I believe that Romeo and Juliet were not in love, and throughout the play it was merely lust. There love was doomed from the start. Not only did they rush their feelings, but their families hated each other. Juliet was set to marry another man that her father gave approve of, Paris and with the secretivity of Romeo and Juliet's marriage there's not many ways it could have lasted. Juliet wasn't the only one that was preoccupied with plans for the future, Romeo was madly in love with Roselin. “Out of her favor, where I am in love.” (Romeo I. II. 158) Juliet didn’t want much to do with Paris, while Romeo wanted everything to do with Roselin, mostly to bed her. Also, Juliet was extremely skeptical about marriage and the thought of having to