Here's a question Ive been burning to ask

[mantarei]

How many times have you been in love in your life?

[Lovelace]

Possibly never, possibly once.

 

Does it count as love if the other doesn't feel even remotely the same about you? If so, then yes.

[Mauxly]

Three where I felt it and they said it back.

Once where he actually knew what love was.

[HouseKitten]

Twice.

 

Once with my ex, who I was with for four years, and my boyfriend, who I've been with for 9 months and I'm head over heels for him.

 

Of course I also love my family, and my cats, and my close friends, etc etc

[rosephase]

I have loved a lot of people. Still do. I tend to think of myself as someone who loves easily. I have been in romantic love, maybe, 8 or 9 times at the age of 25. But if you are talking about people that I was in love with and planned our futures together and built a life and committed to each other I would say 3 people. Two of which I'm with now and my first boyfriend from high school who I still very much love and who is a good friend.

[Shallow]

Unrequitedly, many times. Requitedly, never.

[Proactive Paradigm]

....knowing how I feel now, once. Everything else was just words, for which I feel bad, but they just don't compare.

 

However this one real one is very much of the 'un'requited variety.

[mantarei]

I guess im trying to gauge how many times it happens to a person...where you meet that person and the chemicals fly for the both of you...

 

you know?

[oldenoughtoknow]

Three unrequited, when I was young. Five real times since then.

[HouseKitten]

I guess im trying to gauge how many times it happens to a person...where you meet that person and the chemicals fly for the both of you...

 

you know?

 

It's really a very individual thing. Some people will meet someone very young and never look at another person. Other people will have several different loves.

 

Especially considering everyone will be more or less open to love depending on their circumstances, upbringing and previous experiences.

[CaptainNapalm]

Three times

[Sanesoul]

Once. We're still together after a bumpy ride 10 years later.

[quirky]

I've loved and been inlove, alway requited but I've never fully surrendered to a man, I always knew it would end, I only commited fully once.

[petite]

Two times.

[easyguy]

Once... so far.

[savignon]

twice for me and my hubby says twice for him

[brainfog]

Not counting the kind of love such as my kids or pets, I'd say twice.

Both ended with a rejection, never wanted either to end at the time.

My first love was for the better that it ended, I see that today.

My last love tears me apart some days to think what could have been..

[mantarei]

I really wonder if Ill fall in love again...and if i do, whether the guy will be anything like the guy I fell for the first time. :S

 

If so, worrying...

[ToBeOrNotToBe]

Once...I think you can only love once but who knows there is always the possibility that my opinion might change.

[ScorpiGal83]

Twice requited

 

once unrequited

 

I'm also in love with Robert Downey Jr, does that count? hehe

[LightbulbSun]

Countless times, but it's never been reciprocated.