Many people say this, but is it actually possible to happen to a person? Is it reciprocated?
2007-12-29 16:41:08 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Psychology
The only time I've ever heard someone say they felt love at first sight is when they are talking about the love they have for their children.
Romantic love? It's more like lust at first sight and then after getting to know someone come the love.
2007-12-29 16:56:25 · answer #1 · answered by *A Few Quarts Low* 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, love at first sight is not possible, but whether you believe that it's possible, depends upon what you call love. Love is subjective. What you call "love" might not be what I would define as love.
To me the best way to know the difference is, how would you feel if that person were taken away. Can you truly say that if you saw someone for five seconds that your life would be totally devastated if you never saw them again. But when you truly love someone, that's what it feels like. Your life is devastated when you lose them. There is no way that you could compare the way that you would feel about losing someone that you only knew for five seconds, with how someone feels when they lose someone that they have grown to love over years. There is no comparison. One is love, the other is only infatuation.
2007-12-29 18:06:28 · answer #2 · answered by Mark S IV 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was a myth until it happened to me after 30 + years of a happy marriage, when I met a new girl at work. It was totally unexpected and happened in the few seconds that it took to shake hands and exchange names, and if I had known it was going to happen I never would have gone near her because I love my wife very much. But you know how it is; you can't unsee something, or unsay something, and you can't unmeet somebody. Trying to be friends with her without stepping over the bounds of impropriety is like walking a tightrope constantly. Fortunately for all of us she recently took a job elsewhere and moved on. Throughout our 2 year friendship at work she always acted as if she felt the same about me, but neither of us ever used the word love. She too was happily married.
2007-12-29 16:58:57 · answer #3 · answered by nachtmann2 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It might not be reciprocated, most of the times it isn't (at least at first). And I wouldn't call it falling in love. It's more of a general interest. Happened to me a couple of times. Both of them were big disappointments (let's say I couldn't try to hold an intelligent conversation with them without wanting to stick a fork in my eye). I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you only fall in love based on your first impression you might be soon falling out of love.
2007-12-29 16:49:43 · answer #4 · answered by Filipe F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe in it. I think lust at first sight is possible. I think many times people think it is romantic to say they fell in love at first sight with their significant others, when in actuality, it is not true. They may have had tingles in their stomach, and had LUST at first sight, then happened to fall in love with the person over time. However, I do not believe it is possible to fall in LOVE at first sight. The times that we get tingles in our stomach when we see a person, and a relationship does not work out, get forgotten about. We only pay attention to the times when something does work out.
2007-12-29 16:44:41 · answer #5 · answered by mrr86 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No! its total BS! you may become infatuated with someone, and grow to car for them,loving them, etc. But this whole fallin love fantasy blahhh doesnt exsist. its something people make up to go awwww on! Thats it! It helps to soft'n a harsh world for some. Look at it this way, if a man meets a woman for the first time and hes thinking love at first sight he's called crazy, insane, stalker,etc. Yet if he keeps his mouth shut, goes after her, ends up getting with her, and then years later he says "I knew I loved ou the first time I saw you" then its awwwwww that was so sweet! yet he's the same guy now as he was when he first met her. LOL Society sucks! So after that story wether love at first site is true or not, its obviously illeagle! :)
2007-12-29 16:47:10 · answer #6 · answered by I Love Me a Freakin Good Burrito 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think it is, then again i think love at first sight is because the persons involved are lonely and are ready to jump into someones arms as quickly as possible. The hard part is for both to feel the sameway.
2007-12-29 16:45:50 · answer #7 · answered by Maniac Mark 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
/ No not really, because it is only lust.
It can grow into love, but then it still wasn't love at first sight, even if the two stayed together since day one.
Now, a Romantic would disagree with me, but that is someone who is in love with being in love.
2007-12-29 16:45:35 · answer #8 · answered by kNOTaLIAwyR 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with soren, but I will say, that yes, there is. I have been in love with someone for over 15 years, I do love them, but he and I are not meant to be together. I am married to a wonderful man, but am in love with the other guy. It does not help we have the same b-day... so i think of him alot on my-and his- b-day!
2007-12-29 16:48:13 · answer #9 · answered by Dragonflygirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Its called attraction, which is okay to start out with I guess, but love is a very deep, and complicated emotion. It cannot be achieved in a moment based on outward attraction.
2007-12-29 16:44:59 · answer #10 · answered by Monica C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋