Love help: Do you believe in love before sight? - Help.com

love before sight, or love at first sight?

CONFUSED!

i dont know. i will get a feeling about someone if someone is telling me about them, and i havent meet them. but i really havent heard about it that much, whats it about?

yeah, i spose i have, i felt like that with someone.

I don’t know if I do, it’s never happened to me before.

I believe that it can be true, but only up to a certain point. I think it’s more of a question of how deeply you can love someone that you have not met in person. There are many things that just aren’t the same when you know someone in person and before you meet someone. Things that you may have thought were really “sweet/cute” could turn out to be very annoying to you.

Before you meet someone in person, there is so much that is left up to your imagination, so you could really be falling in love with a person who you created in your mind. But after you have met them, then it becomes real. For some people, the love they shared before they met may become even deeper, but for others it just won’t work out.

Did you read the article online?

I guess with the internet, yes. I can see it happening through chat and emails.

Yes, I do…I seriously fell in love with my future husband before we ever met in person. Tho, I did see his pictures…is that “sight”? LOL

It was truely his personality that I fell in love with tho and not his looks.

Honestly, I’m not even sure that love exists at all. But that’s just me.

awwww, what a sad thing to hear Xeno :( But I am feeling a bit sappy right now anyway…watched A Walk to Remember last night. I cried my eyes out.

I wuv wooo!!!! *mushy hugs*

Well, I’ve never experienced it… so I don’t really have much to go on.

I have fallen in love with someone whom I’ve never met in person.
I am still in love with this person and they love me back.

I have run into someone who took my breath away, never actually figured out who they were, but it was a pretty cool experience.

Absolutly

Maybe he/she is a love from a past life.

That’s an interesting idea privat.

It happens to me a lot, I end up constructing images of them in my head… over time I forget them.

Xeno Dragon wrote:
Well, I’ve never experienced it… so I don’t really have much to go on.

I suspect you’re better off not knowing what you’re missing. ..That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway. ;)

Sure, lots of people fall in love that way - look at Napoleon Dynamite (well, his older brother, anyway). lol.

Ultimately, unless you’re Rocky Dennis, seeing someone (visually) isn’t important as far as establishing a heartfelt connection. Of course, it’s a lot easier to hide things about yourself if you haven’t actually met…so I wouldn’t say it’s my optimal choice for falling in love (especially if the online hottie named Tina turns out to be a construction worker named Ted, or vice versa).

..Then again, ‘love’ isn’t really a choice - it just happens (or so I’m told). So maybe the medium really doesn’t matter at all.

Good point warrior poet. The blind don’t see who they fall in love with.

i_mademoiselle_j wrote:
love before sight

Yes I believe it, hard to explain it but I do :)

I read somewhere before that it only takes two SECONDS in eye contact to make us know that we ‘like’ this new person in front of us. Sometimes it’s just past just like that, sometimes that person become our friend and some become lover :)

And most couples I know confess that they already like each other since they first meet and when it becomes love… chemistry people says… or mystery that happened before they haven’t actually met…

That’s the answer that I want to know too :)

it’s hard to explain :)

others might see it as love. depends on people i believe. i believe in attraction.

I talked to someone online for a couple yrs. We were so into each other. When we met it was no where like online. I didnt like him at all in person. I didnt like how rude he was to a waitress. Not anything he said to her but how he waved his hand like to signal get lost etc. I didnt like his body language when we had conversations. He talked the same and was the same but seeing his body language with the conversation took on new meanings. I missed the person I have grown to love online and had to go thru relationship withdrawls but I learned a super big lesson.

Yes, but perhaps this particular love cannot be the ‘true love’ that people experience when they are face-to-face. It’s hard to explain, but I do think people can fall in love with each other’s personalities, and not know what the other looks like right now. It’s just a different ball game when one speaks of love face-to-face. Confused reply I know, but that’s how I feel about it.

To ‘maximalism’ - I think your answers are pretty fine too! Sorry about the delay, I couldn’t find where to send private message to…duh. :)

i do, im blind