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Absolutely. Truly falling in love, IMO, happens over time. You don't have to be in a romantic relationship with someone to fall in love with them. Being around them for a while is usually enough.
I lean to it being just infatuation because how else will you get to know the other except by interaction away from work and a certain amount of time together?
In the workplace, we see one side of someone and people in the workplace will often present only a professional side of themselves.
There are still fundamental characteristics that come with a person in and out of work. Yes? I think you can get a good idea of who a person is in a short span. It might not be an in depth analysis, but it's something.
We all "fall in love" with our own perceived concepts of our object of love. We can form these notions over a short or long period of time, even through letters, etc. before we meet a person face-to-face. We can also fall out of love with the person when/if we discover he/she isn't the person we had believed. So yeah, you can "fall in love" before a date, but that doesn't mean you'll still be in love by the end of the first date -- or halfway through it.
Or sometimes you can loathe someone then turn around and be madly inlove. Geesh, I need to stay away from Jane Austen for awhile. My Mr. Darcy complex is coming back.
Is it possible to fall in love with someone you've never dated? And I do mean In Love, not just infatuation (if there is even a difference).
Maybe it's someone you work with daily or someone you are friends with; Someone you have known for a while, not just someone you met.
Does (in) love require physical intimacy?
What you are describing is a crush or infatuation.
To fall in love requires feelings on the part of BOTH people. This is because you can't really know someone until they allow you know them. If you don't really know them you can't really be in love with them.
Physical intimacy is a way to further get to know that person, but is not necessary for falling in love at first. Some women get in trouble when they assume physical intimacy means a guy is letting them get to know them - he's usually not. You must first have the combination of each person wanting to know the other intimately in non-physical ways to fall "in love" - THEN the sex just enhances that.
What you are describing is a crush or infatuation.
To fall in love requires feelings on the part of BOTH people. This is because you can't really know someone until they allow you know them. If you don't really know them you can't really be in love with them.
Hmm, that's interesting. So you think that one person cannot be in love with another person unless the love is returned??
Hmm, that's interesting. So you think that one person cannot be in love with another person unless the love is returned??
What you are now describing is "unrequited love" - which means you have a strong crush and may even love the person - but again, you can't really be "in love" with someone without their willingness to let you in in the first place.
What you are now describing is "unrequited love" - which means you have a strong crush and may even love the person - but again, you can't really be "in love" with someone without their willingness to let you in in the first place.
I understand that, but what do you mean by "let you in"?
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