what does falling for someone mean?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 09 May 2004 13:34 PDT

It would be helpful if you could give more details. Are you looking
for a Researcher's opinion about what happens when you fall in love,
or are you looking for a definition of the phrase "falling for," or
something else? The more you can tell us about precisely what you
need, the better we'll be able to help.

Hello monks~

When someone says they are "falling for" someone, they mean they are
beginning falling in love with them. Here is a Google cache (available
for a limited time) showing the phrase used in this context: 
://www.google.com/search?q=cache:U89ehFo4xEkJ:www.gurl.com/react/panel/dilemmas/0,,624078,00.html+%22falling+for+him%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
(Gurl Connect, "Advice")

The phrase "falling for" can also mean other things. You can "fall
for" something other than a person, for example. See this story:
http://www.riverdeep.net/current/2000/09/091100_fallsports.jhtml
(Riverdeep, "Falling for Sports"); it implies that folks are "falling
for," or falling in love with, sports.

Also, see this news story:
http://management.silicon.com/itdirector/0,39024673,39120314,00.htm
(Silicon.com, "Local businesses falling for domain-name scams"); here
"falling for" means "believed in" or "believed authentic."


Regards,
Kriswrite


RESEARCH STRATEGY:
"falling for"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&q=%22falling+for%22&btnG=Search

I WISH I NEW I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW TOO I THINK THAT IM IN LOVE BUT I
DONT KNOW HOW DO U KNOW I TELL MY BOYFRIEND THAT I LOVE HIM BUT DO I

What would you feel like if he just up and left?  Usually the worse
you feel when you think of this, the stronger your feelings for him
are.  Falling for someone, in that context, means quite simply you are
falling in love with them but that you are unwilling to say the words
"I love you".
That phrase is usually used to "test the water", to see if they are
feeling the same without putting yourself at full emotional
vulnerability.