It's Valentines day, and love is in the air(or the lack thereof). I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but I'd like to hear other opinions.
Can one really fall in love with someone they've never actually met?
You often will hear someone profess love for people they don't actually know i.e. heads of state, religious leaders, celebrities, internet acquaintances. I personally think it's a pile of rubbish, but I've been wrong before.
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"I'm in love with Jesus
I'm in love with Jesus
I'm in love with Jesus
He saved my soooooooul"
I'll throw the first tomato.
In response to what Dave was saying, no one can really explain love and there are so many different kinds, so how can we know if someone truly loves someone else they don't know? Only the people who experience that kind of love would be able to tell. I love Jesus, I love my "religious leader", and I love humankind in general- not with the same kind of love that I have for my husband, but love nonetheless. Call it a pile of rubbish, and I'll still love you :o).
I may have never met him but I do know him and love him.
how on earth does a question about falling in love turn into religious and cultist debate?!?? bleh.
in any case, my opinion on your question, is yes, of course you can fall in love before meeting.
of course, it's gonna be a bit less likely to mean something over the long term, but still yes.
on the other hand, love of a deity and love of a human seem quite different. and there would appear to also be a great divide between adoration of a cult or political leader and romantic love for a human being.
I have some friends who met and fell in love on the internet and have been together for 5 years since. In my opinion love is odd and can't be explained, or put in boxes with labels-- there are so many different kinds. Even "romantic love" has many different faces. I've always felt that there are as many kinds of love as there are people in this world.
sure you can fall in love without meeting. But you can know a person and not have met them. You definetly can't fall in love with a person you don't know.
no way jose' ... no one can love someone they have never met!!!
ok, i am not all into online dating. i am not into dating at all. but i did start talking to this one guy on line... we got to know each other pretty well... for a few months! than i met him, we hung out. his mind was still beautiful. i still loved (loved? liked? i dono) his soul... but OMG he was weird. we have remained distant friends... by email only!
u have to actually be able to look into each others eyes to know... and i say touch a little bit too. :P!
I agree mostly with Loxy and Blog God. You certainly can't fall in love with someone you don't know. However, I myself loved someone I had met, but very very briefly, and didn't know well in person at all, but loved them nonetheless. It's a lesser kind of love, because you're right, love has to grow through the contact that can only come through looking in their eyes and knowing their soul. But there can be smaller forms of love without meeting, I have a very close friend whom I've never met, and I do love him, though not the same as those I have met. I belive you can fall in love with a character, or personality, which doesn't necessarily have to be portrayed in person. But in order to obtain the true, deep love that is everlasting, like Loxy said, it can only grow with time. And I believe it must be time spent in person, to be truly real and strong.
(Hi five Davy. Our secret conspiracy to get more comments by bringing religion into this post as succeeded flawlessly. Now its my turn, go make a post about Michael Jackson on my blog, but in favor of the dude....the sky’s the limit.)
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