Do you believe high school love is fake?

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ChrisMaster69 · Accepted Answer

Fake is the wrong word for it really.

it does make us look at what LOVE actually is.

If it’s fake, then why do so many people when in their Teens (me included), have huge emotional fuck ups when they break up with someone.

I went to school with people that dated at school and are still married, if it’s fake at what age did it become real.

Also high school in the UK, sort of finishes at 16.

is it school that makes it fake or the age?

Personally, I think love found during school, early on is more pure (even if naive), as it is based pretty much on emotions and nothing material, there is no distraction such as money, work, etc.

it’s more of a huge hormonal love.

Its not fake, it’s just a different form of love, which is different for every person every time they experience it.

Sonorous · Accepted Answer

I believe that either all love is fake or no love is fake.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

No, because of people meet in high school, fall in love and get married and stay married all of their lives happily together. Sometimes they meet in highschool, because boyfriend and girlfriend, then something caused them to have to separate like war, college, moving far away. Then they search for each other many years later in the internet and meet again and end up married. I remember in highschool there were two different couples that got married, one while still in highschool, and the other couple right after graduation. So, yes, it can be serious and genuine true love.

Prettygurl12 · Accepted Answer

I don't think it's fake, but I do think that it's not a mature love and that the majority of HS relationships end because the partners are unable to grow and mature at the same rate.

My husband and I are high school sweethearts. We met in middle school, dated in high school and college, and got married after college. But I don't operate under the delusion that our story is the typical outcome.

We weren't mature in high school, but we were able to grow together so that's why we worked.

Apple1996 · Answer

No it's real love for sure. I'm married to my high-school sweetheart and we are still just in love as we were in the beginning

ObscuredBeyond · Answer

You know the difference by how and by how much it still hurts 20 years later, if things didn't work out.

If it was a one night stand, and you felt no shame kicking her to the curb when it was done, there was only lust.

If she were troubled, you cared for her anyway, got angry when everyone wanted you to write her off to their self-fulfilling prophecies about her, she winds up internalizing them setting her up to fail, went to jail because she believed them and acted on it, got into drugs for the same reason, killed herself for that same reason, the family that cared so little about her was all too happy to seize custody of her child, they wouldn't even hold her a proper funeral much less invite you, wouldn't even tell you where she was buried, and you still couldn't stop loving her even through all that...

Then it was genuine. And no one can take that from you. Been there, done that.

DarkCarousel · Answer

No, I don’t. I believe that your capacity for love is different throughout stages of your life. For the limited experiences we’ve had by that point, our measure of love can still feel complete. I don’t believe that feeling is false. I would never tell someone at that age that their love isn’t real. I don’t look back on my love and think that it wasn’t real.

josephinelcajon · Answer

"puppy love" comes several times in stages of growing up. They do not turn sexual until puberty. Even most High School love is mostly learning about relationships and seldom last past it. I would not count it out completely though. Many say they found there true life partner even in elementary school

domenico07 · Answer

Absolutely. I never really partook in it because I saw what the people who did were like (personality wise).. they would act like they were incredibly happy, but were (not so) secretly miserable, and I could see right through it. And in high school, I was very introverted til senior year, but I still never got into relationships of that nature in high school. And I was also really busy with stuff outside of school, (I did and still do volunteer at soup kitchens, Earth Day cleanups and other charity work) so I felt like it would be inconvenient because of the other stuff I was and still am involved in.

Yurrasis · Answer

Depends. I know some high school sweethearts stories that have ended with a marriage and happy family.

My highschool's sweethearts all ended up in some sort of disaster though. Either broke up after grad, or married too early/had a kid and ended up making bad decisions or divorcing.

Some of it is just young love, other ones end up lasting to the end.

manuzi · Answer

No, I know a person who started dating with her husband when they were 15.

High school love is true love. The problem is that people are still very immature when they're teenagers, it's a learning experience. Most high school relationships will not ended with a marriage, but they're as real as any other relationship.

dustybiker · Answer

It’s a learning experience. What you take from it depends on a great number of things. What each is looking for or ready for. How well you really get along, trust and respect each other. It’s different for everyone.

DaveJord · Answer

No its not fake... lots of people experience love for the first time in Highschool. The problem is that most high schoolers do not have life experience to know what true love really is. But that does not mean what they are feeling is fake.

Puppystarfish23 · Answer

Not fake just rarely lasts. I know one couple and they've been together since they were 14 and have 3 kids together and are still madly in love it's actually really sweet

MindYourEyes · Answer

It depends really. I mean I had a relationship that started in high school. And we were together for a long time. But it didn’t work out for me. And he’s still in love with me to this day.

Helpmepls12345 · Answer

I don’t believe it’s fake…. just some are it depends on the people. I friends think my friend and love each other and it will last long cause we have known each other for nearly 5 years

Serenitykayyy · Answer

I don’t think fake but temporary. Maybe fabricated.

Mary087 · Answer

Some can be true and genuine but not always fake, but doesn’t also mean it can last a lifetime the way some high school couples expect.

LiamSawyer · Answer

It can be real but mostly it's infatuation mistaken for love and also in high school there is a lot of peer pressure.

RedStiletto88 · Answer

It definitely feels real at that time but as we mature our expectations and needs change

MrNameless · Answer

I don't. I know a few people from house school are are still together

mark000h · Answer

No, I don't. I actually think it's really pure, kind of innocent.

NathanDavis · Answer

I know it isn't... but everyone has it differently, or not at all

Sugar_7 · Answer

Yes i’m sure it’s 100% fake. It’s more of lust than love and rarely there’s a strong successful relationship that lasts forever maybe or for some time.

slatyb · Answer

No, the feelings are real. The resulting plans are often unrealistic.

helva · Answer

Don’t think it is fake, but usually does not last long.

Daniela1982 · Answer

Some are. I knew two couples who dated exclusively through high school and when they graduated they went their separate ways. So maybe it is just to have someone to bone steadily.

Nagahime · Answer

Yeah, it definitely is. It's just puppy love. Most people never stay with the people they dated in high school. Some people do, but those are few and far in between.

skyeee_ · Answer

not really but to be transparent most high school relationships probably dont even last

Cherry234 · Answer

A lot of the time it's not real. There are people who marry their high school sweethearts but they're very rare.

SmokinAces2000 · Answer

Not really, me and my girlfriend have been off and on since high school and she’s pretty much the only girl I’ve ever loved

AndrésC64 · Answer

Not fake, but it's most likely not going to last. High School kids still have so much to experience.

Hangry06 · Answer

Not fake. There's no future and most times, it's infatuation

redwine321 · Answer

Not fake my husband and I've been together 7 years been married for 5 got together a week after I turned 17

Anonymous · Answer

It's not that it's fake. It's that high school kids haven't fully matured yet. High school kids haven't a true understanding of deep meaningful love. But to be fair a lot of fully matured people today don't either. Lol

Anonymous · Answer

Yes i do... high school students are still children, they don't understand love. I think they should focus on their studies rather than love.

exitseven · Answer

It feels real enough so that should be good enough.

AdithyaR · Answer

Nope, a friend of mine began dating in high school and they're still together and adorable as heck.

BaldAvenger · Answer

I believe that they believe their in love. I believe that they believe that it's real. However, this IS before they know what love is.

Twalli · Answer

No, but is isn't as intense as love between people that are older.

Anonymous · Answer

young love is the most real  OLDER LOVE IS MORE FAKE

Razp_Sorbet · Answer

No it can be very much real

_alice_ · Answer

High school love is a wasting time.

HeartFullOfGlue · Answer

No, its just unstable

MrTaboo · Answer

Most of it is. It's all hormone driven.

TrillXHippy · Answer

The high school that I went to it isn’t

ManHater · Answer

Yes. Its just stupid puppy love.

Dinosaursandanime65 · Answer

If what’s shown in Cobra Kai is accurate then yes

Waldoe · Answer

no... love may be short termed... but its real

Anonymous · Answer

It is usually just temporary.

Fireguy17 · Answer

no, to them it is real.

QuietRunner · Answer

no it real while you are in High School

lrina · Answer

normally, yeah

Anonymous · Answer

No, teenagers can have real feelings.

Citizenkirk · Answer

No just naive

Gwenhwyfar · Answer

Not at all

devoygf · Answer

it is very much real like Kylie Jenner butt

Jouth · Answer

I think you might be an idiot

driven159 · Answer

yes, just puppy love

Anonymous · Answer

High school love is hormonal lust

xJayleenx · Answer

Not always

In_Trance · Answer

Not necessarily

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