Not possible. I don't think .
I belive you can be infatuated. But not in love.

Love is something that grows, not a bullet that shoots you in the heart, otherwise you'd be dead.

Maybe it wasn't love at first sight, but the first time I saw my fiancee I knew he was the one.

Yes. I didn't believe it until it happened to me.

Married for 3 and a half years after we both fell in love at first sight!

I feel like this was already a poll not too long ago... eh maybe that's just me. Anywho, I think it could happen but I'm not a fan about jumping to conclusions lol.

I'm with ann418 - it might not have been love, but the very first time my fiance and I met, our eyes locked and I just knew that he was someone special. It took us 2 years to finally get together, but I just know it was meant to be (and he feels the same way).

I don't think it was love at first sight when I met my fiance. But it was definitely something special, a your finally here I've been waiting for you. Lol.

Same as a few people above, we knew the moment our eyes met. I didn't believe it until then, but it can definitely happen- and in our case at an inopportune time! But, it's all worked out well and that moment is one I'll never forget.

Obviously people can be attracted at first sight and if it turns out to be the right person then I guess I can see how people believe its love at first sight but love comes from knowing someone and you can't know them at first sight.

No, because I fall in love with minds and not looks... I know not everyone is like that though...

What psterling said! I wonder how many times people have looked someone in the eye and thought they felt a connection, only to have nothing happen? Probably a lot, but of course we only hear about the times it DOES work out! You might feel lust at first sight, but until you get to know someone, how can you really love them? I think it's a silly idea.

It was more like love at first conversation for me! Been together six years now.

Nope.

If you get those warm fuzzies (or mild indigestion) when you first see someone, and it *just so happens* that they're really awesome, after you get to know them a bit better - it's coincidence.

[sorry, i'm a bit of a cynic, especially about romance.]

margokhal -- I agree completely!

I can honestly say that up until six months ago, I thought the whole "love at first sight" saying was completely ridiculous, until Lars. Lars and I have been dating for the past six months and since then we have been inseparable. I was referred to him through a mutual connection, he was building a house and he needed an interior designer. I showed up to our first appointment having no idea that I would be meeting such an amazing man, but it happened! And when it happened, we both felt it; I felt it so much that I literally had to take a step back, and re-group. So, needless to say, I believe love at first sight does exist, Lars and I are proof of that. And of course, it takes time to get to know one another and to truly figure out what this "love" means, but you'll know when that certain someone is in front of you. I know, I know, lame..."you'll just know". I heard that from friends and family consistently, and never believed...I'm now a believer!!! As for now, we're enjoying, appreciating, and loving each other...

He was it for me and I definitely knew it right when I met him. I didn't know it was love, necessarily, but I knew it would be. Here we are almost 12 years later married, happy as ever.

So, I appreciate the cynics (truly- I would have totally agreed with you 3 years ago!), but I have to say it's not like that. I have felt intense attraction when meeting someone, even lots of little butterflies. This was different. It was like lightening when our eyes met. Totally corny, but it's what it was. We were both kind of taken aback by it when it happened. We just knew without a doubt.

yes! many of the people i know met their life partners this way. in fact, my great-great-grandparents met the first day of kindergarten. they were happily married (at 16) for 70 years and died w/i days of each other.

I believe in attraction/intrigue at first sight. For me, love has to be cultivated over time.

Lust is intended, love grows.

I believe that you can sense that something special is going to happen.

Love takes time to develop although I think you can have a "feeling"...

No way. Maybe for those die hard romantics, but not for me. How can you love without speaking and feeling?

I wish there was but I just don't think so.

I FREAKIN' WISH! but I doubt it.

I want to believe in love at first sight. I want to know the moment I see him, who the man I'll spend the rest of my life with is. I know I've had some false alarms in the past, but I'm not too worried about it now. I'm just living my life to make myself happy, and if I happen to find Mr. Right, then that'll be the cherry on top. But I'm not going to go search for him by looking at every guy I pass in the eyes to see if I feel that spark.

Yep, happened to me twice. It was very brutal and intense both times, and they both turned out to be right: they were my two longest relationships - my current BF of 3 years was love at first sight!

But for those who mistake it for "lust", it's not about looks or physical desire at all; it's about some sort of energy that feels just like home. I'd say it's almost like a 6th sense, where something of you and that person meets up in the air and says "ok this is happening" waaaaaay before you even start thinking of a first date/kiss/lay.

The day I "met" my current BF, I wrote this on my blog:

"[blablabla] He made me feel like I had arrived, and the last step had brought me back where I started, so long ago."

I'm assuming it must be something chemical that scientists haven't figured out yet. Can't be pheromones, since my BF and I met through 5000 miles of internet cables!

No, love takes time to develope. You have to know someone and get to know them in order to love them. It's lust/infactuation/crushing...people confuse love with lust and it's so...ugh.

I think lust at first sight happens a lot more than love, I think love at first sight is bull

I agree with psterling above as well. How many times have you felt something with someone and then nothing happened, now just because something did happen its all of a sudden "love at first sight?" Sorry but thats coincidence. I'm not really a romantic at all.

Karlotta, I'm just curious did you write that after first talking, or first sight. If you wrote that after you all had talked online and gotten to know eachother.. then you already knew you liked his personality, correct?

I dont believe in love at first sight, at least not for me. I dont fall in love easily so it takes a while for it to grow. Not saying that this may not work for other people, just not for me

ROTFL Gscott86. Good one. I do believe that love has to grow. I knew my husband in high school but wasn't attracted to him, and then ran into him 3 years after graduation and he was different. I was really attracted to him, and couldn't stop thinking about him. He is still the same, nice person he was in high school but the lust at first sight lead me to fall in love with him through the years.

Love takes time to develop. I think you can be really drawn to someone at first site, but "first sight" implies a physical response...love is so much deeper than that.

LUST at first sight...

LUST, Chemistry..yes. But I believe you have to get to know someoen before you love them. How do you know if you love them if oyu don't now if they snore? If they have bad hygiene? If they are super rude to your friends and family? If he likes to cheat? Those are things you only know about someone when you start spending time and getting to know them..

No- you may find a person attractive and maybe hit it off but it takes time to really have a commitment and trust- to me that is love. I think if you have that chemistry at first sight and things work out -you may believe in love at first sight but it is not love it is lust.

Nope. Lust at first sight.

Lust and infatuation, yes, but to me "love" means the deeper feelings of appreciation, loyalty, and commitment that only develop with time, so no.

Lust...not love.

to be honest, i'm surprised many ppl do believe in it.

i'm a cynic most of the time .. lol .. but i do believe in romance. i think you can feel a connection to someone at first sight & i think you can know when you've found someone who understands you on a level that most ppl don't, but i don't think you can love someone when you first meet.

anyways, congrats to the ladies who have healthy, loving relationships

I guess you can never give up hope right ... So I guess I do believe there might be fireworks one day ...

I do agree! I think people are taking the statement to literally. But I do agree!

I do believe in love at first sight! I have loved my husband since the moment i met him and here it is 14 years later.

LUST at first sight definitely.

LOVE at first sight...no way.

If you include loving someone's personality in your definition of love (and I most definitely do), then it's not possible. You can't know someone's personality by just looking at them, so there's no way to know if you love them. Yes, some people might find LUST at first sight and then it turns into LOVE later, so they feel like it was LOVE at first sight, but that's not really what it is, the true love happens later.

candace87: "How many times have you felt something with someone and then nothing happened, now just because something did happen its all of a sudden "love at first sight?" Sorry but that's coincidence. I'm not really a romantic at all."

Ditto to candace87.

One thing I have realized over the years is that real love is not the sweeping grandiose gestures, the hot sex, the butterflies in the stomach when you look at someone. That is all great, but it is not love.

Love is caring so much about someone that even when they are at their worst, what you care about is their happiness. It is the little things that you do everyday for someone out of thoughtfulness that become second nature to you, even things that may seem mundane. It is giving without truly feeling expectation for immediate reciprocity.

I think you can have a chemistry meeting someone for the first time, and occasionally that is the person you end up with, but that is not love at first sight. That is just the occasional exception rather than the rule, I think, and a coincidence.

yes - i 100% believe in it. the FIRST time that i saw my fiance i knew that there was something there and i was right!

I believe in instant attraction at first sight...but love is something that grows, you can't love a person you don't know and who doesn't know you. Big difference between LUST and LOVE.

I voted no, but I'm with Tari... I knew the second I met my current boyfriend the first time that I was attracted to him. He gave me butterflies in the first five minutes of conversation... and I hate to admit it, but I was dating someone else at the time! I felt so guilty about my feelings towards him that I didn't see or talk to him again until after things fizzled out with the other guy. Five days after guy #1 and I broke up though, I was on my first date with guy #2, and almost a year later, we're still together and he still gives me butterflies. And he says the feeling that first day was absolutely mutual.