<p>Being in love blows.</p>
<p>Once it happens, you are enslaved to its effects for a seemingly-endless while… .to its eventual detriment.</p>
<p>Nope. Fallen in lust/infatuation, sure, but not love.</p>
<p>e: Not sure I want to. Simply having feelings for someone sucks, having it reciprocated and then ending is even worse.</p>
<p>djamieson- No, I’m being serious. Like, dead serious. I never ever want to have sex.</p>
<p>do you have a fear of it or something?</p>
<p>Pencils- That will change when you find the right person most likely. I am speaking from personal experience.</p>
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That is strange. Why is that? You certainly don’t have to date someone you are dating, and dating helps you learn what sort of person you are compatible with.</p>
<p>@JeS- do you plan on marrying the first girl you date (serious question as there used to be a poster on here who only ever wanted to date one girl and then marry her)? If not, what would be the harm in dating before marriage? As zch says, that way you can figure out what you’re looking for, what you’re not, etc.</p>
<p>No, that’s not it. I suppose dating would be fine, but I’d rather not fall in love at a time in my life when it could never work long term. I know any relationship can fail regardless of where I’m at with my life, but I don’t want to start a relationship that is destined to fail.</p>
<p>So you only want to begin a relationship if the possibility of marriage exists? That brings me back to my original question…</p>
<p>Yes, the possibility. Not the expectation, however.</p>
<p>^Through love, all things are possible.</p>
<p>/poetry</p>
<p>I can’t succeed at the dating game. Call me a cynic, but I’ve learned to put most of my energy into other facets of life where I can find success. I’ve gotten pretty good at some of them, too.</p>
<p>fell in love in highschool. was with my boyfriend for three years. We were planning on getting married, and then he went to Colombia, while I stayed in Los Angeles. The separation was too hard, so we split up…I still miss him</p>
<p>fell in love with a european girl in the summer of last year, visited her again this past summer. it’s rough, for real. but we’re handling it. something like 5000 miles away… 9 hour time difference… ugh.
oh and i’m a junior and she’s a freshman now, but school there is pretty different</p>
<p>I’m currently in love and have been for 2 years now. We’ve lived together for a year. I didn’t realize how much happier it would make me to be in love, but really it does make a huge difference.</p>
<p>Ugh. Developed a strong emotional connection with a girl back in January. We tried the whole long-distance thing (I’m in San Diego, she lives 500 miles away in Oakland). I had my flight booked to visit her this past June, but about a week or two prior, she called me up on the phone to tell me she loves me but just couldn’t do it anymore <em>rolls eyes</em>. Also, this was the weekend immediately before finals! I’m strongly convinced she found someone who’s local, which ended her conundrum.</p>
<p>This was somewhat my first lesbian relationship so I took the break-up very hard; couldn’t function correctly for the first week. On top of that, my grades took a huge hit and I failed two classes.</p>
<p>I’m fine to the point that I can objectively look back on it (and her) without feeling sad or angry… but I have to say, this girl was probably the biggest waste of my time and my biggest regret. I’ll at least take responsibility for allowing myself to get distracted, but I really could’ve done without that emotional agony. It stung too much for me to believe that I would come out richer from the experience.</p>
<p>“love stinks”</p>
<p>since everyone has been so up front about their love lives… I’ll go right ahead too and admit that I’ve never fallen in love… and still don’t know if that’s a good or bad thing in college. seems like there’s a wide range of opinions, just as i thought there would be.</p>
<p>^Go back to the last page and read my first post lol like I said i’ve never really been in love, though there might be someone now. As it is, I don’t think its strange at all to have never been in love by the time you get to college. Its not common, if only for that fact that so many people swear up and down that they were in love with some guy/girl they dated in high school. Love is a term thats just thrown around to much in todays world.</p>
<p>I’m a bit suprised everyone’s being so forthcoming about their different experiences.</p>
<p>I’m in college, and I love someone… but that person isn’t in college. So I guess “sort of” is the technically correct answer for me to the question posed by this thread.</p>