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But do you believe in true love, sole mates, love at first sight, and all that jazz?

I definitely do.

I actually think I have found my other half. =)

The only I don't believe in is love at first site. I believe it's just lust but it can turn to love.

You know, I've been thinking about that question often lately, and I've come to the conclusion that I do not believe in love at first site. It has to be lust, becuase how can you love someone you don't even know. You just lust them physically because that is all you know about them. I do believe that there is more than just one person for everyone. I think that there are different levels of love and some people are just lucky enough to find that person on the first try(The Notebook), while others may never find their absolute love. However they find others that they love and are content with them. I'm not saying dump the person you are with, because there is no guarantee that you will find your other half or that they will even be in your natural lifetime. i definitely have not found anyone even close to my soul mate because quite frankly I am too picky. But should you settle with something like the person that should make you happy for the rest of your life? I just want a gentleman who has a sense of humor. Tell me guys are there any more of them out there? I know this sounds onesided, trust me i know. Some of my fellow females definitely do not present themselves well to say it politely. Anyway, just putting it out there, there are some girls who don't take advantage of you, can you say the same for guys? I'm losing hope. Wow do I sound optomistic or what! (dripping with sarcasm)
P.S. this is definitly how I want to fell about someone eventually.
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You know maybe i am the eternal optomistic romantic but i believe in it all. Even love at first sight. I think that it is rare, (rarer than finding a good vampire ) but i really think it can happen. As SM says gravity shifts. I totally believe it. Kind of silly huh?

I believe in true love and such too...and what's very coincidental, my guys also believe in this also.
I guess you can call my true loves "an accident," because it's truly an accident when we run into each other, and then we just kind of notice something about that other person. I guess you can call THAT imprinting, only I don't remember being a wolf while doing so! Lol.
It's even hard to explain it all, but I do believe in true love and soul mates, just because it's happening to me right as of now. It's just such a strong and full feeling!

I'm a hopeless romantic, and I'd love to believe in the idea of Love at first site. I don't know if I can fully say that yes I do because it's never happened to me. I've been burned pretty well in the past by my ex (we were engaged) and have managed to find almost every asshole in my city...

So as much as I'd love to believe in love at first sight, prince charming, happily ever after...I can't say that I do. But I'm happy for those who do believe in it and have found someone great!

I believe in true love and that there is THE ONE for each of us. Whether we find that one is a different story though.

I don't believe in love at first sight, like most peole have said. How can you LOVE someone you do not know? All you know is that they are extremely attractive! It counts as lust, which then turns into love when you get to know that person better.

However - there is a slight exception to the love at first sight thing. Say you are with a group of friends, out for coffee, waiting in the HUGE line for the Twilight movie premiere, when some male laughs behind you, and it's a real atttractive laugh, and you turn around and WOW! there's a gorgeous guy standing behind you with his friends... and in the movie line for Twilight as well! You catch some of the conversation their group is having ("I do dazzle people like Rob - watch!" or Did you catch the latest episode of The IT Crowd with Peter File? Hilarious!") and you get a glimpse of their personality. Again you think, WOW! And then, well the rest is what you make it.

That ^^^ is my definition of love at first sight.

^ wowzer hope that happens for all of us

I strongly do believe in true love and soulmates, because I found mine three years ago.

I agree with most in here about love @ first sight, I do think it's lust.

the love at first sight is just lust...

but its weird, because my bestest best friend in the world is like a soul friend... i think thats the best way to put it... so since i've found a soul friend, i almost have to believe that I have a soul mate out there somewhere... i'm just getting very VERY impatient with him at the moment...

No. Not the traditional kind.
I read the first post and that's all, so I'm not sure if I'm the only one that said no to this.
Here's the reasoning:
If I had a soul mate, eventually we would find each other and share a happy ending. That means that if I wait long enough I won't be alone anymore. But that's wrong to me. Life is about fighting for what you want. It's about passion.
If there is someone destined to be with me, then that means I have a path set out for me from the beginning. That's so constricting. I like to think that I live my life the way I want and I make it the way I think it should be. Not predestined for someone or something.
In books/stories and movies, it's easy to get lost in that notion, because no one really wants to believe that there is that chance that we'll be alone in our life. But that sets too high of expectations, and we never see what we truly have until we lost it.
That's why I think if you find someone and you fall in love, both parties involved should fight to make the relationship work, not just rely on ridiculous notions of how a perfect relationship should be, instead of how it is.
Like, marriage, why do people get married and then give up on their relationship, you know, all those cute little things they used to do for and say to each other. Instead it's "well we're married now". I mean, it should be a beginning but to looks like an ending, like you took the last big step and you're content. You want to just get fat off of what you have. And it gets boring, and fights ensue, and divorce happens. I don't know. it just seems so crazy to me.
I got off track.

True love, huh?
Like just one?
I don't think so. You can love more than one person with your whole heart. It's about growing and adjusting.

Love at first sight, black magic in the words of Seeley Booth of "Bones".
Nah. Lust, so much lust. If you get to know the person it can eventually turn into love, but at first sight it's that animalistic desire, that's all.

i love Booth. He's a smart cookie...
I dont think that you really were off track... it made perfect sense to me...

I used to believe in love... I'm a hopeless romantic, I can't help it. But my former soul mate is less and less attractive the more I try and be open and have friends the worse he gets... so I'm not sure anymore, but I remember how I used to feel... I guess I'm sort of like Persephone (I envy you. But such a thing is not meant to last.) at this point... but back to the original topic... I believe in animal magnetism, and the hope that it can become something much much more...

I'm gonna go ahead and sound ignorant here, sorry, I didn't read anyone elses entries becasue I'm on a rush to go to bed, but here's what I think:
I don't believe in love at first sight. It doesn't exsist. It's not possible in my mind. I delved into this though when going over Romeo & Juliet. I do, however, believe in Lust at first sight. That's all it is, though I can say I think that lust can turn into love, but the love isn't just automatically there. It's not like.. like a mother seeing her baby girl or boy for the first time, that loveing bond, it's not that way.
As for soul mates and true love, I'm going to say that I don't believe in soul mates... I don't know how to go into that, it's about the same as true love which is easier for me to explain.
True love, you can fall in love 100 times and that can still not be a true love. But a true love is someone you CANNOT live without. You would die without them, waste away. I know true love when I see it. Portrayed in a movie, in a book, or in real life. Seeing an old man waste away after his wife died: of a broken heart. That's true love. He couldn't live without her. She was part of him and she took it with him.. that's true love in my mind. Now that my mind is racing with the thought of love and it's complexity and its diversity I think I'll go to bed. But I would like to add that true love has no bounds, it's unconditional, and self-less.

MyMidnightSun wrote:I believe in true love and that there is THE ONE for each of us. Whether we find that one is a different story though.

I don't believe in love at first sight, like most peole have said. How can you LOVE someone you do not know? All you know is that they are extremely attractive! It counts as lust, which then turns into love when you get to know that person better.

However - there is a slight exception to the love at first sight thing. Say you are with a group of friends, out for coffee, waiting in the HUGE line for the Twilight movie premiere, when some male laughs behind you, and it's a real atttractive laugh, and you turn around and WOW! there's a gorgeous guy standing behind you with his friends... and in the movie line for Twilight as well! You catch some of the conversation their group is having ("I do dazzle people like Rob - watch!" or Did you catch the latest episode of The IT Crowd with Peter File? Hilarious!") and you get a glimpse of their personality. Again you think, WOW! And then, well the rest is what you make it.

That ^^^ is my definition of love at first sight.

I agree with your post x a million. I do believe when you first meet someone, there is an initial attraction, which would take the form of lust and develop into love. It's important to keep the lust in your relationship along with the love.
And don't we all want to meet the perfect guy in line for the Twilight movie who doesn't mind your constant drooling over Edward/James/Emmet/Jasper, etc.