Can A Person Be In Love With Two People At A Time?

@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
May 4, 2007 1:58am CST
I have heard people say things like, I love them both and I can't decide. I do not believe that you can truely love two people at the same time. Simply because you can not give your all to two people. When you really love someone, you do not want to be with anyone else. You don't want to neglect the one that you love, you want that one to be totally happy with you. So you spend every spare moment of your time with them. Do you agree with this?
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@gaby_girl (157)
• Canada
4 May 07
Although it hasn't happened to me, I think its possible to be in love with more than one person at a time. I am deeply in love with my boyfriend right now, but I can see me falling in love with someone else by accident. NEVER intentional...id never go out LOOKING for someone, and even if I did fall in love by "accident" I wouldn't act on it. I would never cheat. But you cant really tell your heart what to do. I think it could happen to anyone.
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
4 May 07
Believe it or not, love is a choice. Although, we may not realize it, we choose who we want to love.
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• Canada
5 May 07
How can you think that its a choice? Do you choose to love your parents? Its not like people sit down, and say okay...this is who im gonna love. That is seriously the most ridiculous thing ive ever heard. When I realized that I loved my bf, I was in DEEP SHOCK, because I wasn't looking for a serious relationship at the time. It is NOT a choice, unless you're a robot.
@ESKARENA1 (18261)
4 May 07
As i have got older ive begun to realise that there really are many different kinds of love. It is also possible for some people to love someone but not be in love with them. However, for me, love is the closest connection it is possible for two people to have and is something that grows over time. I feel when it is real love it can last a life time if it isnt it passes and changes blessed be
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@ESKARENA1 (18261)
4 May 07
in which case i would have to say no. Love is the great deceiver, sometimes fooling the unwarey blessed be
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
4 May 07
I know that there are many levels of love. I was asking whether or not a person can truely be romantically in love with two people at the same time.
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@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
4 May 07
Certainly you can. I have been for years. Its not likeyou only have a specific amount oflove, it just continues to grow with every person you fall in love with. Just like having children, you don't divide the love, you multiply it
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@judyt00 (3497)
• Canada
4 May 07
by the way, what you described is more like infatuation and lust.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
4 May 07
I am speaking of an intimate, romantic love. It can not be compared with any other love that you feel for anyone else. That is why I used the term "In love."
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@CopyPaper (228)
• Philippines
4 May 07
Of course not. You can't love both side because you can't marry both of them, you need to decide and balance whom you loved most. This is not only for yourself but also the guy you loved. It's too pity for them to wait for nothing, you know.
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• India
4 May 07
I agree with judyt00 love is never limited to one person at a time & there is no hard coded rule that you should only love 1 person at a time & don't look at others. Any person can love anyone & it only just grow leaps & bounds but you cant ever stop love from spreading its wings ;)
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
4 May 07
Again, I am speaking of being in love romantically with one person at a time, as opposed to being truely in love with two.
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@fazelath (1174)
• India
4 May 07
yes people can love both,u must have heard of 2 timing,their are many men who have 2 wifes at the same time,cos
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
4 May 07
Just because a person is two timing or has two wives, does not mean that he is truely in love with both of them.
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• India
4 May 07
well i think thats absurd......i do not think that u can love two people at the same time....if its love of a man for a woman u r talkin of....although i think that u can fall in love with more than one person in your life its more of liking than love, when u cannot decide betn two persons, u think u love them both, but, maybe u love one of them and just like the other immensely, u have to decide whom u love and whom u like.....its a matter of personal choice, u have to be very careful here so as not to make the other person angry or red with u.......love is a beautiful feeling that u can have...and there is no other matching in this world
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@dbeast (1495)
• India
4 May 07
i dont think it is possible to be in love with two persons.it might be something like puppy love which makes a person think that he is in love with two persons.when we are in love with a person we try to give it our all to that only person and to no one else.that is nature.
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• United States
4 May 07
I agree with you. I do believe one can love as many people as possible, but when it comes to being in love, it's only one person.
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@chyszh88 (56)
• China
4 May 07
I agree with you.I think someone can not truely love two people at the same time.If some one say they can,I reckon they do not really in love just for fun or other things.
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@parnap (124)
• Indonesia
4 May 07
yes offcourse, my personal experience, i love three people at the same times :P
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• United States
4 May 07
I think for everyone the deficination of love is different. We all think we know what love is but it means different things to different people. I want different things in or from the man I love then I am sure you do Rozie. Maybe the person who thinks they are in love with two people is getting part of what he/she needs from one person and another part from another. I have been married for 30 years but in that time I have been in lust with other men, I have thought at a time I was in love with someone else. I did not act on it, it did not mean I did not love my husband it just ment I was having a hard time in my marriage and the "grass looked greener on the other side of the fence." The mormens who believe in bigmony they say they love more than one wife. So I think depending upon how you are raised or what you deficination of love is will depend if you feel you are in love with two people at the same time.
@feliniti (875)
4 May 07
I think it is possible to feel that one is in love with two people at the same time. However I think that it is deceiving oneself. The reason I say this is because I do not think you can truly love someone and also love another person at the same time. I think that if you do try to do this you cannot give your all to both people. One must suffer and ultimately the person who is trying to love two people at the same time could end up alone. I do agree that there are different kinds of love. I do agree that people can think they have fallen in love with two different people but it is an illusion, because one love will be less than it was before. Therefore you can only truly be in love with one person at a time.
@wonderful1 (2075)
• China
4 May 07
I dont think a person can love two people at a time.I don't think he/she knows what is love. I believe that a person can like two people at a time. You can choose one of them as bf/gf,or make friends with them and go on to seek for your partner. I often make friends with someone I like, and I love only my Mr.right. When I was a student in a college , I make a bf, but we say goodbye after graduation. Sometimes, I will miss him, but I dont love him. I can't forget that he at least tured on in my life. He is like a relative for me, I hope everything is going very well for him.
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@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
4 May 07
I have been and am in love with two ppl at once and have been for close to 10 yrs now..mind you my "other" hasnt been in my life for 2.5 yrs due to mental issues etc but I had him and my husband both and I love them both fully and equally but for different reasons..they are two totally different ppl so its not like their is any competition for lack of a better term......BUT I'm not one of those "I need to spend every waking moment with you" kind of ppl...I never have been really just cause that attitude (in my life) drives me absolutely NUTS...
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
4 May 07
I just remembered the saying, "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." I don't know if you know what this means though. Could the fact that you are with two people have something to do with his mental issues? Do they know about each other? I don't mean to be rude, but I consider this kind of behavior both selfish and immature. You have to grow up and decide between one or the other. This is wrong on so many levels. I hope this kind of thing never happens to you, because as the old saying go, you reap what you sow.
@megaplaza (1441)
• Nigeria
4 May 07
love was meant to be between yu and just one person. if you love more than one person, you are just findig it hard to decipher and understand how you feel, and i bet you that when you do. you will find out that you love only one person.
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@megaplaza (1441)
• Nigeria
4 May 07
i dont think you can be in love with two persons romantically, except you are cheating. true love was meant to be b/w just you and one person. anyother thing is false. why it seems people love two or more people at a time is bcos sometime, we find it hard to understand our feeling and we thought we are in love with those people, but if only you search ur heart. you will find out that you love only one person.
@liming (114)
• China
4 May 07
You say the truth. But there is hard to find perfect matter in the world. When you can't make decision between the two, normally these two both have some shortcomings for you, so you can't find a better one. If a partner perfectly suitable to you appears, the problems relating with choice would not take place any more.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
4 May 07
This very where the ego takes over, I believe, because when we use this method for choosing we fell to realize that we are not perfect ourselves. I say, choose what you can learn to live with.
@joycer (498)
• Sri Lanka
5 May 07
Yes. Actually it could be more than two. Usually this happens in men. Many are not contented with their girl. There may be traits that she has found from the other girl that she has not seen from number one. Or the third one, who is number three might be showing more caring, and other traits which he might not have felt with the two. Other men can keep up with that. They say they love the three women and can live with that. Of course, if I we're the other woman I do not want my man to have other girl, except me. I can't live with that. If he wants her, then I will set him free.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
5 May 07
This does not sound like a person in love to me, this sounds like lust.
5 May 07
If they want to.
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
5 May 07
You say, if they want to, but is this in fact true love or is it lust or some other kind of false feeling.