People often say "It was love at first sight!" but was it really? I don't believe people can fall in love by just looking at someone. It takes time to fall in love, if you don't even know the person how can you truly know if you're in love? I believe in lust at first sight, but this physical attraction is completely opposite from love. Lust consists of physical longing for someone, yet love includes emotional and mental companionship that can't be limited to a physical relationship.
Yet there seems to be a psychological explanation for love at first sight. The explanation is that people fall in love at first sight with those that have something they lack and unconsciously desire. The article speaks of how the personality adds to this "love", but then how is it love at first sight if the personality is being uncovered? Maybe it's just a person's self persuasion that makes them believe they fell in love at first sight, or maybe the psychological reasoning is somehow an excuse for love, and not truly love. I don't mean to kill anyone's fantasies of love, I'm a dreamer myself, but can one really look into a stranger's eyes and fall instantly in love?
Below is the link to the article that takes a psychological approach to love at first sight.
http://ww.2knowmyself.com/psychology_of_falling_in_love/Does_loves_at_first_sight_really_exist
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I'm always interested in this also. I feel as though we must have a physical attraction first which then opens our eyes to the person. Falling in love takes time, we must know the person, love the person & know what we are getting ourselves into. I never believed in love at first sight because when looking at someone you can't see what they are all about. You must learn about the person.
ReplyDeleteI think love at first sight is more of a saying, sort of like a figure of speech for when you are speaking of someone you truly love. I do not think you can fall in love just by looking at someone. You can not know who you are going to spend the rest of your life with by one glance. It takes more than that. You need to get to know the person by who they really are, not just by their looks. Physical attraction and love are two completly different things.
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