Re: Love at first sight
While married to Husband #1 I walked into a room one day and was introduced to a man who would many years later become Husband #2. I immediately felt attracted to this man. I was a married woman, not yet particularly unhappy in my marriage, had children and responsibilities, etc. And was not the type to fool around.
Throughout the next 5 years or so, I had occasion to be in the company of this man from time to time. Every single time I was around him, I felt this strong attraction to him. I really liked him as a person, plus I thought he was physically attractive, but it was more than that.
Once, at a New Year's Eve party we both attended, he kissed me shortly after midnight. Everybody drunk and everybody kissing. Wow! That was electric! But that was it. Shortly thereafter he moved on in life, got a different job and I no longer saw him. For years and years. Totally lost track of him.
A little over 10 years later I was separated from Husband #1 with divorce papers filed. I went to a picnic and at that picnic was that man! And, he had been married and divorced (his second) along the way. We took one look at each other and that was it. We were together that night and ever after that until his untimely death at age 60.
So what WAS that? I don't know, but whatever it was, it was powerful. And it had never happened before or since. When we (later) talked about our initial meeting, he said he felt that amazing attraction immediately also. And that all those times I was attracted to him at events that he was attracted to me in return. And that the New Year's Eve kiss had "almost done him in". (I suppose he could have been bullshitting me, but I don't think so.)
So, yes, I do believe in love at first sight. But I never associated it with having lived a prior life. I just accepted it as a very real, unexplained happening. And I know I am not the first nor the last person to experience something like this.
