i think love at first sight is real.i think love is when u can't live without that person

From my experience, you don't fall in love at first sight. People who fall in love, fall out of love. People who grow in love, just keep growing more in love.
Now before you get mad at me for saying that, there are a few exceptions. Sure there are people who just "know" they are meant for each other when they first meet, but not so often as we are led to believe. Usually that's just physical attraction.
The guy I like I didn't like for three years until after I got over my crush on him, and really got to know someone. That's very important- getting to know someone. If you don't know the person you want to have a relationship with, you will get hurt and surprised at what you find out.

Umm yes and no. Since physical attraction is what draws ppl together first I think we consider it love. However I don't think that is strong enough to keep someone together? The guy I'm with now...his name is Jon. I've known him forever. He's such a sweetie. Seriously forever though b/c our dads grew up together so we were kinda raised together. I think once I got outta that little kiddie crush stage and started seeing guys differently..prolly around 13..is when I "fell in love at first sight" with him. But I don't think that it was REALLY love until we started getting serious about things and really getting to know each other deeper than just friends. Idk...it's a nice thought but I don't think you can fall in love on looks alone..
~Serena~

I know there is such a thing as love in first sight, it's happened to me.The only problem is that the guy dosen't think I exist.

"To love a thing is wanting it to live"

I do not believe in love at first sight. I think you actually need to know the person before you can say you love them. In Romeo and Juliet, Romeo claimed he had never loved until he had seen Juliet's face. But...that's all he ever really saw isn't it? I mean, did they really get a whole lot of time to know each other at all before they killed themselves? He loved her just by what he saw, and for all the wrong reasons, which isn't really love is it? Personally, I believe love at first sight belongs in fairytales and that's where it should stay.

In my humble opinion, when the phrase "love at first sight" came into play, it wasn't meant to be taken literally. It meant that you "fell in love" shortly after you met, as InnerPeace was saying. You can be attracted to a person the second you see him/her, but to be in "love", you would need to know the person.
Now, of course, this takes us to the true definition of love, which has been torn up to much to understand anymore. being "in love" and "loving" someone, evidently, are different things. I love my mom. I love my friends. I love music. So how do you know when "love" changes into "in love"? Maybe it never does. At the moment, I think love is just love. There are certain degrees, such as my love for God is more than my love for, say, olives. Being "in love" has to do with physical attraction, emotional attraction, mental attraction, etc. You could find that in a number of people. Your "soul mate" is whomever you happen to get ahold of first.

Wow. I've gotten so off-subject. Sorry. =)

I have no idea if love at first sight is reasonable. I know I fell in love with a girl once very soon after I met her, we'll say that she caught my attention the first time I met her and that I thought she was intersting. That was a little more than a year ago, we're pretty good friends now. As for knowing when your in love, imagine life without that person, period. I know that my life would be torn to shreds, taken out at the seams. I'm generally an independent person, and although I could/ might possibly live out my days without a mate, it's pretty difficult to ignore love. It's that feeling of comfort, of feeling like a better person, an elation of the senses, and don't forget that ripping pain whenever you think of them as not there for some reason.

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yeap, jenos i'm with u on that one.
its how they look. like they say
B]don't judge a book on its outside.[/B]

I don't know. I'm a big romantic so I want to say yes...but I'm also a very logical person. I'm going to say yes and here's just an example: My first day of band camp (over a year and a half ago), I saw my now current bf, JD, and I, a lowly freshman, could tell this older guy was loved by the band when my director announced him as section leader for the mellophones. During the season, I would see him once and awhile and only talked to him a handful of times (and once I said, "You're really tall" and that's it). I didn't really like him, I didn't even know him. But I could just tell he was a cool guy. However, I had a bf at the time and didn't really even notice this guy that much---had I been single we may have gotten together sooner.

A year and two months later after that first day of band camp, we got together. And we've been happy for 5 months and counting. Maybe it wasn't exactly love at first sight...but there was definitely something that sparked, even when I didn't even know he existed.

I'm with celtic on this one... IF you are a dude you can gauge lust at first site by checking your pants.

Many scientists have discovered that love at first sight is body language oreintated. Peoples pupils eyes widen, go throught various motions, all of which are picked up subconciously by the subject of the sight. That person then responds subconciously in a similar way.

I believe in lust at first sight, not love.

I could believe in it, but I doubt it, I think it's just as Jenos said attraction, plain and simple.

I don't think that is true love though, bauhaus, simply attraction.

I think so. I was in macys once, and this hot girl was looking at stuff with her friend and I was with a friend who was looking at stuff too.. but for some reason we both looked at each other and we kinda had this expression like... whoa and i know we were thinking the same thing. we both were distracted, it ended just like that and I never saw her again.