Is it possible to be in love and not know it?

[desert_rose26]

..or..find out only when it's too late? For example, the idea of not knowing how much a person means to you until you've lost them? Just wanted to hear your opinions. Has anyone experienced it?

[willow2900]

Maybe.

For me any feelings I've had when someone is no longer a big part of my life are the anxiety and clinging feelings to what once was. I know now that I often mistake further loving feelings for just that. Any awakening feelings I have ever experienced with someone leaving have been more about reality sinking in and the rose glasses coming off and me believing truth and reality rather than what I wanted to believe or see. But that's just me.

[spunkmaster]

I think it is possible...someone had to feel it to come up with the line "You don't know what you've got till it's gone."

 

I think you may feel it, but not realize exactly what it truly is until it's too late (in some cases).