Originally Posted by
Pheehelm
Falling in love then going out is a reverse of the usual pattern as I understand it. (I don't know if I'd call that weird either, but it does seem atypical.) If you think of my questions in the context of "ask out then fall in love" it makes more sense -- note that nowhere in my post did I ask people who've loved and lost why they're trying again. It makes sense keep trying once you know what it's like. I'm asking about those to whom the in-love experience is/was purely academic (and, ideally, haven't/hadn't met anyone they're really interested in yet).