Do you See Physical Attraction in relationships.....??

@arunmails (3011)
India
April 28, 2010 8:11pm CST
[b]Hi Friends, Do you see the physical attraction in relationships...?? One of my friends had a cousin.. who was very beautiful, they were very close to each other... one day his cousin was met with an accident and his face, legs, hands were largely scrapped.. After coming from the hospital, there were many marks and his face looks so bad... from then onwards I could see some changes in my friend's activities... He began to avoid his cousin in all occasions... it is terribly a bad situation for his cousin... but, my friends are accompanying him... Is the physical attraction is more importation to you in relationships...??[/b]
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@balasri (26537)
• India
29 Apr 10
It takes a loving selfless wife,a beautiful daughter and a happy family with lots of incidents and experiences in life to find an answer to this question. It dawns on every one that the physical attraction has no relevance to true affection and love at one point of another in the life time. The time it takes may differ from person to person.But it sure happens Arun.
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• Mexico
29 Apr 10
Hi balasri: I agree with you. Physical attraction is a good beginning but there is a point where this doesn't count at all, specially when you know this person very well and you finally decide that you like him/her because of how he/she is and not because of how he/she looks like. Thanks for your answer. Alvaro.
@balasri (26537)
• India
30 Apr 10
@vandana7 (98952)
• India
29 Apr 10
It seems your friend gives more importance to physical appearance than his cousin does. But you said both are men here, isn't it? Are you sure there wasn't some rivalry or something that led to such things? I am not too sure men avoid other men be they friends or cousins, just because of changes in physical appearance. It may be more than that. After all, your friend doesnt have to live with this person for lifetime! The same would not be true if it were a spouse!
@arunmails (3011)
• India
30 Apr 10
the point is avoiding him is indirectly insulting him right...??
@vandana7 (98952)
• India
1 May 10
Hi arunmails, nobody I know avoids handsome cousin who has become uglry because of accident, especially if they were close. There is something else which we dont know. I for one wouldnt find that as the sole reason to avoid. However, I would use it to escape a situation in which I felt was a trap and which I had been desperately trying to avoid even before the accident, but I could not.
@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
29 Apr 10
hi arunmails the inner person, the personality the character were more important to me in my few relationships. My husband was not ugly at all, but not really handsome but to me he was as his inner being was truly beautiful and his personality was so sunny and charming and laid back. I am glad your poor cousin has his friends at least. Or is the cousin a girl anyway people should look beyond the outer surface as that fades intime but the goodness of a person a nd kindness and great personality outshine outer beauty.
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@arunmails (3011)
• India
30 Apr 10
Good one.. the inner person matters a lot...
@besthope44 (12123)
• India
29 Apr 10
If the relation is based on physical attraction then it means its gonna be not a life long one. As any beautiful or ugly person physique will change upon time. So love one true heartedly.
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@arunmails (3011)
• India
30 Apr 10
Love never ends but the physical appearance has ending...
• Philippines
29 Apr 10
Physical attraction at the start of the relationship is normal. But after several days of being together, sharing hopes and dreams, loving each other's flaws, I really don't think it is important anymore. That's the part when what we saw before on the surface becomes to fall off until we are all left loving the "true person" the persona behind what they eyes can see. Things that we cannot see.
@arunmails (3011)
• India
30 Apr 10
Love is more important than beauty...
@kedralynn (980)
• United States
29 Apr 10
Looks shouldn't matter, but sometimes they just do. We can't help it. As for your friend, maybe he avoids his cousin because it's too painful to look at the scars and not because this person is no longer beautiful? I've never had a good relationship with my father and he got very very ill. Over the years his looks went away. I never talked to him much to begin with but now that he looks like a skeleton and not like the man I knew, I don't see him often. It's just too painful to look at. It's not that he's no longer a handsome man. It just hurts to be reminded how sick he is... Maybe it's like that? As for physical attraction when it comes to a lover... well when I love someone they become beautiful to me, no matter what. My partner has put on a few pounds and he's losing his hair but I still think he's gorgeous :)
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@arunmails (3011)
• India
30 Apr 10
for someone appearance is more important but, for someone appearance is not at all a matter...
@dawnald (85135)
• Shingle Springs, California
29 Apr 10
Hm, let's see, handsome wife beater or homely but kind man. I pick the wife beater! NOT. No, attraction isn't the most important thing.
@vandana7 (98952)
• India
1 May 10
@savypat (20216)
• United States
29 Apr 10
No I rarely look at people, when I meet someone I get feelings about them and that is how I recognize them and relate to them. I would be no good in a line up if I had to identify someone by the way they look. Of course I notice if they look very different from the rest of us, but I soon forget their looks even then. I like you because of who you are inside not on the outside.
@arunmails (3011)
• India
30 Apr 10
its a straight reply.. very straight...
• Mexico
29 Apr 10
Hi arundmails: I don't judge because it's really hard to watch a person after having an accident like that. Some people can't afford to look at someone's face after that. I think Physical Attraction exists but it's not all. Love is more than that, love makes people do some things for the good of the person they love and not only for pleasure. I think it's selfish to left someone you say you love because of an accident that makes him/her change, but as I said before, I prefer not tojudge. Thanks for asking us this difficult question. Alvaro.
@arunmails (3011)
• India
30 Apr 10
he might have thought if he would have talk with his cousin, people may avoid him because of his cousin ugly face....
• Philippines
29 Apr 10
Sometimes it really is important. Some people want to like what they see. That is why.