love at first sight

[SarahMini]

Does anyone here believe in love at first sight, or love at first encounter? Anyone experiencing it?

[Gan]

I do believe it partially happens - but obviously you have to really know someone before you can actually "really" love them.

-Gan

[meg]

I believe in lust at first site/encounter. Love takes time to grow.

[Luvin BRlAN]

I believe in love at first sight, because I am experiencing it right now. I was with my (as of today) EX for over 4 years. I thought I was happy and loved him, but I see now that I was wrong.
His sister and her hubby are in the middle of a divorce, I went to his work one night to get some cd's and instantly, all feelings for my bf went away and i felt fireworks like never before.'
We snuck around for a while, but I am now with this other guy (as of 15 minutes ago) and i have never in my life been so happy just being around someone. i know it is only going to get better, and for you people who dont believe in LAfS, you have never felt like this.
OuT

[Spirit]

Yes...

There is something to love deeper than the physical and mental attributes society generally places on it. There is an unseen connection, a spiritual union, an unspoken communication that happens between humans, and sometimes these connections happen by two spirits just meeting totally unexpectedly and taking there own course beyond there owners physical control. For example, bumping into a stranger in a shopping centre, or just a quick physical eye contact across a dance floor.

Peace

[MajorMax]

It depends on your acception of "love". Be it:
a) the feeling of having 'butterflies' in your stomach (infatuation) - then, yes, love at first sight is possible.
b) the feelings of trust and mutual respect and everything based thereon - that implies knowing the person, which excludes the possibility of love at first sight in this case

[Champ1]

I wouldn't say love at first sight...but i do have a similar story.

Well...it all started last year (i had started a new degree), first semester...i knew nobody -- so i checked up the class lists...one name out of all intrigued me so much..that it stuck into my head for the start of the semester. I didn't know who this girl was - so i tried to figure out who belonged to this name, which i was pondering about. Although, at the time i developed crushes on girls i didn't even know - even went to a faculty introduction camp ...and was hoping that the girl was in a group of mine for the activities...but it didn't happen.

It had been 4 weeks and i still didn't know who this girl was. Although i was suprised when i found out that this girl was going to be in one of my for an assignment...

Time came when i had to meet with the group...and finally...there she was! I greeted her - i shook her hand....and i guess...i felt something...a feeling - don't know if she felt it too back then.

So whats in a name? Weird stuff i say! Something connected me with her name...which led me to find her....fate??

[Velvet G]

Instant attraction? Absolutely

I have someone in my life who had my number before we ever said hello, but I don't think it was love. Some people just do it for you, you know?

I'd like to believe that sometimes destiny takes over and people meet who are supposed to, so the best I can say is:

I'm hopeful.

[tomkel1129211]

I think there is lust at first sight. Sometimes (not too often) you meet someone and you BOTH have a strong attraction to each other. You cannot keep your eyes off of each other. This is not love. You need to know someone before you can love them.

[stereoseraph]

It's all about where fate leads you, as far as I'm concerned. Sometimes you and fate need to get together and work things out, but basically, where you're going is where you're going, and your choices lead you there.

Love at first sight? Why not? I've heard before that we have a certain code to our brains and only one other person can figure that code out. So how could one deny it when they meet him/her? It's a bond meant to be love, and that's all that matters.

[airdeuzel]

I really don't think you can love someone you don't know quite well. One of the foundations of love is friendship and that doesn't come at first sight. Love is something that grows between two people, not something that happens within one person.

Of course, you can feel attracted to someone you just met but you can't call it love. Sometimes, such an attraction will evolve into love and people will see it as "love at first sight" but I don't think it is.

[wwildnpeaceful]

THE END.

[hmmchacha]

We realized that we were in love with the surfaces of each other. Once we began to get to the core of each other, we realized many of our differences we did not like at all!

I was anticipating the cutest love story:(

What sort of inner differences can you discover about a person which cannot be detected from private conversations?

Is it really possible to think you know someone, until you become physically intimate with them, when you realise that you have incongruous ideals and outlooks?

[Chuckie]

I believe that love is a bud of a flower, you have to nuture it to get it to grow. If you give it to much sunlight it will die, too much water will make it sick. Lack of water or sun light will kill it, it's a careful balance. Sometimes to much sun light is actually good for it, other times the normal amount of sun light is to much.

I have somewhat defined the growth of love between two people, but the thread is about love at first sight.. thats easy thats the realization of the exisitance of the 'bud' exisiting between two people.

I hope I don't sound too Philsophical I just got done reading pages and pages in a Newsgroup in a philsophical debate on the existance of god. :o

Anyways Happy Trails,


Chuck

[girl]

I'm intrigued too- how did sex get in the way of an otherwise healthy relationship, or rather, how did it change your perceptions of each other/your relationship?(if you don't mind explaining) I could understand if the attraction was only physical or if sex made a freindship weird, but your case is unusual...

[hot4tchr]

Umm...yeah it exists...let me tell you, but after a nasty six year marriage, being saddled with a bankruptcy and divorce, I gotta tell you, I don't think it's true love. :dodgy:

[dewshine]

Hmmmm I believe that there can be attraction at first sight...a kind of click that makes you want to know his soul. I believe in spiritual soul-mates. I've even met mine, are we together? No, we aren't because there was just too many obstacles in our lives. Sometimes love isn't enough.

I went on a blind date right before thanksgiving, hadn't met the guy before and never saw a pic of him...but let me tell you, by the end of the date I had a feeling......A feeling that I was looking at my next husband. He has a twinkle in his eye whenever he looks at me. I was comfortable with him from the very beginning, like I had known him for years. I still feel that way about him and we're so happy! Not that I'm planning our wedding yet, I'm just enjoying what we have, without the complications of marriage.