Do You Believe in Love at First Sight?

No, I don’t believe you can just by passing by them or introducing yourselves to each other. However, I do believe that you can fall madly in love with someone by getting to know them and that the feelings you get from that can be so strong that you PERCEIVE love at first sight to be the only explanation.

If you don’t have a lot of experience dating, you’d immediately assume he/she is “the one” once you two clicked.

Today (6/22/09) my husband and I are celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary – and yes – it was LOVE at first sight. AND, before the love at first sight happened I was very clear about my intention to manifest big love (all of which is in my book THE SOULMATE SECRET. Here’s what I know for sure: BIG LVOE is possible for anyone of any age if you are willing to spend a little time getting absolutely clear about what you want and you prepare yourself on all levels for love. I have seen men and women of all ages make this work.
Wishing you love, laughter and magical kisses,
ARielle

*shakes head* Oh Trevor, how wrong you are…

I’m a cynic. Really. I think people are fundamentally stupid and leaders are fundamentally evil. I am no kind of hopeless romantic.

But love at first sight is very, very real. Know how I know? I’ve experienced it.

There was no retrospective pondering. There was no confusion on the difference between love and lust. It was what it was. And even a hopelessly sardonic person such as myself simply couldn’t deny the reality of it. I knew I loved this guy. The moment I saw him.

My job is such that I stand in the street and ask strangers to talk to me. Being a young, reasonably attractive female, I get asked to go out for coffee or a drink or lunch probably 2 to 3 times a day. I say “no thank you” 95% of the time, and most of the 5% of the time that I say “yes,” I only do so because it’s the last couple days before payday, I’m starving, and if someone wants to buy me a sandwich, I can live with that.

This guy asked to meet up with me, and I said yes. Not because I was poor or hungry. But because I genuinely wanted to. If he hadn’t asked me first, I’d have asked him. I knew within 30 seconds of setting eyes on him that I wanted to know him, that there was something special about him, that I loved him. I didn’t even get through my pitch. I had more important things to say to him.

We stood on the street talking on a level that I never get to with some of my best friends. And when we met up that evening, we talked like the closest of friends, the deepest of confidants.

He had to leave the next day – he was there traveling. But we’ve kept in touch. And every conversation I’ve had with him has been the best conversation that day. And when I pass his way on the way back into the country (we are both American, but I live abroad), I will go out of my way to visit him. I have to. I’m driven to.

I’m a cynic. Not an idiot. And I know love when I see it.

This was love. Yes. At first sight.

You know, I never use to really believe in this sort of thing until recently.

I have been in love once before, so I do know the feeling. However it hasn’t been for some time.

Let me just say that I’m out every weekend meeting new people all of the time, usually dates during the week with whomever I may see fit, so I’m no stranger to a new pretty face.

A few weeks ago I was sitting at a meeting when a division head walked in with a question, his new intern following him. Waking up from my regular meeting drowsiness… I glanced up and locked eyes with her almost automatically.. I couldn’t take my eyes off her. I casually looked away after a few moments as to hopefully not make it awkward, but I felt compelled to look back up..she instantly looked back again locking eyes.
While he was asking the question to another manager at the meeting, I looked up almost instinctively at her again and answered it for him, I felt like I had to say something even if it wasn’t pertinent to what I was thinking. As they walked out she turned her head around, looked directly at me, and smiled.

I’ve only seen her from a distance since then and unfortunately it’s never a situation when I can spark a conversation (we’ve still never spoken to each other), but for some reason I can’t take my eyes off this girl (and vice vsa) whenever I see her and shes been on my mind a lot, I’ve never been like this before for as long as I can remember.

For all I know she could be married with three kids or engaged etc, but I definitely know that this isn’t the same “I’d like to take her home tonight” or “I’ll try and get her number” feeling which is all I’ve been seeming to find as of late.

I’ve been in relationships after my “love” ended, but even when I first met those individuals; it was nothing like this.

I’m not saying I’m in love with this girl, but there is definitely something out of the ordinary about her, some sort of natural attraction or addiction that for the life of me I can’t explain :/

i know that this was posted two years ago but recently something like this happened to me, basically I was dumb and let her get away and now theres no going back and I will probably never see her again. i know that its two years later now but if I were you and you still saw her I would take a chance with her, because you never know when your going to come across a special someone like that again.

I believe it. I have never met my boyfriend but have talked to him and I believe he is the one.

Believe it. I’m 47 years old and found the love of my life by accident. Won’t ponder you with the details but within a week of meeting her I told her I didn’t believe in love at first sight. She said she didn’t either. Then I added “Until I met you.”

Later that night we said ‘I love you’ for the first time. It’s been about six weeks since we met and I can’t live without her. I called my friend and told him I had found The One.

That’s what I call her now…’The One.”

NO.. You can not love a person just based upon first sight. To me, you meet and get to know a person completely …spiritually,physically,emotionally and the chemistry of coarse . There are steps and a little time involved to really know..You can be sparked quickly by physical attraction and fooled!!!!!

I never believed it until now. A guy working in my office just lights up the room with his smile. He is the most perfect human being I have ever laid eyes on, but I think it is beyond lust. He makes me happy just to see him, on such a deep level, and I feel that I can see his soul, his personality, the wonderful, warm, funny, intelligent guy within him, behind all the bravado he tries to display! And when we talk, it is like my connection to him just comes alive, out of nowhere, and I just flirt and joke like crazy, and have to stop myself from jumping on him !

Yes, love is deeper than sight. But sometimes at first sight, you can tell a lot about a person and connect at a very deep level that is not about looks.

I also think that having this connection gets you through a lot and gives you something to come back to.

I have experienced love at first sight twice, once in September 1970 and once in December 1984. They were under quite different conditions and different experiences. The first was with a woman (girl), that I saw at a party, I was immediately drawn to her. We struggled in our relationship and could not effect a match on timing. I continue to think of her fondly every day, and we have never parted in such a way that we could not approach each other with assurance of a cordial reception. She was my mother in my most recent previous life (probably accounts for the attraction and the conflict). The other event involved a new assignment with a military unit, I saw a man across a room and I instantly felt like I had just seen an old friend. He is to this day my best friend. We go “way back,” at least 150 years. This was at least the third time we have served together. This is my explanation of love at first sight, it is only love at first sight with the current body. Spiritual beings know each other.

I am now an absolute believer. I married a guy I fell for slowly. I was not crazy about him at first – but I ended up falling in love with him. That marriage ended horribly and I was feeling very very guarded of myself. I had a lot of guys asking me out but I was set with being single for at least the next 6 months.

Then – not sure how this happened – but I met a guy last Friday and I seriously had this strong ‘love at first sight’ feeling. We hit it off immediately. He calls me every day and we can not wait to see each other again. We only met the one time – and we have made plans together through December. I have this overwhelming feeling like I just want to make him happy and have fun together.

It all sounds so silly and maybe it is. But I would not be a ‘love at first sight’ believer until now.

I never believed in it until it happened to me. I saw him and knew he was the one.

I was caught by surprised when invited to a party, before I got out of the car my brain when blank and a smile in the face as I looked at him I said to myself there he is: I don’t know why I said that, but he told me to seat on his lap and we kissed all night. We are inlove.

awwwwhhh that is adorable

I am 38, I’ve been married (and “in love” or what I thought was love, but obviously it did not work out over the long haul) and I wouldn’t say I believed in “love at first sight” until about a week ago. The experience “J” had is VERY similar to mine, except I am the woman in the scenario.

Two men came to the door of my laboratory, and one of them continued in to the lab and simply asked for some paper towels. Our eyes definitely locked, and I swear neither of us could say anything. We were both completely frozen there, just staring in to each other’s eyes. It was the strangest moment I have ever experienced. Not like the times when I see some very attractive man and want to get his attention, so I stare…it’s as if there was nothing that could compel either of us to look away for a good 5 seconds (at least it felt that long). After that time of staring at each other, I said blandly “they are right in front of you” (because the paper towels were indeed in front of him and it was all I could think of to say). That was it: all the interaction we had, and I dwelled on that moment for a week. You must also understand this: there is nothing remarkable about him (he isn’t ugly, but no underwear model, either..more “Science Geek”, and not exactly “my usual type”. His very thin and tall, wears glasses, would blend in a crowd well. Looks smart, if that says anything. I’m located at a college campus/town and see all types throughout my day. We also have an ever-changing pool of attractive, educated men. But, none has ever caught me off guard like this.

As of yesterday, I gave up thinking that I would get to see him again, believing he maybe was just a visiting scientist or something…because surely after that intense moment, he would have tried to “bump” in to me at some point if he was still here, right??? Guys, would you try that after a moment like that? Or, maybe he tried and was not successful, so I am unaware of it. Or, maybe he is in a relationship. I had pretty much given up ever seeing him again, until…today:

I was showing someone around our building, and coming down the stairwell, and who do I see and lock eyes with AGAIN?? It virtually took my breath away. I am pretty sure my eyes followed his as he traveled halfway up the staircase until I could no longer see them. Not a word from either of us, again. But, what would either of us say?

Now, I really can’t get him out of my head. So much so that I Google “love at first sight” to see what comes up and I end up here. He looks somehow familiar, but I know I have never met him. I feel like he “gets” me even though he doesn’t know me. I feel like I am SUPPOSED to be with him, even though I am currently living with someone else. It is the most foreign, crazy feeling – and so out of character for me.

I also know a guy that this happened to many years ago now. He is married to the woman and they have two children. He knew the minute he saw her and even told my friend and I (because we were there the minute he saw her) “she is going to be my wife” before he ever even talked to her. I thought he was absolutely crazy, but now I am truly a believer.

I don’t believe in it whatsoever. I know it hasn’t happened to me, so how would I know, right? Well first of all, MAYBE it can happen. Like what? Once, if you’re lucky enough. To whoever said they fell love at first sight TWICE, I have to say, that’s quite impossible. But I guess it just all comes down to your own definition of “love” and if you believe in it or not.
Personally, I think to love someone, you don’t have a real reason to why you love them, it’s everything. For “love at first sight”, it’s impossible to know who or how the person is until you talk. Maybe it’ll all go well and there’s a strong connection between 2 people who just met. However, love only comes AFTER you start talking and understanding the other person. It takes time to love someone, because love is also when you care about someone more than you. It usually doesnt feel that way with a person you’ve just met, even though you may “love” them.

But I’m not saying it can’t happen. I’m just saying that I personally don’t believe in it. But who’s to say if it’s real or not

Its funny because as many of you have described… I never fully believed in this “love at first site” thing until this happened to me…

When I first saw him a while back, i literally grabbed my chest because I physically felt my heart give one tremendous beat. Id never been so immediately drawn to someone…. the way he spoke, his demeanor, the way he walked, what he talked about…everything. I felt that Id already known him somehow and immediately felt so comfortable. I felt automatically connected to him…attached. And his smile, omg…so genuine and amazing. He was so kind and warm and I can’t forget about how I felt…even though that time was short. We have only had a few encounters… but all were not the right type of opportunity to “pursue” him for lack of a better word.

Anyways, I know its supposed to be infatuation & lust…I mean I don’t know him well enough, right? But its just that I have thought about him every single day since the day I met him (maybe 8 months ago?). And every day I hope to see him again (we go to the same college…but there are over 30,000 people!). It makes me really sad that I haven’t seen him… And I can’t take interest in other guys! which is ridiculous! but its just that no one has ever given me a feeling comparable to this guy I met…. I know I sound obsessed but…well maybe I am haha. I swear im not some creep tho lol. this all sounds so stupid doesnt it? lol..its just that at the moment i first saw him…without hesitation…it immediately clicked that we were supposed to be together…

Totally with you LT and Ashley. I too have been struck by that particular sort of lightening, but mine was 16 years ago.

It was my first day on the job at a school and I was being shown around by the senior teacher. I walked into a room and saw this senior student and felt the oddest sense of recognition, although I knew we had never met. We were introduced very briefly and my tour continued. I was barely ten steps down the hallway when I had the most powerful urge to run back, throw my arms around him and tell him that it was okay, I was here now, I loved him and I was never going to leave him. I had to remind myself that A/ he’d think I was insane and B/ I’d get the sack instantly. So I took the sensible route and resisted the urge, instead I worked on getting to meet him properly and get to know him.

This was in no way lust. I felt like I could see his heart and soul, and while his face was pretty his spirit left me speechless! I did get to know him, quite quickly as it turned out, and he was just as interested in getting to know me. When I left the job some months later we started a relationship. That turned out to be several years of heaven and hell, which left me mentally and emotionally ripped to shreads.

I’ve spent years researching, reading, trying to find an explaination; the best one I’ve come across is that this was (and is) a “Soul Connection”. 16 years later I’m married…to someone else, but he’s still in and out of my life, and still on my mind and in my heart like he was from that first moment. We can’t be “together” because we are too much fire and ice, our love is too hot and too intense to live with day to day. But it IS love, very deep, and very very real. Not a crush, not an infatuation, not an obsession but a mutual, abiding, sometimes terrifyingly overwhelming, unconditional love.

i consider myself a brilliant kind hearted person and until a few months ago i never believed in love at first sight.
im still very young only 19 and just began college last semester as well as a very consumptious business venture with two of my friends so falling madly in love with someone was not my main priority.i had just gotten out of an extremely long and unhealthy relationship as well which made the idea of entering another serious relationship even less appealing.

it was one of my first days at my college and when i walk into my class a girl whom i hadnt seen since middle school recognized me and said hey. i thought she was very sexy and definately would not mind going on a date with her but i sat down across the room and didnt pursue her.
during the class we had a 30 minute break to get some food or use the restroom w/e so i bought a drink and sat down in the lunch room alone with maybe a dozen other people who were on break scattered at different tables mostly girls tho. so im sitting there watching the tv they have on the wall in the lunch room and thinkin about how many beautiful girls i had seen at my new school when wouldnt you know it my old middle school friend walks up behind me and starts messing with my hair then gives me a flirty smirk and sits down we start talking blah blah blah she laughs at all my jokes then two of her other friends enter the lunch room and approach us so im sitting at a tiny square table flirting with theses three girls who are obviously interested in me.at this point i could sense every other girl in the room was staring at me without even looking at any of them. i am not overly confidant or arrogant at all infact i am much more self concious about myself then i can stand at times, but i am however extremely logical and can evaluate in certain situations like this i think anyones insticts draw out that emotion of knowing that every other girl in that room had some feeling of jealousy and wanted attention from me and only me.at this point im not being cocky but im definately feeding on being center stage to maybe 10 gorgeous girls who dont even know my name, im sure they were drawn to the mysteriousness it portrayed like i was some big shot who has three girls with him at all times, even still i knew i could walk away from the table, pursue any other women in that room and likely succeed.it was almost like they were all falling in love with me.

so there i am on my high horse feeling great about myself and the new friends im making at school….im center stage (and were putting it on wax, its the newww style!lol) when out of the corner of my left eye i see 3 maybe 4 girls walking through doors at the far end of the lunch room towards the library which is through doors at the opposite side behind me.anyways i turn my head i guess out of habit to see whos walking across the room and i find myself staring into the eyes of the most beautiful women i have ever seen in my life.it was only for literally a split second that left me only enough time to see her absolutely perfect face before her and the group entered the library.after seeing her i just shut down and was not interested in anything those girls had to say i was in shock. my brain felt like it was floating out of my head and my heart wanted to jump out and give itself to her.the way i can describe it is that i was basically looking into a mirror and saw everything i am and everything i will be in her.almost like she was my twin and we knew everything about each other except there was still so much we could talk about and experience together our lives would be some adventure.i just somehow knew she had been waiting to look into my eyes for years..

a few weeks went by i had been really busy and stressed out so i hadnt really thought about her unless i was at school walking down the halls on my way to class or hanging out somewhere in the building on break. even then i had almost given up hope and basically forgot what she even looked like. then after about 2 months, while im up in front of a class speaking about some stupid group project….. i walk up to start presenting and as soon as i look out to the classroom full of maybe 50 students i give a big smile and look out into the crowd and as i say hello im immediately looking directly into her eyes because she is sitting in the very back row.i have never been so warm and happy in my life.and while i see her friend next to her is whispering something in her ear she never breaks eye contact for one second. i couldnt bring myself to look back at her again because i could not concentrate during this speech. i ended up sounding fairly articulate but all i kept thinking standing up infront of the class after seeing her and knowing she was looking right at me was “i hope she feels the same im so in love she is absolutely perfect.”

it had now been twice i had only caught eye contact for a split second although long enough to gaze into her eyes and let her know how i felt. god she is so amazing. after that day we still had that class together i found out but i just never found the right moment to go up and talk to her because it had to be perfect and it always seemed like something was off when i would be like todays the day. we only had class once a week for about 2 months and the one day i arrived to class i was convinced that nothing would stop me from being with her but she didnt show up and i was left feeling so damn empty.on the last day of our class about a week or two ago i wanted to approach her after class because this could be my last shot. as soon as the teacher dismisses us her and her friend bolt out of the door it seems like and so i pack up my books and things as quickly as i can and start walking outside when i see her and her friend about 100 yards away to the right at the parking lot already about to get in their cars and my car is all the way on the other side to the left so i just said fuck it i’ll just go balls out and roll my window down on the way out in my car and so i drive out of the parking lot as quick as i can and i end up being stuck right behind her friend. i look around and see if shes maybe infront of her but no luck. there were definately so many things i could have done just to get it over with and formally introduce myself no matter what was going on but its deeper than that i have never been so emotionally invested in the hopes we would be together about any other person in my life. now heres my situation,i have no way of contacting her, now way of knowing if she is even still going to school next term,and i dont know a single person who is friends with her.im definately crazy for her ever since that last day of class i think about her atleast once a day.im not going to give up hope but the next time i see her i have to just make her mine.even thinking of that encounter gives me the worst butterflies ever.

love is the ultimate drug of obsession, and i know i would not feel this way about just any girl i happen to see walk by me, i know this because girls walk by me all the time and all i do i wish it was her…i never even thought about searching google for love at first sight until i met her because i wanted to rationalize it some other way like i was just horny or desperate and maybe just get over her i guess…but just like ashley said, the moment i saw her i knew that we were meant to be together.

so to answer your question Bonny, yes, i do believe in love at first sight.

Yes its true some times it happens….Love at first sight..

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I really never believed in it either, until it happened. One hellish ride it was too, actually.

I was dating this girl, and I meet her family. Her younger sister is just starting at me, red in the face. Normally, I would laugh at this kind of thing, but all of the sudden I wanted to talk to her, get to know her, hold her, protect her. All that jazz. Naturally I dismissed it, tried to ignore it. Sometimes I’d find myself googling her name randomly, or looking at a picture she had on facebook. I’d talk to her, and we’d joke. Everything was in the back of my mind, however, shortly after that, all the passion fell out of the relationship I was in with her older sister, which I tried desperately to get back. We broke up, and the next two relationship I’ve had have been basically passionless. Naturally, the girl I fell in love with was being pushed into the back of my mind, always there, but I never considered her as to be a cause of this. The next time I saw her (which was about a year later) all the feelings I had been hiding burst out into my head, really couldn’t be ignored. We started talking, and whenever she’d smile at me, I’d feel like what we had was above everything else in the world, nothing else was as important, and nothing really is. We’re together now, and quite happy.

Yes, I believe in it.

I didn’t finish reading the rest of the commons but I just read one person who disagree on love at first sight and the rest all believed in it. And I found it funny. Most of them has to do with looks, conversational skills..etc all that crap. Funny. Just imagine this. If the person you love right now, is a homeless person who smells. Would you still love her as you see her/him the first time? No right?

I’m a cynic…been one for as long as I can remember. I have no patience for people and I’m out of step with most of society…but one guy still makes my heart flutter.

I was in Naval ROTC for two years…and I went on a month long summer training during that time period. I met other people from all over the country..but there was one guy who I just clicked with. Though I only spent a short time with him, I just knew that I felt something for him…Sadly though, we go to different schools in different states. I am no longer in nrotc, but he still is. Even though it has been a while since I have seen him and the likelihood of us ever seeing each other again is slim, I know I felt something more than ‘like’ or ‘lust’ for him.

Yup, i have had love at first sight and i may be hard to believe but its true.

I believe in love at first sight because when it happens to you your feel like you were just hit with lightening. You can’t breath, think or understand what is happening. What you feel is the urge to be happy and your thoughts are filled with happy emotions! I have been hit with this sensation a few times but like earthquakes there are different levels. Most recently (and the reason why I am at this site b/c I googled it) I was hit. I can’t stop thinking about him! We both feel this way. Only the tale of time will tell but the feeling I feel now is worth the ride!

Yes, I believe in love at first sight. Unfortunately when it happened to me, I was too young to act on it. I had just turned 14 years old (I’m currently 43) and it was my first day at band camp. I looked up and gazed into the eyes of this guy coming up the dock that I was standing on and he pretended to rock it. He had this mischievous grin that spoke to me somehow and I felt something I had never felt and haven’t felt since — like electricity went right through my core. Because I was so attracted to him and so shy, however, I could barely speak to him and this continued throughout our high school years. He asked me out but I was so afraid of my attraction to him that I couldn’t go out with him. He flirted with me and many other girls, but nothing ever became of us. We both got married to other people and each had 4 children. Fast forward 29 years. We found each other again on facebook. He told me that he had thought of me all of these years and he hadn’t thought of a single other girl from high school. I told him that I had thought of him as well and that I never got over him. We both admitted that our marriages to our current partners were a mistake and that we are extremely unhappy in our marriages. Our wedding dates are also in the same month — except the numbers of the dates are transposed — the 13th and 31st. So, we’ve been chatting on facebook and now we’re best friends and he considers us soul mates and he’s the most amazing guy. We want to be together, but to do so would destroy both of our marriages and families. Still, we feel that we will be eventually. It’s as if a force is pulling us together and we can’t imagine being apart. Please, if anyone else feels love at first sight, don’t be afraid to act on it because if we had we might have lived wonderful lives together for the last 29 years. He told me that I was the only girl he could never get close to or kiss because he thought I was too good for him and I felt the same way about him. We were both nervous and afraid of our attraction to one another in high school, but now life is so complicated because we were afraid to act on the magnetic attraction we felt for one another and now we are living without one another. It’s so difficult.

One thing that a lot of you need to understand is loving someone and falling in love (at first sight) are completely two different things.

I think it is something you need to experience before you can know it exists. It has happened to me, so yes i believe. Before it happened, i was a total skeptic. Thought that to love you would have to know eachother truly. But I now believe that there are people out there that have connections, so compatable that they can tell instantly. When i met my husband, i knew that we would be together forever. I felt like he was looking straight into my soul. We went out that first night and talked like old friends. I felt more intimate with him the first night than i did at any point in my previous long term realtionships.

To whoever mentioned the homeless person scenario, wrong (at least for me). The person whom I fell in love with at first sight was homeless…living at friends’ houses, jumping from couch to couch, because he didn’t have enough money to support himself. Over a year later and we still talk almost everyday and are just as crazy about each other when we first met. He may not have money or be successful, and as much as I want to fight it (because my head tells me it’s absolutely ridiculous), I can’t because he’s the one and my heart is his. I never had a chance in hell. I feel like love is the reflection of your soul in another. It’s so pure and wholly consuming it doesn’t really matter what the situation is as long as you don’t let yourself get in the way, freak out, run away, or try to rationalize it.

Wow!
“.. Love is reflection of your soul in another.” Well said !!!!!

”love is the reflection of your soul in another”
Thats beautiful

I agree with the comment that love at first sight and loving someone are different, but I don’t believe they are necessarily mutually exclusive. Also, to whoever mentioned the homeless person scenario, wrong (at least for me). The person whom I fell in love with at first sight was homeless…living at friends’ houses, jumping from couch to couch, because he didn’t have enough money to support himself. Over a year later and we still talk almost everyday and are just as crazy about each other when we first met. He may not have money or be successful, and as much as I want to fight it (because my head tells me it’s absolutely ridiculous), I can’t because he’s the one and my heart is his. I never had a chance in hell. I feel like love is the reflection of your soul in another. It’s so pure and wholly consuming it doesn’t really matter what the situation is as long as you don’t let yourself get in the way, freak out, run away, or try to rationalize it.

I was working one day at my grocery store and a new stock boy walked in. I walked over and said hi and he said hey and i had the most confusing, awesome feeling that I was going to spend of the rest of my life with him. I didn’t even know his name. We became friends after a couple of days. That was August. We were until January.
We’re dating now.

I think falling in love and logical selection are two different things. People who believe in love at first sight, just fall in love. People who dont are logical selectors. I believe in natural love, and that is the only purest form of love. The rest of all kinds are just intended, selfish and manupulated. So yes I believe in love at first sight because when two living beings fall in love and if it is true compatibility it has to happen at the very first moment of interraction. I would say, love at first interraction and not just sight, because when it happened to me my eyes froze into his, I could only smell him and my heart was skipping beats and I had goosebumps. It has to do with mother nature, natural selection, like the pheromones in insects. And yes it is science. It has nothing to do with good looks. People who do not believe in it have not got a chance to experience this biological phenomenon. When they take time to fall in love they are actually analyzing, judging the other person and making a mathematical calculation whether that person is suitable partner or not. That is definitely not love. Animals dont select mates by judging maybe because they dont have that sense of judgement but what they have is pure love, natural selection and hence love at first interraction. By the way I have experience both sides of the story with two wonderful people in my life so I know how it is both ways.

Yes.

I am a skeptic on all fronts, and I was on this for a long time. I have been in a few relationships where I thought I was in love with a person. Even my last relationship I thought I was. But I found myself trying to intellectualize and find reasons why I was in love with her. The problem was, like the others, I wasn’t. Sure, I may have loved them as people, but wasn’t “in love”.

Until I met her. I was actually still in my prior relationship. Although I respected that prior relationship until the end, when I met her, I knew I felt something I had never felt before.

This is the thing: I didn’t idolize her, or even idealize her. I just knew I could accept her no matter what. It was love at first sight, something I scoffed at when I heard about it. But I realize I did that because I never experienced it.

LT, your story is so similar to mine. There’s this man I keep running into. The first couple of times, we only saw each from a distance, but we were looking at each other. The next time after that (this happened in two different cities, I live in a third city, in a different country), he was standing close to where I was. He turned to look at me and when our eyes met, I thought my head was going to explode. I couldn’t believe the feeling. It was like looking in a mirror. There seemed to be some kind of inexplicable connection. I think the intention was to flirt, but the fact is, neither one of us could. We were completely floored. Who knows what will happen next, but I feel something will. I’ve never experienced anything like this in my whole life.

Love at first sight exists and it’s worth believing in. You can’t have it if you don’t believe in it. Swallow your pride, disbelievers. Pride is nonsense. Love is all.

Also like many others on here I did not believe in love at first sight! Until about two years ago. My story is a little different than most. I was very shallow, picky, I had never even considered dating any guy with out a six pack.

The first day at my new job. I had been a single mother for about a year then. I had been there about a week when I was standing in the hall way at the same time a different department went to break. A good friend of mine was in the crowed when I made the comment “Don’t you guys ever work?” just then a woman turned around and gave me a horrible look. As soon as we made eye contact the look disappeared I knew right then I had to have her. Yes I fell for a woman one look is all it took now two years later we are “work” friends but I go out of my way to talk to her everyday. And on the days I don’t she gets upset. I don’t know what to do! But I do believe in love at first sight!

YES! I TRULY BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT IAM NOW ENGAGED TO THE LOVE OF MY LIFE…. ITS CRAZY BECAUSE THE DAY I MET HIM HE SAID IAM GOING TO BE YOUR FUTURE HUSBAND AND I LAUGHED AND SAID ”YEA WHATEVER” AND AFTER THAT WE WOULD TALK FOR HOURS ON THE PHONE AND THEN WE BEGAN DATING … WE HARDLY AGRUE ABOUT ANYTHING AND IT FEELS SO REAL … I LOVE HIM ..

Yes, I do believe in love at first sight. I experienced it myself with my current boyfriend. We have been together for over a year now, and we intend on getting married as soon as we can get some money saved up. I met him a while ago, but as soon as our eyes met, both of us experienced this “out of body” moment.

I have been madly in love with him ever since.

I’ve felt it twice. First one 6 1/2 yrs ago, second time not quite a month ago. First time I walked past a storefront, saw this man working in the store. Had to literally turn around and walk back and look again. Something about him just stopped my breath. I met him a few days later and ended up leaving the guy I was with for him. (The guy i left was a brief, long distance thing..) Was head over heels immediately. It didn’t work as we just couldn’t get on the same page, though for me, all the way through, it was all those cliche things you hear about love. The connection between us couldn’t be denied though and I’m quite sure this wasn’t our first life together, in whatever sort of bond.
He passed away in Feb 08. Until then I spent my time thinking somehow we would find a way to get back together and make it work. After that I just stayed in my stuck, settled, easy life with someone who was a ‘logical’ choice. Then came not even a month ago. My friend posts a song on Facebook and says “you’ve gotta hear this guy!!”. I melted listening to his singing and guitar. I found the site his music is posted on and listened to all of it, more than once. I wrote him asking about him playing out. He ended up finding me on Facebook and adding me. From there we talked and joked completely naturally together while I fell for his heart, his spirit, his humor, and his looks. I found out he was going to a local concert and told him I was “probably” going. I arrived with the boyfriend of five years and immediately knew that was him when i saw him. We all chatted and then went to watch the show. The ENTIRE show I was completely overwhelmed with the fact that I, not wanted to, but SHOULD be sitting with him, comfortable, snuggled, watching the show with him. Not where I was. (This was a Sat.) It was SO strong that I realized by Sun night I had to break off my relationship, whether he felt the same or not. I wrote him this cryptic message and thanked him for being him and for showing me what I needed to do. He wouldn’t let me leave it at that and we met to talk on Mon. By Mon night I had told a friend that he’s The One. By Tue I had ended my relationship. He has many similaritys to my ex, who I will always love, but this works and goes both ways, and of course he is his own person and I love him for him. As my ex was a very spiritual person, and I never would be able to understand my new love completely without that time with my ex, I’m thinking my ex just came along to get me ready. We came close to saying the words tonight, which is only just over a week since we even met, so I ran a search and here I am. Yes, love at first site is real. Very, very real, and as absolutely CRAZY as it looks to the rest of the world, it’s amazing. I smile all day and night thinking about him, breathlessly waiting until we’re together again. I have no doubt that this is it, and that I’m where I’m supposed to be now.
Have I mentioned, I love his smile, his heart, his soul, his intelligence, his humor, his looks, his, his, lol.
And to: “Anon says: I didn’t finish reading the rest of the commons but I just read one person who disagree on love at first sight and the rest all believed in it. And I found it funny. Most of them has to do with looks, conversational skills..etc all that crap. Funny. Just imagine this. If the person you love right now, is a homeless person who smells. Would you still love her as you see her/him the first time? No right?”….
My love is nowhere near in the position I thought I would date. He is rebuilding his life and has close to nothing right now. Guess what, when you feel this, that DOESN’T MATTER. You just know that this moment in time won’t last forever and all will work out.

Thank God for this site…maybe I am not crazy????
I was haunted by his face from the first glance of his photo on a dating Web site, and our two weeks worth of e-mails were light-hearted but non-stop. When I finally waited for him to arrive for our first face-to-face meeting I was shaking– atypically nervous–and sweating…I had NO IDEA why I would be reacting like this…When I opened the door and saw his face for the first time I was overwhelmed and had to go sit down under a fan…I was over-heated and nervous-felt like I could not breathe. I’d met so many men before this and had tons of dates, and this never happened to me before…I had no explanation for it. I couldn’t keep my eyes or hands off of him from the absolute get-go. It made me happy watching him be display joy at eating a particulary good pork-chop. INSANE. We had 3 wonderful dates and I was on cloud 9. Then he went back to his girlfriend who had pushed him out of her life…she is dying from cancer–she changed her mind. I am not angry or hurt…I understand. He told me of the situation prior to our dates. But I think of him every single day. I feel I love him, and since I am 49 years old, intelligent and reasonably stable, I feel this is crazy. But I do not have any desire to date anyone else. I don’t know what to think of this. That is why I, like you other people, Googled “love at first site.” I just needed to write this down. I am praying to God for whatever is best for all involved to happen. God knows this; I do not. But right now all I feel is love for him even though he is with the other person. We are in touch but keeping it occassional and light. I would not disrespect his current relationship and situation.

I have never felt like this before….I was on vacation and on my last day there I was at a bar and I had a few drinks so my memory was kind of blurry….. I was with my friends and we walked into the pub went straight for the bar grabbed drinks and somehow just made it to this table….. My friend started talking to a girl so I politely was making conversation with another girl at the table and everything she was saying we just clicked and just felt like wow its like this was the girl I’ve imagined about looks aside her whole persona, laid back attitude, profession, I can’t even describe it I was even telling her how cool she was….. and she eventually left with her friends and I left. We live in the same country (not going to say where or where we were) but we live very far away from each other and i got her number and texted her the next day but we never met up and we both went back home and since then a week later I can’t stop thinking about her just something about her that is sticking in my head…. and I can meet girls very easily and I have never felt like this in my life I feel almost attached some how to her even though we only spent an hour together I feel lost………..

when u experience love at first sight u dont even see it comin u might not even kno the person but the first time ur eyes meet theres u get such a strong unbelievable feeling and sparks are flying everywhere u dont even kno the person never even talked to them but u feel like u already kno them n u fall in love that very same moment your eyes meet

I did not know what ‘Love at first sight was” until it happened to me. I did not even know it existed. Here goes my story, and I hope my experience help other people do the opposite of what I did.
I’m 32 years old, lesbian, and met my wife when I was 29. She is a wonderful woman, we haven been thu a lot, and when I married her there was no doubt in my mind she was the person I was going to be married the rest of my life because she has been the most amazing person I have ever met. I thought I was in love, and I thought I had everything with her. On the other hand, I consider myself to be very shy, introverted, hardly talk to other people or initiate conversation.
I was at work ( front desk hotel agent) and met this woman ( who happens to be on vacation). She stayed at the hotel for two weeks but i did not notice her at the beginning because we had a lot of guest and I’m always very busy. She started approaching me for information ( like other guests do), but something about her was different.. All of the sudden, crazy stuff, I was thinking about her all the time. My eyes started looking for her and waiting for her to come down to the lobby, having fantasies about her and feeling that strange sensation in the stomach. In that short period of time ( less than two weeks and her, being an absolut stranger), I started missing her like crazy and thinking of her, and having feelings for her. When it’s time for her to check out, she leaves me her email address and tells me to keep in touch. ( She lives in a different country). Two days later I write her with the excuse to tell her that I hope she had a great time at the hotel and hopefully she will be well rested to go back to work. She knew I was married because I told her when she was at the hotel. After two weeks of emailing each other ( nothing romantic ), I wrote her that ” I needed to stop writing her because even thought as I know this will sound crazy to you, given the fact that we’re complete strangers, I’m crazy about you and worst, I believe I’m falling in love with you.” I go out because i did not wanted to read her reply.. A week later, I read the email she writes me the same day I told her I was crazy about her and she told me that she felt the same way about me but she did not want to say anything because she wanted to get me to know better. At that point I just freak out ( reminds me of somebody that wrote something here and said she reconnected with this person in facebook after 26 years) and told my wife I had met somebody else and was falling in love for this person. Well, to make the long story short ,PEOPLE do not do what I did. I DID NOT LIVE MY LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT STORY. My wife was driving crazy everyday she said how i dare, after I said the vows to her just change like that. She said she was very disapointed that I made I commitment and that I was not sticking to it. I told my wife that I just love her the same way, that my love was very strong for her but that there were some things missing that I did not know were missing and that’s why I guess I connected with this woman. My wife told me she was my wife and that she deserved a chance to make us work….. Well, ffter almost 3 monnth of back and forth with my wife and could not break the vows I did to her, knowing that I was in love with this other woman and needed to stick to the commitment to see if this work. It has been almost a years and a half since I met this woman and obviusly I ruined it….. I think I did what was ‘right’ but I regret I should have follow my heart and let somebody else listen to my regrets. My advice for you is you need to live this love because Love at first sight is wonderful You feel young, you feel alive. This woman made me feel so wonderful. I hope I get to live this again!!

Yes, this has happened to me over and over again…love at first sight. The unfortunate part is that I’m the only one who is on the “love wavelength.” So it does help when you get to know him a bit and realize he’s just a jerk, same as all the others.

I believe we will all experience love at first sight. And many of us more than once. But will we act upon it, or chicken out? I for one, was in such a stressful situation, and confused at the time. It was freshman year in college, and it was stressful. I was pre-occupied with being able to stay afloat, awake, sane… Literally a day or two Freshman year, in the first class of the day, I noticed my one true love was answering a question of the professor, I sat right next to her, and there was that burst of “magic” I’ll call it so as to avoid a long comment. She never looked at me until days later, but I knew from the first moment she was the one! Was she gorgeous – NO. Scale of 1-10, probably a 6. I can only describe it as magic. What was so beautiful about her – everything!!! She was my 10, and my friends even wondered what it was about her, said she was cute and all, but asked me why was she the love of my life?? I couldn’t explain. Well, when she finally made eye contact with me, she was instantly… taken aback, and unfortunately it turned into something kinda tense, almost awkward. I think it overwhelmed her, and I was not quite able to come out of my shell to break her out of her pre-conceptions of love. We both knew it!!!! What a shame!!! I didn’t see her for a while after that first quarter, but whenever we saw each other, we would lock eyes. And she would give me that look of – when are you gonna do something? Unfortunately, I didn’t see her again often over the next year. But my senior year something happened (be ready for this story to be a total downer – tragedy supreme). I was about to go for it, at last, spontaneously. We had both been in a couple relationships in the meantime, but were single at the time. And what happens, a really hot girl starts hitting on me and I had a choice, and I didn’t follow my “love” instinct. I dated this other hot girl for several months. The final week of college, I’m sitting in the auditorium with my buddies, and they say, hey man, there she is (love of my life) and I look at her, and we literally locked eyes for 10 seconds!! She was 20 feet away, but there was no mistake. My buddies told me it was fate……………… I chickened out because of my own insecurities and lack of balls. Sure I was young, but not that young. Don’t ever, ever, ever hesitate when you see the one people. I am 38 now. Sad. You will meet the one, let your heart lead.

I think I came here just to share my experience of that once in a lifetime love at first sight feeling, eventhough I have never been in a relationship with him. I will try to make it short.

We were 13 years old when our paths crossed. I liked many boys at that age, I lived at the beach so it was natural, and people found me oddly attractive, eventhough I never fully understood that, I cannot see that attractiveness they talk about in the mirror. In any case, when I saw HIM he literally took my breath away and eventhough I have had my true puppy love in high school, this guy is still to date the only one that has had that effect on me. he is a Scorpio male so yes, it was his eyes and yes it was his magnetism that attracted me. But mostly I was attracted to something beyond those electric blue eyes. he stared at me right back and it wasn’t long until we we took some long walks on the beach for 2 consecutive days and then on third day I decided I wanted to kiss him and I guess because he was just a 13-year-old boy with no relationship experience, he just nervously laughed everytime I came close to him. But there was no question that he liked me too, it was obvious. So I overreacted and was insulted so on third day I said to him I couldn’t see him anymore. He was sad but he didn’t ask any questions. Usually men do not question my decisions, I have a curse of looking too serious and almost angry agressive in my determination so noone questions my decisions.

Then 2 years after that I was going home for high school and I saw him outside his building with his friends, our eyes locked and I got hit again by the magnetic energy he oozed with. Later that day I said to my best friend who hanged around that area to say Hello to him from me. She said that when she said that, he answered “I wish she really did…”. I was confused thinking about that episode from before and thinking that he actually didn’t like me, so I thought why would he say this? But I didn’t go further into it because of a terrible domestic problems I was going through so he got shoved somewhere back in my mind.

So now when I am 30, one day my best friend from high school sent me a message on Facebook, saying she got this crazy SMS from a neighbour of hers who works in Venezuela where he almost begged her to say Hello to me from that Scorpio of mine and to send him an SMS back as soon as she gets some news from me. I was in a perfect position to get flustered by a memory of him again, single and wiser than before, ready for The One. So I said to say Hi back and I thought that would be it. But then 3 days later my Scorpio created a Facebook account and sent me a private message saying: “So, was it 16 years ago?”. I immediately went to his profile, saw the pictures, he is exactly the same as when I first saw him, except he is a true man now. Imagine the impact that had on me. But I also realized that he listed himself as in a relationship. Bummer:(. So I decided to pretend we are like friends now so I joked on one of his pictures; he is a professional diver and I commented the pic by saying if he would be so kind to dive out a shell with a pearl for me. He immediately sent me a private emssage saying “So you want a shell with a pearl, ha?” We joked then back an forth, it was borderline on flirting if not flirting itself. Then I asked him why did he contact me after so many years, he said it was just to see how I was doing and just as a friend. So yeah, bummer:(…What I have learned by now from my experience is that a girl should trust what a guy says, guys are really that simple in expressing themselves.

But I am still surprised that he remembers me after soooooo many years and we knew eachother only for 3 measly days, I guess I would be probably safe to say that I left the same impact on him as he did on me? It is so hard to shake him off because I am attracted to him beyond his eyes (which are SICK by the way, not even Leo DiCaprio has eyes like him, hehe;)))) and his magnetism, it is the idea that because I have the same intensity, we would match eachother perfectly.

I think about him constantly and we are still keeping contact, he even recently asked me how long am I staying in our hometown.

Not sure what will happen, we do live in different countries now so possibilities for a relationship is probably not so huge:(…But me wants him, oh so badly…;)

I was a believer until very recently. I met this man and omg he was awesome. Romantic eyes, sexy voice and very tall. Qualifications that I find appealing along with a personality that was or needed some grooming. Anyway, I was very honest about how I felt about this man. All he could tell me was he wasn’t a believer in love at first sight and didn’t understand how a woman could believe in it. Just today he asked how could I say I loved him and that shot me through the heart. I guess women do wear our hearts on our sleeves. What happened to me made me wonder if it truly exist. From now on honesty takes a back seat and continued hiding my feelings moves to the fore front

I never believed in love at first sight until about a two months ago, i met this guy and we were friends but We had this connection that just keep bringing us together some way.We decided to date and oh my there are no words to describe how intense, incredible and just flat out ahmazing everything feels. I feel i met the one for me in the time frame of 2 months. He’s everything to me and i him. He told me he was falling in love with me two days after we started dating and i felt/feel the same way.
I guess you have to be ready for anything. This feeling is one you want to share with the world but there are no words for it. I now believe in love at first sight and i revel in it. i hope everyone fels this at some point in there life.

I never believed in love at first sight. I knew there was such a thing as chemistry and physical attraction, but I could not understand the concept of loving a complete stranger at first sight – until it happened to me.

I have to say it was instant. We took one look at each other and that was it for me. I knew I wanted to be with him but what was more interesting is I was certain that I already knew him.

That’s when I realized that I had met someone significant from a past life. So we started dating. It lasted three weeks until I realized that we didn’t want the same things. Go figure…timing.

So I ended it. I was fallling in love, well already in love with a man who was not in the same place I was. Been there before (not love at first sight) but it’s a painful place to be.

Five months later I still cannot stop thinking about him. He won’t talk to me at all so I’ve decided to let go. But I know I did the right thing because if it were love at first sight for him, he would try to work it out.

Funny how these things work. All I can say is that I am grateful for the experience and I wish him well. Sometimes maybe the love at first sight is one sided.

I’ve been married for 15 years, he’s been married for 20 yrs. Not to each other. I looked across the room, saw him, and felt that for the first time ever, there was someone closer to me than my husband. I just knew that with him was where I belonged. I was being called home. It wasn’t about power or money or statue. Then he came over, we locked eyes and I thought: I am going to marry him. My very next thought was that I would never be happy again. It’s been 2 years and so far, it’s proven true. I will never leave my husband, but I think of him constantly and probably will for a long time. This is a very difficult situation.

No I believe in lust at first sight! Love is such a strong word. And if you are going to use it, make sure you know what it means. Cause it hurts to hear and know that you don’t mean it.

No I don’t belive in love at first sight. Yes its true there are some males that I find attractive at first sight, but to love someone you have to know them. Lets say that you sit next to a very attractive male (or female) in class but you hardly even know his/her name. That isnt love, just attraction. I have actually met people who mistake passion and lust for love. Lust and love hardly keep the same company, and even then not for long. My advice. Get to know them. Maybe they are the love of your life or maybe they turn out to be the worst people you have ever met. The saying “Don’t judge a book by its cover” has some truth here.

lust….yes! but love at first sight?……no. I’m sorry but there is just no way you can love someone by glancing at them. i need the connection to a person to love. I agree. Love is too much of a strong word.

About a year ago I met I man whom I got attracted to instantly. We live in different countries and he was in my country on a short assignment. At the time I was 50 and falling in love was the last thing on my mind. I hadn’t been in a serious position for about 7 years. He’d brought a parcel for me from a friend. I talked to him on the phone 3 times without developing any interest. When I finally met him, I was impatiently waiting at the hotel reception when I heard someone ask me in quiet whether my name was Carla. I looked up and saw a very attractive man and I swooned. I was immediately attracted to him and found it difficult to chat. He invited me to the country he lives, urging me to go soon and that he would show me around. I told him I would go but haven’t been able to go up to now. Unfortunately, he’s never communicated since then. I still long for him and wish we could get together. Any suggestions about what I should do. At 51 I have very little confidence in myself. He’s a few years younger than me.

For all these people googling was just happened to them.. and trying to find some sort of an explanation or confirmation, like I am right now. Well. I never believed in it either. And I still don’t know if one should call it love.. Too much of a cynic, I guess… But IT happened to me 3 weeks ago, and it was a mind blowing, spiritual, terrifying, and overwhelming experience. Caught me of guard, was not searching for it and I have not acted upon it -and will probably not any time soon. Was not lust, although he is ridiculously handsome, but drowned in his eyes, almost fainted and just felt that my soul was lifted from my body, that I looked into a mirror, and saw his soul reflected in mine. As if I had known him for 200 years. Don’t ask me why but I just know that he will play some part in my life in the future. It changed my outlook on love, life and myself. An epiphany that left me decided that I need to change some things … now! And if this is all I shall gain from it, I am a better person for it and eternally grateful. It sounds like a cliche, but it was like he was sent by some invisible force. And I honestly believe it will never happen to me again.

It’s me again. I want to believe in love at first sight so much!!! Those first few encounters can almost solidify it. But as a cynic, we usually lose that lust feeling fairly quickly. I had two girlfriends in the past that I had an instant attraction for, and our love life was a perfect 10, literally for a year. I never lost the butterfly feeling every time I was with each girl. One was when I was 20, the other when I was 23. The relationships went sour, but the physical attraction didn’t. I was a moron. I broke up with the first girl 8 times, because she would never confide in me, or express her true self. I came to find out that she was just immature at the time, and afraid maybe that I wouldn’t love her true self. Heck, I was immature too. And the next girl, even more physical attraction – but how do you differentiate between an attraction level of 10 and another 10? Nuances I suppose. Either way, I think my body gave out because of the constant intensity of lust and hormones that went on and on for so long. With the second girl, I think her IQ was like 150, and she was intimidating and a bit too flirtatious for my taste. She ended that relationship – said she didn’t like dating jealous guys. But to this day, I still compare all relationships to these girls. I’ve not found a woman who sparks my attraction nearly as much. Maybe it’s because I’m older? Am I doomed never to feel such passion ever again? If so, then “Away with you bitter and evil hope of true love.” I’ll just continue pursuing a woman who is a perfect soul-mate without the passion!!!??? Bahh Humbug. Need help.

I believe in it it has been about 5 years and I still can not shake the feeling for this one particular girl, even thought i am in love with my current girlfriend. It feels too real and too vivid even in my thoughts of her. It hurts way more then its suppose to even when I barely knew her.

yes I do believe in it
when I first met my beloved 3 years ago I felt something strange inside me and I’ve loved her since that time.
although we rarely meet but my love grows day after day,and I believe she’s the one.I say to myself that she’s my everything,happiness,peace,live,everything.
I’m eager to kiss his hand as I’m her man.

I met a woman in the workplace, and she stood out to me. I remember the first time that I saw her. The memory of that moment is something that burned into my mind like a still photograph.

She changed my life, because I grew to admire her ideals and values. We had conversations from time to time, and those conversations challenged and inspired me.

At a point, I realized that I loved her; and it wasn’t just a matter of infatuation. It was something completely different. I wanted to devote my life to her unconditionally.

After a year or so we got different jobs, and I told myself that I had to let my feelings for her go. I didn’t think that any more could come of it, and assumed that I would never see her again. I considered that matter closed for a long time.

Nevertheless, I thought of her every day for three years; and the mere memory of her somehow inspired me to be a better person. Then, rather unexpectedly, we made contact with each other again after all that time.

I don’t know if “love at first sight” is quite the right way to describe it, but I do know that there is some kind of love that goes beyond the usual dating metrics, transcends the typical definition of love, and touches the soul in a purer, more genuine way.

That kind of love endures the test of time, and like the pyramids, is wondrous.

love at the first sight has been and will always be there no matter what our societies or cultures may dictate.

In my highschool time I was more than a womanizer! I could do anything to draw attention to the woman I want. It was all about being recognized as the best in that school. Until one day in unexpected situation while a was visiting a friend. It was one evening at a Coppellia” Coppelia” is a place for ice cream in latin. I saw a girl across the line and my heart beat raises so quickly that I had to leave the line. I ignored the signal at the first because the girl my eyes met with was not one of the type of girl that I would normally approach. then I sat there for few minutes and there is the girl again I felt like my heart was coming out from my mouse from the way it was beating. I could not resist the girl as she approached me and extended her hand I can not remember what did I do. The only thing I can recall was like my blood boiling and I felt a blackout for some seconds by the time I opened my eyes she was holding my hands and gazing at my eyes. I technically tried to resist whatever I was feeling at the moment being the guy I thought I was; I could not believe this was happening to me. with all beautifull girls I have been with no one could match the feeling of happiness that girl brought to my life until I left her.

I eventually managed to escaped but I could not hide from what I felt when I met her. I had three kids with a chosen woman, but very unhappy.

In conclusion, love at the first sight it is not about your made up list of expectations but the natural instinct or energy that live within you.

Personally I would have said no i dont believe,
But recently I met a wonderful guy and something inside off me told me he is the one
I’ve had previous relationships so can be quite sceptical, But even though I have only just got to know him I can honestly say it was love at first sight, He ,himself told me this morning that he has fallen for me,
Theres just something more about the way the holds me and looks at me. So Yes I do believe in love at first sight..

I believe in love at first sight due to my own experience with it. i saw this doctor when i was doing work experience at a local hospital. i loved him the minute i saw him. I never spoke to him while i was working there, and when i left it teared me apart. I kept loving him still. I saw him months after and it was the same feeling. it so happened that i got sick and was hospitalized and destiny had its plan cuz he was the doctor that treated me. one day he came to give me an injection and i kinda cried cuz it hurt. he rubbed my hand and apologized and he had this look in his eyes and i knew he felt the same way i felt. i was discharged and i still didnt let him know how i felt. he found out where i worked and came to look for me one day. he said it was a medical visit and he was talking to me about my health but i knew deep dwn that wasnt the reason for his visit. anyway before he left he gave me his number and told me to call if i wasnt feeling well. i had the number for weeks and one day i finally texted him and now we r together, so yes!!! i believe in love at first sight

Yes, it is real. I am young but I have expirenced it.. I know it. Well first lets start out with ‘guy one’. I met him in Kindergarten and we have been best friends since. But I always liked him more then a friend… I loved him. I think he felt the same. I dreamed about him every single night. January 19 2011 was the day ‘guy two’ came into my life. He is a grade younger then me but he is very smart so he moved into my Pre-Algebra class. The teacher called on me to answer a question, and I did. ‘Guy two’ turned around to see who I was and.. BAM! Our eyes met, and I fell in love. I didnt even know his name, or anything about him at that. But yet I was willing to throw myself infront of a bus for him. Every time I see him my heart skips a beat, my face gets red, and I stop breathing when I look into his eyes. I stopped that whole love thing with ‘guy one’ and now the only guy I see, or think about is ‘guy two’. I imagine him with me when he is not and I cant get that amazing smile out of my mind. Yes it was love at first sight, and I wont let anyone prove me wrong. Anyways that night I stopped dreaming about ‘guy one’ I started dreaming about ‘guy two’. I now know ‘guy two’ a little better. His name, what makes him laugh, or smile, even blush. I also know he is a complete dork! But I love him anyways. I cant explane this feeling, but lets just say if he died now I would be next. My heart hurts when I am not with him. I never felt this before. It is love and I need to tell him!

Teen In Love <3

It is 100% real and it was mutual!

In fall of 2006, this happened to me. I was married and so was she (I found out later). I was sitting in my SUV in a bank parking lot and I was on the phone. I turned and saw a woman sitting in her white SUV next to me.

We both immediately locked eyes and recognized each other from some other time and place. It was like we both looked at each other, smiled and said, “Hey, love. There you are! I have been waiting for you all of my life? Where have you been?”

Time froze, we smiled and were filled with joy and happiness. I felt the warmth, joy and love from heaven shining down on us. I recognize her from dreams that I have had since I was a child. The experience really confirmed my belief in God and the after life. I was never a super religious person until that happened. It changed my life forever.

Four or so years later, I still think of her and think about what could have been. I will always love her and she will always love me. We know that. I know that a life together would have been amazing, happy and full of love. As life is supposed to be.

I ended up divorcing shortly there after. I saw her the other day for the first time in 4 years and she is still with her husband. I respect that very much and would never do anything to interfere with their marriage.

I am glad to have experienced unconditional love at least this one time in my life.

All is good M!

But I miss ya a lot. Wish we could have talked once to understand this better but I understand what would come of that.

Miss ya, love you always M
-jg

Well yeah, i believe in love at first sight, its a strong feeling, i think you dodge it a few times when you keep seeing the person, because you know how these things are, we wanna fight it and find it hard to believe but once you get together its such a warm feeling, nonetheless a relationship is a relationship, there still has to be some level of input everyday from both parties if you wanna explore newer and deeper levels of love, and believe I am not talkig about sex. Even after a year its like your seeing him for the first time everyday, when you smile your heart smiles with you and you still get butterflies in your tummy…

I never believed in this sort of stuff untill it happened to me, much like the previous comments.

This previous weekend I took a trip with my friends to Disneyland, after half a day of fun on rides and such, we decided to take our fun over to disneyland from California Adventure. We immediatly headed over towards the indiana jones ride, which all of my friends love, but I honestly can’t stand.

The line had a 75 minute wait time, and I wasn’t thrilled, as My ipod died hours prior. Afte rabout 50 minutes of waiting, I turned and caught Glance with with this girl three rows away from me. The second our eyes met, I felt something I’d never felt before. I got Cold chills, goosebumps, and According to my friends, i was Completely void of skin color. Judging by the way this girl looked, she was experiancing something odd as well. After about 2 minutes of just staring at eachother, our part of the line moved inside the ride’s building. we continued down towards the ride, and I constantly looked back to find her again. Right as I got onto the Ride, and the buckles locked in, I spotted her. once again we locked eyes, my ride started moving forward, we both smiled intensely.

I got of the ride, and walked to the entrance with my buddies, I started walking with them to another part of the park, then came to the conclusion that I should have waited for her. I told my buddies I needed to do something, and dead sprinted through the hundreds of people back towards the ride. As I got there, I saw her turning a corner towards another part of the park, I ran after her, but after searching couldn’t find her. I called my friends, and told them I’d meet them at the room later that night. I spent the rest of the night (7pm-11:30pm) searching through the park for this girl, all to no success.

I’ve since been in an extremely odd mood, like a piece of me is missing. Chances are I will never see this girl again, I don’t know her name, or were she’s from, but strangely, I love her…the one… the one that got away.

I believe in love at first sight…. It’s happened to me. I was somewhere and I just saw this guy and I took one look at him and it was like no1 else was around. Like nothing else mattered every where I go I always think about him. And I see him from time to time but we have never spoken. It’s been 2 years since I experienced this and i know it’s love at first sight because if it wasn’t I would have already just 4got about himon toabout him but I just can’t……

I believe also in love at first sight..because i experience that..now she is my wife..

no…crush at first sight maybe..:))

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I think what everyone is describing is meeting a person who you know will affect your life profoundly. Ive never had this feeling with a guy before, but I have had it a couple of time meeting friends. I can’t say that I have kept in touch with all of these friends, but they have made me who I am today. Maybe this feeling is not love at first sight, but something inside of us recognizing an important person who will take us down an important path.

This is all VERY interesting! A few months ago I conduced an online survey about this very topic! Soulmates and Love at first sight (for a graduate school course). It was only quantitative and my results were very interesting about who does and who does not believe. I have since created a SECOND survey including qualitative questions to try to understand more about why people believe and do not believe. I have finished most of my analyses but if any of you are interested in sharing your stories please take my survey!

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I know that love at first sight exists; it happened to me the summer of 1975. I was 17. I fell in love with a girl I had never met before. I saw her in the line next to mine on our way to a concession stand at a Drive-In Theater. I tried talking to her but she wouldn’t give me the time of day. I “chased” her until she allowed me one date. We were boyfriend/girlfriend for a year before she broke up with me. We dated others but eventually she came back to me. We married in 1977 and we will celebrate our 35th anniversary in March of 2012. It was not love at first sight for her but once she fell in love with me she never let go. I’ve never loved anyone like I have my wife. I know what it is to love my family and my friends but the love I have for my wife is not of this world. I cannot duplicate, replicate, nor simulate how I feel for her with anyone else. My wife and I have talked about our relationship and we are amazed that we can be so right for each other after all these years; we have our theories about how this can be and we have theories about what soulmates are but above all, we just believe that we both listened to our hearts and followed the signs when we were supposed to . . .

Love at first sight appears to have more to do with precognition — a premonition of a romance to come. Case in point: I first spotted this girl “among a group of people” from about “200 yards away” and felt something was up regarding her. I never saw her face properly. I didn’t have lusty feelings for her (at the time, but much later did) — this rules out attraction theories. There was no sign of her noticing me. I had no belief in premonitions at the time. Later, due to ridiculously super-unlikely events, we met and got together, and had mutual feelings for each other from the beginning. I don’t know about actual “love at first site,” however, I now I believe that “love at first sight” is more of a sense of things to come and a drive to get to know the person.

Love at first sight is as real as it gets. For instance I work part time at local candy store….in walked a gentlemen and I never wanted him out of sight ever again. Now here I am with a beautiful family I never thoght id have.

When I was younger I never believe in love at first site, I always thought it could never be true. That was until I meat my boyfriend now. A friend got us together and the second I laid my eyes on him my heart was his. Some may say it is just the “fu-fu stage” but one knows when they are in love. He is in the military, Ive always wanted a military man until now. He could leave any second of the day and that is the part that scares me the most.

When I was younger I never believe in love at first site. As I got older I thought it was just bull for someone to get married or they were just so in love with the feeling of love, that they just said it. I believed all of this until now, until I meat my boyfriend. A friend introduced us, and the moment i laid my eyes on him my heart was his. Now of days I cannot stop smiling or thinking about him. Some may say this is the “fu-fu stage” in our relationship, but one knows when they are in love and I could not be anymore head-of-heels in love with him.

In HS I met a love that should of lasted forever. My parents swore he was no good. So,;

I saw my first husband across from the bar. Love, desperate is what I felt. Two children and 15 years the marriage ended. I was honest I knew I just wanted kids with him. Handsome, I wanted to settle down.

Marriage number two ended with the man robbing me blind. I fell in love With someone I didn’t know, and was lost himself.

Emotionally drained convinced god only knows what’s on the agenda. Months later;

I’m taking my daughter to the train station to dropp her off. As we are waiting to load train. There is of course a man standing there with his children. I ended up starring at his perfect body, then seen his face. I was in love. Felt like I was in a fog.

My daughter and I were moved from this lovely view down to another part of the train. I seen my daughter off and knew I had to go back towards that dream. I kept telling myself don’t trip.
I got down to my car, got in my car and felt like a child in love.

I was with my 18 year old daughter. I told my daughter. As I was telling my daughter; my daughter says; ” you mean him!!!!” he made his way looking for me over the rail. It was like a movie. I felt like my prince was looking for me. Silly as it may seem.

He eventually made his way down to me and we both could not see straight, nor talk. We fumbled to exchange business cards.

This person is in the military. We have emailed a few times. He warned me we wouldn’t get to meet again for 5 months.

Hopelessly in love.

I NEVER believed in it until it happened to me. I’m old enough not to be naive. WHOA.

I am searching this topic as most seem to be here because we have experienced love at first sight and wonder – is this real. Found a guy on a dating site – first look at his profile – my heart skipped a beat. He is not my usual type so I felt it and wondered. We communicated and I found out he is 2 hours away – I stopped and backed away. Two weeks later I was talking to him again but choked before the meet. Again – two weeks later -I was back chatting with him. We have loads in common – beyond the normal and I just could not let go of him. We met a few days ago and it has been heaven for both of us. It was instant connection once we were able to physically meet and be in each other’s presence. I cannot decribe the moment we saw each other on my front porch – it is burned in my memory how he looked at me and how it felt. It is odd too because he is not normaly the type of guy I go for – but it is perfect. I know we want to say “i love you” to each other but hold back because logically you wonder – how could this be love so quick, so easily and felt so deeply and calmly. How awesome – I feel like the luckiest girl alive!