Introduction

In most cases, we fall in love to compensate for our unmet needs, when we find someone similar to us, when
we find someone who reminds us of a close person we love or when someone meets our unconscious criteria.
The unconscious criteria are simply a list of traits that should be found in a person before we can fall in love
with him.
We fall in love at the first sight when someone meets most of our unconscious criteria at the first meeting. In
the classical world, the phenomenon of "love at first sight" was understood within the context of a more general
conception of passionate love, a kind of madness or, as the Greeks put it, theia mania ("madness from the
gods").This love passion was described through an elaborate metaphoric and mythological psychological
schema involving "love's arrows" or "love darts," the source of which was often given as the mythological Eros
or Cupid.
Psychological conceptions
Research has shown two bases for love at first sight. The first is that the attractiveness of a person can be very
quickly determined, with the average time in one study being 0.13 seconds. The second is that the first few
minutes of a relationship have shown to be predictive of the relationship's future success, more so than what
two people have in common or whether they like each other

Questions:
1. What are your arguments to believe that love at first sight exists or does not exist?
2. In your opinion, what are the differences between love at first sight and lust/physical attraction/desire



You cant look at a Person for the First Time and Call it Love
It is not possible to fall in love at first sight. It is called lust or desire. It's lust because don't know the person.
You don't have a clue about their personality. Of course you could guess but they could be totally different on
the inside. Spending time with the person is the best way to know if you're in love


It actually happens
I met this guy in college, when I first saw him I knew that someday he was going to be mine. And he knew that
I had to be his.

It's weird because I was dating another person from high school and thought I loved him. But since the day I
saw him, the "love" I had toward my boyfriend started to fade as if it wasn't even real. Next thing I know, all I
wanted was him.
We are actually dating now and it feels great.