When it all comes down to it, do you really only truly fall in love with one person in your life? (If you’re under 35 don’t answer please, no offense)
What’s “true love”?
lasts a lifetime, thru thick and thin, lean times and fat times, etc.
No. I’m under 35 but I’ll stand by my belief for the simple reason that I know of more “of-age” people that have had multiple “loves” than not. Sorry, but there are no genuine biological or religious reasons to believe in a single “soul mate.”
By the way, this is my first post in this forum and I haven’t had much chance to read any prior relevant posts.
Fifty years old this month. I have fallen in love several times.
However, if you define true love as “lasts a lifetime”, you are setting the bar pretty high. If that’s one of the criteria, you may never fall in love - ever. Or you may not know it - until you are even older than me!
I think for each it is different. 25 years ago I met my husband on a blind date. We are still together and love each other very much, more than we did when we first married. Is he the only love I will ever have, I do not know. He is 53 and I am 44. We won’t ever divorce, so one of us has to die to find out the answer to your question. And ummm, That is not something I really want to happen. 
Kris I was starting to feel bad about dating a 20 year old me being 28 and all. Thanks for making me feel normal.
By your definition, yes, you only get one “true love” if you choose to be with one mate over all others.
I actually believe in the same thing. I plan to marry my next girlfriend and have a lifelong relationship with her, so I have built my standards to be extremely high, since I know what I’m getting into.
Well I’m 30 and I’m answering anyway.
I don’t know that I understand the difference between ‘love’, ‘lust’, and ‘infatuation’; as such, to suggest that people are limited to one love is pretty silly, just as it would be silly to think people are limited to one instance of lust or one instance of infatuation.
‘True love’ in the traditional sense seems to me a concept with little or no inherent meaning outside of a temporal context that implies nothing more than a hybrid of love, lust and infatuation that lasts … well, as long as it lasts. It certainly couldn’t be eternal or unconditional. Nothing is.
You are welcome, In my family age means nothing between consenting adults. My stepdad is 51 my mother was 67, they had been married for just around 30 years until my mother passed away last month. My stepdad’s grief darn near killed him. My father is 16 years older than my stepmom, they have been married around 30 years, when the time comes for one to pass on the other will be sorely wounded too. My brother is married to a woman 6 years his senior and they are utterly happy they have been together 9 years. The list goes on. To find love you have to accept and care for the bad with the good or you just have lust. No one is perfect, no one will ever meet high expectations over a long period of time. Have high expectations in your life and career, not your love. The divorce courts are filled with unrealistic marriages. Above most else, age means nothing between consenting adults. Go for it =D>
I would say that if you had your heart ripped out, put in a blender, and set the blender to wacky, you would be done for life.
If you got married, loved you wife, and she died, you would probably find another woman…
Why do you think that is?
That depends on how you define “loved your wife”.
and also on how she died… but generally speaking “a loving relationship” nothing psycho…
I believe that it has to do with the way chemicals in the brain create love…
If you burn whatever that is out then you might be simply unable to love.
I’m a romantic idealist–I’d easily die for my wife and I may or may not commit suicide if she were to die (depending on how traumatic it would be). I imagine I’d need a strong support system (of people) around me to stop me from doing so.
Again, things depend on how a person defines “love”. 
It does depend upon support, if you are very close to each other. Perhaps that is why we have families and friends, to help us out of rough mental traumas.
no they depend on how extensive the truama is…
you might think “the level of love”
but i think “the level of damage to the love center of the brain”