Do you believe in love at first sight?

love at first sight - is love at first sight really true?
Philippines
April 15, 2012 1:16am CST
well, i havent experienced love at first sight but some of my friends had already. they told me about it, and said that the first time they saw that person, it felt like heaven. and to them, a voice inside them tells them that they are the one. however, falling in love at first sight does not guarantee a long lasting relationship. for you, is love at first sight true?
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• United States
15 Apr 12
I do! I met my wife for the first time for dinner one night. We didn't leave until after midnight, when the diner finally closed. Neither of us wanted to go home, and we were together every night after that. I think I moved in about 3 weeks after our first date. It was quick and fiery. Now that we've gotten older, things have calmed down. I still love my wife as much as I did when we first met, but it's a closer relationship now. I wouldn't recommend to my child to get married to someone six months into a relationship, but it has worked for me.
• Philippines
15 Apr 12
wow! that is so sweet! falling in love at first sight, getting married, having kids. great! im happy for the both of you. keep loving each other!
• Philippines
17 Apr 12
I believe in love at first sight! I agree with your friends. Yes, I also agree that love at first sight doesn't guarantee long-lasting relationship but it's still worth it. The first time I saw my boyfriend, I already imagined him being my boyfriend, loving each other, dating, talking sweetly, being together happily, I already imagined ourselves in a serious relationship even before he got to know me! And my imaginations have become real. We are now in a two-year relationship, very happy and in love! Though there is no guarantee for forever relationship, we are both working out to make the relationship last.
• Waltham, Massachusetts
16 Apr 12
I have mixed feelings about love at first sight. I have never experienced it and I don't know if I'm the type of person who could or would. But that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. I believe in God even though I can't see God. I think that people have different definitions of love or being in love or both and that's ok. I feel that I can be attracted to someone at first sight and might want to meet them but to me that's not love. My experience has been that love takes time and that falling in love can take time too. It takes time to get to know someone and all the bad and good that comes with them before there is love involved and for them to get to know you too. And there's unrequited love too as well when things are not mutual for both people. To me love and falling in love is complex.
• United States
16 Apr 12
I think you can certainly have a large attraction or lust for someone at frist sight, but I don't really believe in love at first sight.
@kehyrie (54)
16 Apr 12
I would say that it's not true. I think, love, like anything else, does not grow the very minute you saw someone. It's just an attraction, I guess. :) Besides, I haven't experienced it yet. So I'm skeptical about it.:D
@superbadx (484)
• Malaysia
15 Apr 12
Well, in my whole life of 18 years living, i have only encountered 1 love at my first sight. And yes i do believe it. There are others, but you yourself can feel the difference even if you haven't even talk to them. Love at first sight may not be a happy ending, but at least you know that you can fall in love, and not just playing with it.
• Romania
15 Apr 12
Yes, it's called seduction. The two individuals can have a long lasting relationship if they want or they can just feel good with each other and then move on. Anyway, I see it as something your mind plans ahead consciously or unconsciously, not as something that comes out of the blue.
@GemmaR (8517)
15 Apr 12
I think that when you're thinking about things like this, you have to consider what you believe love to be. For me, I think that love is a commitment between two people that know each other, and those two people know that they are going to do anything for each other. When you first see someone, there is no way that you can "love" them. The feeling that you're experiencing at that point is lust and nothing more. It might develop into love in the end, but I don't believe that the love comes until later in the relationship.
@Kojigirl (188)
15 Apr 12
Yes, but not with people. I have fallen in love at first site with dogs, cats, cars and even a house. But not with a person. I've been married for seventeen years, but if you'd told me this was they guy I was going to marry, I'd have told you there were rocks in your head.
15 Apr 12
I don't believe in love at first sight, well I admire at first sight, but it's not love for sure, and it's also hard to say that it's not true because some do claim that they experienced it already, maybe not only happened to me yet.
@doroffee (4222)
• Hungary
15 Apr 12
I don't really believe in it-not in my case, at least. I think that first impression can be infatuation or attraction, but not love. For me, love means loving that person for who they are, everything about them, their traits, their humour etc., not just how they look... I have to get to know the person to say that I love them.
• Philippines
15 Apr 12
i really don't believe in love at first sight. "like" at first sight yes, because you could be attracted to the person because of his or her looks. it takes sometime to realize that you love a person. because you have to know her positive side, and think if you can accept his or her negative side. love takes time.