Is it possible for two people to not love each other?

[Raiden]

Originally Posted by Theorist

How is it at all ridiculous? And of course I'm assuming two people are in close proximity, otherwise how would they meet each other.

I told you why. I'll restate what I said and add something else.

1) You are assuming that two people are trapped in close proximity to one another, as if they were marooned on an uninhabited island. Those kinds of things don't happen very often any more, because more and more humans are moving to cities.

2) Human relationships aren't love/hate. There are so many other possibilities, along with degrees of love and hate and different kinds of love and hate.

3) Humans do not befriend the people closest to them, necessarily, nor do they fall in love with the people closest to them. Three different people on this forum fell in love with another person on this forum (six people, three heterosexual couples formed), and in each couple, one partner was from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean than the other (one partner in each couple was from the US, the other was from the UK or Europe). This kind of thing happens more and more often these days, thanks to the internet and services such as Skype.

Your question was ridiculous because the answer should obviously be "No".

[Theorist]

Originally Posted by Raiden

I told you why. I'll restate what I said and add something else.

1) You are assuming that two people are trapped in close proximity to one another, as if they were marooned on an uninhabited island. Those kinds of things don't happen very often any more, because more and more humans are moving to cities.

2) Human relationships aren't love/hate. There are so many other possibilities, along with degrees of love and hate and different kinds of love and hate.

3) Humans do not befriend the people closest to them, necessarily, nor do they fall in love with the people closest to them. Three different people on this forum fell in love with another person on this forum (six people, three heterosexual couples formed), and in each couple, one partner was from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean than the other (one partner in each couple was from the US, the other was from the UK or Europe). This kind of thing happens more and more often these days, thanks to the internet and services such as Skype.

Your question was ridiculous because the answer should obviously be "No".

Perhaps I should have stated it, but I assumed it would be inferred that the two people come into contact.

My point was not that two people will ultimately always fall in love with each other. Rather, that two people always have the potential to learn to love each other (ie: they are trapped on an island, learn to work together for their own survial, etc)

Also, I am very aware of the greyness of emotion. I mean love in the most general of terms: good feelings towards another, which may be derived from any reason.

edit: btw, I didn't realize 3 couples had formed on this forum, I must've missed that. That's pretty awesome.