Like when someone says, "Oh, you're too young to be in love." Is there really an age limit to be able to fall in love? I am younger and I have never considered myself in love. I’m not saying it couldn’t be possible, but I think it is less common.
So I would say there is no age limit on love. I was married at 20 years old and I definitely love my ex-wife at 20 years old. But young people grow and mature a lot through out life their and the things they cared about at 20 or 16 just aren't as important to them as the things they care about at 30 or 40. Or needs and wants change, we acquire responsibilities and burdens and we have to take on greater responsibilities in order to maintain that love. Love is not forever, it requires a lot of work and constant maintenance to maintain.
So young people do not tend to think as much about the future as older people do. So yes they fall in love and love the person they are with for all the things and reasons they they care about today. They do not consider if this is a person that they can grow with them throughout out theirs lives together as their needs and want change and life becomes more and more complicated.
That is what happened to me and my ex-wife. At 20 your lives where fairly uncomplicated. But as we evolved in our life's we grew apart. So at 46 I have a much deeper respect for what it really mean to love some one, but at 16 or 20 I had no perspective on the true meaning of love, but that did not mean I did not love my ex-wife at that time. To this day I loved the person she was at 20, but I don't love the person she become later, but that did not mean I did not love her.
Totally possible. Why we keep hearing otherwise is because of the amount of complications that have evolved over the years in terms of dating, the fact that a human brain isn't matured fully at young age, the effects of puberty and failure of our mind to process the changes properly at times. Heavy infatuation due to hormones may be mistaken with love etc but truly, there are definitely possibilities of falling in love with someone at an early age and at times you do not even know about it.
I think there are multiple different levels of love that are all valid in their own way. I don't think it's possible for a 10 year old to love someone the way a 50 year old does, but I think it's completely possible for a 10 year old to genuinely love someone the way a 10 year old can. And it's absolutely possible to continue to genuinely love the same other person through one's life - just changing the type of love as the person grows.
A 10 year old kid, A, can love kid B as much as a 10 year old is capable.
15 year old kid A can love the same kid B the way a 15 year old feels love.
25 year old kid A can love kid B like a 25 year old. And so on. A 25-year-old does not love the same way a 10-year-old does, but that doesn't mean the 10-year-old doesn't love.
There's no age limit on falling in love. But it's likely different at different life stages. First love is different than love in your 30s and 40s and to love past 50, I'd expect, but there is always joy and excitement and giddiness and fun.
Experience gives you a broader picture and a bit of caution before and during.
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My friend is in her 30s and met her husband when she was 15 years old, they’ve been together all those years and mutually supported each other through cancer and disease, her saving his life, and later, him saving hers.
Definitely possible. I fell in love with my husband at 17 and still in love with him today
I do believe that anything is possible. If the two right people meet and they were meant to be, there could be love between them at a younger age. I think it is more common for infatuation than real love, but anything is possible.
While possible when young, I think it is much more likely for two people to really understand love and what it takes to maintain that in a relationship when they are older. There are just so many things that make a relationship successful in the longterm.
One of the most important things that I think keeps a relationship strong is communication. The older I got, the more I understood this and the more I learned its value in my relationship. I didn't fully appreciate good communication when I was younger as it relates to dating.
So, while I think it is totally possible to be in love when someone is younger, I think the necessary skills to maintain and grow a relationship are much more common as we get older and learn from experiences.
I’ve had my first boyfriend at 13-14 I thought I was in love, I had my second boyfriend and it wasn’t love, then my 3rd boyfriend and it was more infatuation, Then my current boyfriend came along (we had a Latin class together for 2 years and one of those years was during covid). How did I know I was in love? Well I was wondering if he was okay, I couldn’t talk to him I was worried about him I was awkward when I did talk to him (he reached out to me to start a conversation). After that my emotions got a lot stronger and I became a lot more involved with him and his interests. I love jazz music which I didn’t think I would like.
It is posable! I had several friends fall in love in high school and are still in love today. The ticket is choosing. You make the choice to never give up and never turn back. My parents didn’t meet in high school but they have been married for over 45 years and still madly in love. And their saying was that we agreed that divorce was not in our vocabulary.
If you're too young then that may be true. I feel like adolescents however can be exceptions. It's just not as common.
I know for a fact what I'm feeling right now isn't a crush. It's too deep and has gone on for a couple years now. I don't know what to call it.
yes. It's possible to have a first time love or crush when younger, the reason most people don't take it too serious is because kids are young and change over time as people. You may out grow each other as you get older and start taking different paths in life, when i was growing up in school there were a lot first time loves and relationships but most of them are no longer together and move on with their lives.
Actually No!, becouse the range of 14-21 is the Curiosity Age, and not falling in Love, is the age of "exploring", such as, erotism chemistry, arousal, fantasy, daydreaming, feeling, sensations, etc... Love Age will be when you "learn" to love for 2, love yourself and Love you'r half, Care about yourself, and care about your Half, Be Loyal to yourself and to your Half, only then you can call it "falling in love". 😉
I know when I was 18 just before I turned 19 and just before my girlfriend dumped me just before my birthday that I was in love. I didn't realize it until I realized I was losing her and then lost her. THEN, love when from being some abstraction to being a real emotion right along with devastation-and-depression-causing hearthbreak.
Love is a chemical reaction
https://www.youtube.com/embed/EBNi9QfPTe4It is absolutely possible to have those chemical reactions, when young. It feels just as real and strong as later in life.
Like most chemical reactions though, they will fade... which is why they often call the initial puppy love and things won't last if a stronger bond is not developed after that.
yeah lol, but it definitely isn't common. like my friends that stayed in a relationship throughout highschool didn't have a good relationship in the end, because they both changed as people. But i have heard stories about people staying together since like grade school lmao.
I think it's absolutely possible but highly unlikely. I think most teenage girls AND boys mistake lust for love. Just because you want to kiss them, doesn't mean you're in love with them
That being said, if you feel like you would die for them in a heart beat, you might be in love
There's a difference between being "in love" and actually loving someone. Being in love doesn't require much. It's just strong affection. Teenagers experience this. But to actually love someone, it takes time, being with someone, getting to ACTUALLY know them. That's not something that happens with teenagers.
It is possible my great-grandmother was married at age 16. Do you want to be tied down to one man in your teen years. Go out enjoy life. Date several young men. Experience the opportunity of going to upper level of educational opportunities. It's easier to go to school without a child in tow. Nothing against children they can come anytime. Go out and enjoy life do not play for keeps at this time.
To be in love? No.
To be in love and handle it in an effective way that doesn't leave you hurt? There is definitely a level of maturity needed there.
I have seen quire a few people say they met in highschool and we've been married for 45 years.
I guess that's why they call them their highschool sweethearts 💘
Most people fall in love before 25 and that is the only true love. It only really happens once. It happened to me when I was a month shy of 16. I will never love another man like that again.
You can only fall in love, if you are young!
Once you grow old! You become intelligent enough to resist, the Fall in Love!
So beloved beautiful girl! I hope you fall in love and cherish the the amazing moment's of life
It's more than just possible, but that's when it usually happens. I was seven when I first fell in love.
I think it is very common, just people try to force young people to not feel or try to tell them that their feelings are wrong or invalid.
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