I'm a huge Johnny Cash fan and can't wait to see Walk the Line when it comes out next week. The romance between June and Johnny has always fascinated me. Here's an an interesting new article about its turbulent beginnings.
So apropos of June and Johnny, do you think some people are meant to be together or that this is a romantic myth? Do you believe in love at first sight (or meeting)? Comment below...
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Whatta you think, K?
I do think that two people can experience an inexplicable attraction to each other from their first meeting. It's happened to me, but I believe that it's usually a once-in-a-lifetime deal.
An attraction is lust, not love.
That's lust at first sight. That's not the same thing or what she's asking I don't think.
I believe that some people are meant to be together and that staying apart can really sort of wreck their lives, ultimately. Like trying to fit a square peg in a round hole. And I do believe in love at first sight or meeting or whatever.
-Katie
I met my wife on a commuter train in NYC. I couldn't stop looking at her for 5 weeks. She had a wedding ring on so I never said a word to her. Finally she started talking to me one day. We talked on the train for months and never saw each other otherwise. One day she got on the train and told me she was getting a divorce. We were married 8 months later. That was 9 years ago. I am a lucky man. So yes, I believe.
Both!
Love at first sight struck me in high school. I remained in love with him for 13 years, never having the chance to be with him.
Now I just think love is a sick joke. None for me, thanks.
I totally knew when I met my husband for the first time. I went home that night and told my roommate I was going to have this man's babies. I did not tell my boyfriend that though!
We ended up together and can't imagine being with anyone else, even when he drives me nuts, like now during football season when he is obsessed.
I fell in love with my husband slowly, over time. I think that' is much more mature way to do things.
Johnny and June were comitting adultery and there is nothing romantic about that.
Of course I believe in love at first sight! When I first saw my wife, we were at a party after a seminar. She was wearing an engagement ring but all I noticed was the bright glow around her. My mind actually produced what appeared to me to be a visible golden light all around her. I asked her out pretty much every day for the next three months until she finally said yes. I wouldn't be surprised if love at first sight is some sort of cue of perfect genetic compatibility. We have sure made some great babies.
I have had the dilema of meeting my meant to be person while dating someone else. Call it adultery of you want to but to me it was very hard. I am glad I made the right decision but it was hard at first. You cannot pick when you meet the "right" person and you should not pass up that person. I am just glad I did not marry the one I was with before.
I also met my fiance (a fellow KnoxBlab member)while I was dating someone else. In fact, I was living with someone else. But when I fell in love with the woman who will soon be my wife, I knew something was wrong. If you are supposed to be with the person you are with, you cannot, I repeat cannot fall for anyone else because you just are not thinking that way. We met at a mutual friend's wedding and I swear I could not stop looking at her and she was staring at me. I kept wondering why this woman was staring at me but I could not stop staring back. Tat was how it went down. We tried to fight it off for a while but it was pretty pointless.
I fell madly in love with my husband the moment I saw him, and luckily, he felt the same way. We met on a Sunday, said "I love you" on a Wednesday and moved in together four months later. We've been together 13 years, married for 11 and have two children.
Oh, and I LOVE the commuter train story! I read that to my husband and he laughed and said good for them.
Love at first sight? Nah. Love at first conversation? Maybe. I knew my husband slightly in a work context. I thought he was smart and interesting but never considered him as a mate.
Then one night we went for a friendly beer - which turned into a marathon dinner/conversation - and I drove home ready to marry the guy.
We dated for almost a year, and lived together for six months before we decided to get married, but honestly we could have tied the knot that first night.
I don't know about love at first sight but I do believe that some people are supposed to be together. When it is supposed to be, you can fight it all you like, but you will be miserable if you don't give in.
I knew it on the first date. He says he did too. Married 15 years. Couldn't imagine being with anyone else.
To agree with fellow anonymous ("Love at first sight? nah. First conversation? Maybe."), when I first met my match (a fellow KnoxBlab member as well), I thought he was one of the most arrogant, condescending pricks I'd ever encountered-- so I wrote him off as such. In a different setting months later, we met again, exchanged phone numbers (under the premise of business), and ended up hiking on a beautiful Saturday a week after that.
It's been about eight months, and now we share the same house, call our pets 'our' pets, and have the same vision for ourselves.
So developing what we have now was a little twisted. But he told me that he knew after our first hike (a 7-miler) and conversation that he knew how it was gonna be. I don't think attractions are inexplicable, or that we were 'meant' to be together before we set out, but that's the way it is now-- I can't imagine us being apart.
Katie- who are you meant to be with?
I am with the person who said it is adultery plain and simple. those who replied to it and defended their own actions appear to have been DATING someone else when they met Mr/Miss Right. NOT married. HUGE difference. I would suggest you talk to a spouse whose previous significant other met thier "soulmate" and ditched house and hearth to be with them for some perspective on this.
Yes, my darling Katie, some people are meant to be together. And, yes, staying apart can wreck their lives, ultimately. Or at least the life of one of them. I know. I lost my soul-mate many, many years ago. Married someone else, have had a wonderful life together. Now retired, children grown. But still, every day, after all of these years, I still think of the one I let go...
your poor wife. I cant imagine being married to someone,giving them your all,bearing their children and there they are pining away like an idiot for someone who wants someone else. you are a jerk.
Love at first sight?
Sounds better than love at last call, which is what most of us settle for...*grin*
Who am I meant to be with?
Someone who hasn't yet figured that out for himself :-)
-Katie
I didn't marry the man I should have. I married another man, a very nice guy. But I've regretted my choice for the past twelve years, which isn't really fair to my husband (although he doesn't actually know I feel this way).
Sometimes I fantasize that the man I turned down and I will eventually end up together in old age.
No, you're wrong KAG. I HAVE figured it out!
Sarah Vowell did a great This American Life piece on Johnny & June ("The Greatest Love Story of the 20th Century"):
http://207.70.82.73/pages/descriptions/03/247.html
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