Is love at first sight possible and can it last?

[lovesick]

Can't give many details as I am in a very delicate situation,, but wondered if anyone had any experience of this? I have had online chats with someone on another forum who I considered a good friend, met him for the first time at the weekend and I experienced something akin to being hit by a bolt of lightning. I don't know how he feels yet, though he gave strong hints, but the only thing I can compare it too was when I looked at my firstborn in the moments after he was born, and felt that I knew him and he couldn't have been other than he was, a sort of instant recognition of him. It was that intense, I don't trust this emotion yet for various reasons and I am playing it as friends but hoping for more. Any experiences would be welome I have hardly slept or eaten since I met him and it is a bit frightening. He is physically not my usual type in most ways, but I am dazzled by him, I can't imagine anyone else being right for me now.

Oh I have been boggle-eyed and slavering with lust a time or two - but it's always been short-lived, and rarely mutual (have also been on the receiving end of blokes who decide that they and I are 'soulmates' despite the fact that I wouldn't actually want to shag them with anyone else's fanjo).

Absolutely YES!!!!!! It happened to me aged 16 and we are still together over 30 years later. There was no question of it just being a quick shag: we waited several years (as was still pretty much the norm back then). And yes, I love him as much, if not more now than I did then and I know he feels the same.

Go for it!

Yes, it does happen. I met my DH on a sailing holiday, went into a bar with a the people on my boat and just saw him sitting there and was instantly smitten, we were in bed 3 hours later, engaged in a fortnight, married within the year and celebrate our silver wedding this year. ( I was 27 at the time and not unworldly!) If you are lucky enough for this to happen to you go for it!

Yes, it happened to me (though it took DH a bit longer!), and we have been happily together for 18 years.

I remember seeing him for the first time and thinking - you are lovely, you are the one. It wasn't lust exactly, though I did fancy him straight away. It was more an recognition of the intense "niceness" of him

Yes, it happened to me too. Was emailing a guy for a couple of months (met on a dating website) before we met and when we did meet it was just as screamingabdad describes. We even slept together on the second date but I reckon it was meant to be because we're still together a year later and want to spend the rest of our lives with eachother.
Good luck.

yes and yes
we are 20 years married this year and still incredibly happy.

The stories on this thread are lovely

It is strange though, because when I met DP and we were both bowled over by each other, it is almost as if we were the only people on earth who had ever felt that way, and what we felt was somehow unique.

What this thread proves is the absolute ordinariness of people falling in love immediately.

Love really does make the world go round.

(It's OK I will not put all my sickly sentimental platitudes back in their box now )