Is love at first sight really possible, or is it more often than not a mere illusion sure to end negatively down the road?

Personally, I think it's "lust at first sight" not "love. " You don't know anything about them, so how can you love them? Sure, you may find out later that you have a lot in common, share similar values, and you may come to love them, thus leading you to believe that that first sight was somehow fate, and confusing your first impression with your long-term feelings, but love at first sight?

I don't think so. You're never going to hear a guy saying "wow! Would you look at the integrity on that girl?

And man, does she have compassion up to her eyebrows! I'd sure like to see the dignity and sense of humor under that sweater! " It's all physical attraction until you get to know someone for who they are.

We may feel better calling it "love" because it makes us sound less sleazy, but it's pure animal desire. We often try to hoist mental attributes onto people, or make flattering assumptions about people, in order to justify our physical attraction, but it's just a mental game you play with yourself. You WANT them to be the good person you could actually see yourself with, so suddenly the fact that he has a nice blazer on means he's a hard worker and a decent person.

If someone is so shallow that they would "love" someone they know nothing about, I would say that personal is incapable of actually feeling love. So, to them, first sight or a ten year relationship is all the same, but rather than call the first sight love, I would call their entire life a wash.

I don't think there is. Love is usually based on emotions towards people, due to personallity, and how they act around you and different people. Love at first sight would be purely based on looks, and while someone may look good, that doesn't mean your in love.

Falling "in love" is a chemical, hormonal reaction that can last for a few days, a few weeks, a few months, or a few years. Usually, the actual feeling of being "in love" goes away by the end of three years. Then you have to determine if you truly "love" that person enough to stay with them.

True love is something that builds over time. The chemical reaction that is "being in love" is designed to keep us together long enough for us to develop real love. So love at first sight is not an illusion, but it may or may not be true love, just as with any physical attraction to the opposite sex.It's not doomed to failure any more than a relationship that starts any other way.

I agree that while attraction may be chemical, love is not. I believe attraction can occur at first site, but again, not love. Attraction is the bodies' response to compatible genetics.

Love is something that develops over time. A feeling of wholeness, acceptance.. when it gets to the point that another person is so close to you, they feel as if a part of you, that is love. That does not "disappear" in three years it only grows, but it doesn't occur on site either.

I don't believe in love at first sight...just lust. Easily confused when you get those first time jitters...

I don't think there is love at first sight.... There is however attraction and infatuation at first sight. And these may or may not develop into love At first sight all you see is that appearance. You don't know the person.

You know nothing about there mind, opinions, emotions, hopes or dreams. All of that stuff is important in love and its missing.

Actually, 'love at first sight" is not acceptable for me per se. For to love is to know a person well to harbor deep feelings for him. Mostly when people say 'love at first sight' I think it would mean that they find that person very attractive for them to be very interested tin getting to know that person better.

But mind you, attraction alone is not not necessarily a guarantee that it could lead to a more serious or committed relationship. For it takes two to tango. So, in this case attraction can be a starting point of a great relationship or of one that could go down the drain.

I don't believe in love at first sight. For me it is just an illusion. I think it takes time for a person to fell in love.

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