Is love at first sight really true?

I certainly believe that it can happen. I don’t believe it happens often, but I’m sure it exists.

Yes. But it is rare.

No. You can’t love someone you don’t know. You can, however, be instantly attracted to someone and mistake that infatuation for love, and then after you’ve gotten to know them, fall in love with them, so that it seems like you feel in love at first sight.

Yes, rare, more like lust at first sight! lol

Sometimes lust can morph into something more real, usually after the dopamine wears off the romance fizzles if it’s mostly lust induced.

The brain knows how to play out ‘meet, mate, procreate!’ hahahahaha

Yes. You can even love someone before you see them or know much about them at all. Consider an unborn baby.

Until we all start walking around with shirts that describe ourselves completely, I’m going to go with “no”.

Lust at first sight, maybe.

There most certainly are couples who would argue that the moment they laid their eyes on each other that they were made for each other and foresaw a future together. They went on a few dates, a few dates turned into a relationship and a relationship turned into a commitment.

So, simple as that. Not to be confused with the hyper-lust situations where a couple dates, professes their pseudo-substantive love for one another, then breaks it off in a week or two.

I won’t say it can’t, but in my case whatever I thought was love at first sight can pretty much always be translated to OMG HAWT.

I like @papayalily‘s answer. Attraction, yes. Love, probably not.

If it is, then blind people are unloving.

It happened with me 22 years ago. I saw him. BAM. Done. Now Happily married.

Does he know about this?

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies (you mean me?) LOL Yep.

Just checking

@RealEyesRealizeRealLies MMkay ;)

I have not experienced this yet…lust yes…love no

It’s never worked that way for me….except with pies ;)

Yes. My first love was at first sight. Still going strong 35 years after we broke up.

I believe in interest at first sight. I know the second I set eyes on the one who I will get along with and it has been 100% for me.

You can sure fall for someone at first sight. Maybe you can fall in love at first sight. But there isn’t true love at first sight.

To answer the question meaningfully, you first have to have a meaning you like for the expression that a love is true or not.

The way you worded the question, also makes it seem like there would be one answer for all cases.

It is entirely possible to see someone and feel love for them and keep feeling love for them until death, for example. And it’s also possible to have such an experience and then later not love them. And people can make up all sorts of meanings about either events. Et cetera.

I think that just means you really got your motor running when you first saw a person.
Strippers will tell you love at first sight is bunk because of how many times they’ve heard it and who said it.

I kind of think it is.

@ModernEpicurian @holden why is it rare?

An initial mutual attraction can grow into a life long love it happened to me three times.

I think people mistaken “love at first sight” for infatuation.
If love at first sight exists, then so does “love at first listen, feel and smell”

Not sure, I met my current gf on an internet dating site and started to fall in love with her from the first email. Now this isn’t the first time I’ve fallen in love, I’m 36 and I know what it feels like, so I’m not over simplifying. We are still together a (very small) 10 months later.

So maybe sight is possible but that sounds quite superficial, but first contact definately seems, to me, to be possible.

I’ve never experienced love at 1st sight…like @simplicity I also met my partner on a dating site so although I thought his initial photo was pleasing on the eye we established a mental connection prior to meeting through email.

On our 1st meeting it wasn’t love at 1st sight either…he definitely grew on me through mental communication and also through the physical sense lol :)