wake up thinking about them...etc. But with infatuation it will feel more like a deep craving that inhibits most or even all other aspects of your life. In love it will enhance rather than inhibit. Keep asking yourself lots of questions like: Am I a better person or a worse person when I'm around him? Do I think about more than just sexual things when around him? Do I see us still together a year from now? And you should also ask yourself the most basic of questions too....that most people leave out because they always think it'll just work it's self out....it doesn't. Does he have the same beliefs as you? How to treat people: strangers, family, friends. Would he cheat on a test or lie to get out of trouble? Does he have the same morals and values that you have? Important questions even at a young age. Good Luck. and you can ask me anything you want and any time.