Is love at first sight real, or is it lust?

Answer 1

Love at first sight, while romantic, is not possible. You can be attracted to someone - their looks, charisma, personality, power, etc. - but you can't know you are in love with them in the way you know you love someone you have come to appreciate on a much deeper level.

That said, you CAN fall in love with someone you were attracted to upon first glance. But that's not technically love at first sight - that's luck. Love almost always starts with an attraction of some kind because it is an easy way to evaluate your interest in another person. Love is a much more complicated feeling that is devalued every time we suggest it can be achieved with a glance.

Answer 2

Well, there are two types of love. There is the worlds love, and God's love. The worlds love uses sayings like love at first sight, falling in love, etc. It can also be described as "passionate lust". Really fits doesn't it? But really now, God's love means that you would do absoultely anything for that person, even if it means your life. Now it isn't, you want to impress that person so you'll do anything. It's your in a tough situation and it's his life or yours. You would vonlunteer. That's TRUE love. Not any of that "passionate lust" stuff.

Answer 3

Lust...

But that does not mean love can't follow!

That instant attraction we feel is our hormones going POP! But love is something that stands the test of time. And it grows through many different stages.

Enjoy the lust... even if you don't act on it...(if you do make sure you do it safely!). Lust is fun...but love is AMAZING. Love often has very little to do with lust.

Like when your partner has a cold and you make him chicken soup and hope he feels better. Not much to lust over with a sniffing snot filled coughing wheezing guy who keeps you up all night and makes you worry that you might catch it too but you love him and feel bad that he feels so yucky and wish he'd feel better.

You get the idea.

So get to know the object of your lust filled thoughts...maybe he will turn out to be Mr. Right!

Answer 4

I don't believe in love at first sight. It's infatuation or lust in the beginning, then can mature into love once the two people get to know one another.

Answer 5

Only lust is first sight but it could lead on to the real thing.

Answer 6

Lust...attraction...perhaps infatuation, yeah...but love? I don't buy it (in spite of what some people claim)...how can you love, with your heart, in a romantic way, someone you know absolutely nothing about?

I think what occurs is when the initial attraction develops into love, sometimes quickly, the two people feel as though that feeling at-first-sight was love, because it's the same 'now' or even bigger...but it was just the spark...not the bonfire...

Answer 7

I won't deny it that love at first sight exist...

but in reality it is lust...so don't confuse it with love...

you love someone after knowing them...but lust is when you look at someone for the first time and start liking them

Answer 8

I think you can feel for someone at first sight but real love would come after a while.... that is my opinion, but you do have some great feelings with some people you meet sometimes and it might be a start of something.

Answer 9

Honey, in most cases it is infatuation and lust. You may feel it is love but in reality it is just something you want and think it is love.
Many people find it hard to distinguish between love and lust. There are cases where in time it turned into love. Good luck in whatever you decide.

Answer 10

Lust opens your eyes to the possiblilities to love.

Lust is like a coin flip ... sometimes it can lead to love and other times it can lead to heartbreak. This is why for over 5,000 years, women have been taught to be chase ... to be patient and to take the lust and see where it leads to before giving it all away.