How do you know if you live someone if you haven’t felt anything similar to your first love?

[Anonymous]

I know they say that the first love is the only time you will feel that particular way of loving. And after that then falling in love will be different. I think when you and your first love end on good terms it makes it easier to fall in love again. But when it goes horribly wrong it feels more like trying to fix yourself with love. I may be wrong but I at least think that if me and my first love hadn’t had such a sad fallout then maybe I would have just moved on and felt enough of the good emotions to love again. But sometimes I doubt it’s possible. Being broken and then healing on your own-as I have-has been a weird experience. I healed on my own and I didn’t use love to do it. And now I feel like I can’t love. I feel like I don’t see people the way I used to. I just don’t see love as a good and strong thing the way I used to. So I worry I wouldn’t even know it if I did fall in love again

[Guy13]

That can’t be explained. You will know it when it happens.

[Agape93]

You don't. You have to learn what love is and what it can feel like, and apply it to how you feel.