Is it possible to feel that way again?

[JessicaCH]

When you've been in love with someone, and you're not with them, is it possible to feel that way about anyone else in the future? (Not wanting to go into any details about my life; I would just love to know what people think about this question. I'm nervous about asking it, as worried that people might say no - really hoping the answer is yes!)

Of course

Am I getting this right - you're saying is it possible to fall in love with more than one person in a lifetime?

@Butterymuffin Yes - obviously it's possible to really like more that one person, but when you've been really in love, is it possible to feel that way about someone else?

Definitely and usually when you are least expecting it!

I hope you're right!!! I know that people can have more than one serious relationship but I wonder whether second/third etc loves can be just as amazing as the first time of falling in love? (With the butterflies, and the feeling of "WOW! I want to spend my life with this person!" etc.)

You most certainly can and it’s just as beautiful and life affirming as what was lost.
Timing isn’t always right though!

To be honest - I believe you never feel the same love twice.
The love I felt/feel for my ex, is unlike any other before it. And there were times before, when I thought I'd never feel that strongly again. Yet that relationship proved it was possible to fall harder and stronger then ever before.
But that's my experience.

@JessicaCH

"Love" is an attachment response that almost all human beings are capable of. It's not a magic cosmic thing like some kind of enchantment. It's just a quite ordinary, mammalian sort of experience that is a mixture of parent/child closeness and trust, and sexual/reproductive type motivations to pair bond and have babies.

You are extremely likely to experience it several times in a lifetime, provided you meet people fairly regularly and participate in some kind of social contact.

Don't put it on a pedestal or imagine it's some mythic unrepeatable thing

The first love giddiness - I don’t think returns. And the feeling that you’ll die if you weren’t with them, either.
(Ok, I was a teenager the first time)

But certainly - falling in love, butterflies and wanting to share a life with someone - happens again....
For me it had to be several years in between those. Had it three times, at different stages of my life...

Thank you everyone for your responses. @Anytime and ChewyLouie, if you don't mind me asking, have you seen this in people you know and/or maybe experienced it yourselves?

Yes. The love and giddy ness is strongest with the third big love in my life. Being older, I think it's based in reality more. It has come out of things like his kindnesses to my children, rather than all the flowery stuff

@Soopermum1 That's really lovely.

Yes absolutely

That is so great!