There's so much confusion about love and attraction that it is a miracle that any relationship, whatever the nature, ever gets put together. Once you begin to notice the opposite sex as something cute or handsome, you are responding to emerging hormones that will affect most of the rest of your life.

That feeling that keeps you consumed with thoughts about the one you thought was so cute might be attraction, but it is not love. Love is something else entirely and comes in many forms. What's the Law of Attraction have to do with any of this? Plenty!

When you are young and daydreaming about someone two desks over, you are sending vibrations out to both the object of your attention and the Universe. Since attraction is a nice feeling, you are generating energy that gets the attention of the Law of Attraction. When that happens, Ms. Right or Mr. Wonderful will find you, sent by the Universe to fill your request. Stay alert! That person might not be who you were expecting.

When you get older and are thinking about marriage, starting a family and settling down with someone for the rest of your life, your idea of cute or handsome will have made some changes. Now you will want stability, a good income, sexual attraction and love. The person of your dreams will walk into your life if your visualizations are clear and not infected with negative emotions or fears of rejection.

Daydreaming is actually visualization, so be careful what you daydream about. While it might be fun to daydream about that wild thing on a Harley and riding off into the sunset, the Law of Attraction and the Universe will send something that matches your daydream, whether you meant it to or not. You will realize your mistake when the wild thing rides off into the sunset without you. Was that love? No.

If you are aching for close, loving friendships, you need to decide what that means to you…close, loving friendships. Do you want someone to have coffee with once in a while and talk about books? You need to visualize someone who's well-read, articulate and likes to drink coffee. If you want a friend to join you in playing computer games or to surf the Web, you need to visualize someone with computer skills, curiosity and can remember URLs.

But, if you want a friend who turns your mind on, shares dreams with you and will hold you when you are hurt or sad without asking questions, you need to visualize specific qualities. If you need a friend with an active, fertile intelligence of their own who can appreciate yours, visualize intelligence without arrogance and a gentle approach to life.  

If you need one who is not afraid to dream and will reach for them when they start to float away, visualize imagination and creativity.

If you need a friend who will know when you need to be held while you cry your heart out in some deep pain, visualize one with compassion and experience with deep pain of their own.

When you need a friend who is not afraid to love you or feel your love in return, send all the love you can out to the Universe and more love than you ever thought about will be sent back to you.

Relationships based on myths about true love can be found everywhere. The simple fact is that bad love affairs and even worse marriages are products of what the participants visualized or sent out to the Universe. Teenage ones spark like lightning and burn out immediately, leaving someone devastated and wanting to die.

Partners marry, have children and split up. In the consuming chores needed to raise children, one or both of those partners might want out and leave the once happy home. The love they showed on their wedding day did not survive everyday pressures.

The only true love resembles the energy force of the Law of Attraction and cannot be broken by petty day-to-day troubles. It comes from the Universe and slides into your heart soft as angel feathers, filling you with total love. When that happens to you, your heart will sing and you will know that you just met the Law of Attraction.