Is it possible to be in love with someone you don't know personally?

Why not? If you believe you are, you are. it's that easy.

 

interesting. you may be on to something here.

 

I could believe that I am a mermaid, doesn't mean it's true.

 

no, but i suppose if you believe that you feel like you're a mermaid, that might just be true.

 

no. That's attraction to what you see.

 

maybe not to others ... but that is only as relevant as you want it to be.

 

It's just a philosophy thing. If everybody stopped to believe in god, would he simply vanish into thin air? The power of mind is virtually limitless, but it's up to you how - and how well - you use it.

 

I Don't believe that you can really love someone you've never met. You might feel strongly about them, but to love someone takes more than just talking to someone online.

I like people I know online, but I certainly have not fallen in love with someone I talk to online. it creeps me out to think someone might 'love' me just because we've talked.

Online, at school, on the bus, whatever.

 

this doesn't have to be online, it could someone you see around or in school. but i think it's unlikely - there's love and then there's infatuation.

 

IMO, no. You'd be in love with who your mind made them up to be, not who they really are. TheGhost brought up a good point though...if YOU believe you are, then well, I guess you are.

 

It is entirely possible to love others without knowing them personally. If love is conditional, then it is not true love. Why must I know you to feel love towards you? My love for you is not based on whats past, or actions you take, Its based on something much deeper.

Would I love the person who selfishly kills my mother in front of me? yes! But I would not necessarily feel it at the time. It doesn't mean the love is gone, just overshadowed by other feelings at the time. Eventually, I always forgive, sometimes forget, and always keep the love.

 

Yes, you can show love for someone you don't know, but are you in love with them?

 

You can not show love that you do not feel. So you must be in love to show it.

 

Fair enough. I always viewed being in love with someone as an emotion that was reciprocated intimately, but I suppose it doesn't necessarily have to be that way. Thanks wonka, made me think about it differently.

 

I love a lot of people, but I am no in love with them. There is a difference.

 

I don't think there is any difference between loving someone and being "in" love with someone. The latter is simply a more in depth appreciation for who that person is and a general affection for them (most often sexual) that is usually not shared with another. The term itself is a relatively meaningless one we created to differentiate between the various forms of relationships we have with others.

I see no real reason as to why love can't be extended with all those we choose to share it with, in whatever way we choose to; be it a sexual appreciation, emotional, platonic, friendship, love for a pet, etc.

The only conditions love and our relationships with others have are the conditions we put on those relationships.

 

love:

- you see someone, you want to bonk them.
- you care what they think of you. you want them to bonk you.
- you care that your hair looks 'just right'. it's weird, but you'd probably let them bonk it.
- you date, apparently you love rom coms and walking on the beach. yeah right, talk about a big pile of bonk.
- you tell her you love her. she believes it. you bonk. high five.
- you spend all of the better part of your relationship bonking.
- you want to see her more than your family. likely because your family doesn't bonk you.
- you marry, you are owed a bonk on the honey moon... just. one. last. bonk.
- you will not stay in a relationship that you don't get no bonk in.
- you leave the love of your live for a eighteen year old cheerleader called nikki. she is a christian, wants to save herself for marriage - you find a loophole.

whooppps.

 

I do.

 

^bloody right

 

Do you reserve the term 'in love' for romantic love and/or familial love?