During Valentine’s Week, there is discussion everywhere about love and romance. Couples plan surprises, gifts and special moments to make each other feel special. The common belief is that true love is the most precious experience of life. In films and novels, ‘love at first sight’ or very deep and passionate love is often shown as the greatest achievement of life. But in real life, does love really happen only once or does it knock many times in a person’s life?

Detailed study of ‘Kinsey Institute’

To find the answer to this question, a detailed study was conducted in America’s ‘Kinsey Institute’. In this research, 10,036 single people aged 18 to 99 were asked how many times in their life they had fallen in deep and intense love. The results busted many myths. According to research, on an average a person experiences deep and passionate love approximately twice (2.05 times) in his entire life. That is, most people experience such a feeling only twice in their life, which they consider to be true and deep love.

The study also revealed that 14 percent of the participants admitted that they had never experienced such intense love. Whereas 28 percent people said that they fell deeply in love only once. 30 percent people experienced this type of love twice, 17 percent three times and 11 percent four or more times.

According to Amanda Gesselman, the lead researcher of the study, people talk a lot about love, but this is the first time that an attempt has been made to scientifically understand how often such an experience occurs in life. According to him, passionate love comes only a limited number of times in most people’s lives and is not an everyday feeling.

Analysis based on age and gender

The research was also analyzed on the basis of age and gender. Interestingly, no major difference was found between the experiences of men and women. However, with increasing age, people talked about the experience of love more often. This indicates that love can happen at any age and there is no set limit for it.

These findings also help relationship counselors and psychologists, because it makes it easier to understand that deep passionate love does not happen again and again. In relationships, not only passionate love, but also friendship, trust, respect and understanding are equally important.

What is ‘Match Group’ data?

According to data from dating platform ‘Match Group’, 60 percent of single people in America consider themselves romantic. At the same time, 73 percent people believe that films and social media create unrealistic expectations regarding relationships.

In such a situation, if someone has not found true love yet, then there is no need to panic. Every person’s experience is different. Love can appear anytime, at any age and in different forms. It just needs to be recognized and cherished.