When someone says: "I thought I was in love"...

how exactly can they think that??? could you think you're in love when you're not??... How exactly can you fool yourself? :think:
Or how can you determine you're in love without feeling for the person in the first place?

Or is that usual phrase considered non-sense?

Ohh interesting ..

To be frank, i don't know about people . But for me, i can exactly know if i just like that person or i love that person .. It's just a feeling .. A crush is easily identified than love ( to me ) .. The only confusion i could point at is when you reach the point from a crush to love .. that would be really confusing .. i am a believer of love from first sight .. ( i am crazy i know )

I think people usually say that when they experience a new love that makes their previous one look like it wasn't love.

Maybe when things change, and the person you love changes... then you think wait I don't like\love this person..

I've never experienced such a thing :XD:

I think people usually say that when they experience a new love that makes their previous one look like it wasn't love.

Exactly. It's when you find "true love" that your previous love pales in comparison. Then you know you weren't really in love, merely thought you were. Because if what you are feeling now is "true love", then that must not have been.

^and if next time you find even truer love.... will this one wipe out as well? :os

hehe, well u should stop talking and meeting people so u stick with ur "1" love..lool

Jk

I don't think we fool ourselves .. It's more like we don't know How the true love feel like .. we can not understand how the true love is til we get to it ..

^ exactly
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Exactly. It's when you find "true love" that your previous love pales in comparison. Then you know you weren't really in love, merely thought you were. Because if what you are feeling now is "true love", then that must not have been.

So you think there's only one true love?
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I don’t know
I don’t think that if a couple were once in love but things didn’t work out and they separated and then years later fell in love with someone else means that they were never really in love before..
People fall out of love..
and fall in it again
I think.

Or maybe you meant they only 'think' that?
Hehe gomen (sorry) ><

Um to the original question. I don’t know, I don’t really understand it either but I know people really feel that way so it can’t be a non-sense phrase. Well to them anyway :p :cute:

I don’t understand how they can lie to themselves..
And even if they can and did.. they’d know it deep down right? It’s like living in denial? I mean wouldn’t it occur to them soon, that they really don’t feel that way? How long will it stay in their subconscious minds?
Umm hehe nevermind..
I’m sputtering ‘non-sense’ myself now xD

but most of you have taken the phrase to have been said after the person has fallen in love with someone else.
What if someone says that before they experienced a new love? :p

I think it happens the most when someoone's going through a rebound.

Justification of how fool you were !!!!

I think people usually say that when they experience a new love that makes their previous one look like it wasn't love.
Exactly.

Or not even after you fall in love with someone new, but let's say you and your previous partner ended things, and the fact that things were over didn't affect you much - you got over them very quickly, you weren't depressed/sad, the relationship didn't have a huge effect on you, etc. To me, those are signs that it wasn't "the real deal", and even if while you were with them it was good and you thought you were in love, it couldn't have been love if you could move on with your life without them so easily like they never meant anything.

I think that you really know that you're in love when you loose that person and do the impossible to get him/her back !

"Love" is not a feeling, it's something deeper...a kind of attitude and the actions that go with it.

Being "in love" is a marvellous feeling of being swept away by the wonderful character of a certain person, the focus of our attention.

Being "in love" is a signal that you love somebody, or that you are coming to love that person. But sometimes, it turns out to be ONLY a feeling...and the feeling leaves after some time passes or some other discovery is made. Then people usually say, "I THOUGHT, I was in love". Maybe they should say, "I was in love, but it turned out only to be a feeling."

Sometimes, the opposite happens. People stop feeling "in love" and they think they don't love the person any more. But then something happens and they discover that they do love that person still; that they can't give them up.

I'm with what Dem3eti said as well..when you really fall in love everything else you've experienced before feels like it wasn't real..
when it lasts its real,..i think xD

and..

Sometimes, the opposite happens. People stop feeling "in love" and they think they don't love the person any more. But then something happens and they discover that they do love that person still; that they can't give them up.

exactly! then you know it's the real thing..

"I thought I was in love"... = "I thought I heard someone calling my name...."

In both cases it is "unsure".

Did you ever experience it when the first time you being injected "taking injection"? Before really getting the needle inside your skin you will never know hat it feels even if the whole nation described it for you! Same thing for love, you may not know till you really really feel it!:heart:

Claiming love is "easy", any sensual feeling people may mistake it with "love", but real love is... [To Be Continued]:sunsmile:

"The greatest ironies of life: having the right person at the wrong time, having the wrong person when the time is right, and finding out that you love someone after that person walks out of your sight "

You never know that you are in love with someone until you lose that person.:(

You dont think you're in love, you're either in love, or not!

Don't know...never experienced it. Or, I always know it's not 'love'.You dont think you're in love, you're either in love, or not!
Now that's very informative! thank you!

Sometimes, the opposite happens. People stop feeling "in love" and they think they don't love the person any more. But then something happens and they discover that they do love that person still; that they can't give them up.

But sometimes, by the time that person discovers that it was real love, it would be a bit too late to go back and try and win that person back again.

Maybe love is levels? Having a crush is at the very first level of love, it's not strong, but still, it's love..!