Warning: Love at first sight is usually about two peoples dysfunctions syncing up. lol

I believe in attraction at first sight. Just like repulsion at first sight.

Definite evolutionary advantage with each.

But love at first sight? Perhaps a nice thing to say about your SO after time has proven the bond is real. Say that to me within the first six months and you’ll see me pull the Houdini.

0 being worst and 10 being best, I’d give it a 3.

Love at first sight with regards to ones attachment or reaction to a “product” IMHO is totally age independent as a 3 years olds reaction to a Big Wheel will be every bit emotionally attached as a pre-teen to a Play Station…a 20 something to their first car…a mother of infants to a spa gift certificate and a midlife crisis guy to a 2017 Camaro SS. 10’s all across the board.

@Cruiser Love at first sight with regards to ones attachment or reaction to a “product”…]
I am not speaking of how the attraction is seen, but the quality it can be rated on if it were a product, given the expected use and longevity of it. The ”love” would not be the Big Wheel, but how well the Big Wheel worked. What the widget is has really no bearing on the quality. One can get a cell phone withal the bells and whistle but be difficult to use and have crappy service, is the fact it is one of the fastest, smartest phones around enough to overshadow the negatives? Would a person with that phone have better quality of ownership than someone who was given their uncle’s older phone but was very easy to use and had excellent service? In parallel, would a person have a better relationship because he was with the hottest chic, or she had the hunkiest guy, in spite of many negatives, than a person who grew to love each other, through a friendship or other means where they were not originally “ga-ga” for each other right from the start?

1/10 didn’t work for me. The man I’m deeply in love with now was an insignificant face in a crowd at the start.

Good thing love isn’t a product.

The words “love at first sight” is a phrase. Different people use it in different ways at different times.

For me it evokes a priceless experience that changed my life. Again, good thing love isn’t a product. Ratings don’t make sense to try to apply to such things.

Of course such a thing is impossible to rate. Those with the good luck to have it work for them will swear by it and offer their example as proof. And no pointing at the landscape littered with relationship wreckage is likely to dissuade them. Personally, I’m rather impressed by the extent of the smoking wreckage and regard those who beat the odds as lottery winners.

If it was a product it would fall somewhere between crystal healing and ayrvedic medicine. Here is the ‘Official Periodic Table of Woo’. http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RQjQvxtmK8A/TEJLxLVEBvI/AAAAAAAADLY/EvwH1MI9WQM/s1600/Woo+Table+v1.4.png

I believe in attraction at first sight, not love, with the product warning (not rating) of Proceed with Caution.

As a “product” (which is a very odd way of looking at the world) it would get a 10; it just has a very short shelf life.

But while it is in fresh supply, there are very few things worth as much. As economists would describe it, the psychic benefits are higher than just about anything.

Love is just a chemical reaction in the brain. Some people are more apt to feel it than others.

There’s no good reason to say “love at first sight” is any less “real” or “quality” as the kind of love that is mostly built around people being accustomed to tolerating each others’ presence for 15–20 years.

Love is a chemical in the brain. But the idea of ‘love at first sight’ means you don’t even talk or get to know the person. I call woo.

Real love comes with time. If I were to give it a product rating it would sound like a review for an abdominal trainer or some other useless exercise equipment.
“really stoked about having the new life that was promised by using the core II extreme ab blaster but now… I’m stuck with this useless hulking frame that takes up too much space, I’m as fat as ever and my credit card is hurting”

This is the only, real, love at first sight.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzbqS5HroA

@cazzie – Lots of people love someone for years without ever actually knowing them.

@Seek True. Probably because they believed in the woo of love at first sight and lived in denial. Loads of people also believe in astrology their whole lives, too. I’m not here to stomp on anyone’s woo parade. If someone wants to hold onto that idea that they still are in love with that first impression they fell in love with, then good for them. It takes all kinds and we are all different.

There is no love, only Zuul.

@Pachy I believe in attraction at first sight, not love,…]
Is that to say, in a way, those who say ”love” as oppose to “physical attraction”, what it really is, just say do to make them feel less lustful and hedonistic?

@zenvelo As a “product” (which is a very odd way of looking at the world) it would get a 10; it just has a very short shelf life.
Not ”as a product” but as something one could or would rate as a product from the standpoint of quality and dependability, love at first sight would be great even with the fact knowing you will have to replace it in short order? If one looked at any widget one bought would it still be five stars if it worked as one intended for three days after purchase but then conked out?

@cazzie Here is the ‘Official Periodic Table of Woo’.
The higher the number, the higher someone will succumb to whatever?

@ARE_you_kidding_me “really stoked about having the new life that was promised by using the core II extreme ab blaster but now… I’m stuck with this useless hulking frame that takes up too much space, I’m as fat as ever and my credit card is hurting”
As some seem to indicate, it was still a quality purchase and high ranking, even if you are stuck with some useless piece of equipment that lightened your pockets greatly, at the time you purchased it it was a 10, the fact that its usefulness, or even its desire is less than that in short order, it was still good.

@HC no it was not. That’s the thing, Love at first sight is simply a “love” for the chemical rush you get when you are crushing on someone and have already jumped to conclusions about what they are like and what the future will be like with them. Real, actual love is a crock pot and takes time. It’s not a fantasy or an impulse buy. You cannot simply “buy” it either… it’s work, hard work. There is no perfect relationship and accepting your partners imperfections and more so your own is what keeps the roast cooking. Personally I love all of the little barnacles of life that give someone character. I want to see all of the little grey hairs, the emotional scars the patina of life. I want a human, not a godammed airbrushed fantasy robot.