Love does have boundaries; love itself, in our world today, shares a very thin boundary line with lust. For example, pedophilea and incest. That's not love. I'm not saying teenagers can't love, because I believe quite the opposite. I'm just commenting on the first part of the statement...

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I agree with what you said on pedophilia and incest, because that is outside the 'love boundaries.' I'm just going with the old saying.. Also, there are a lot of teenagers and adults that do jump to conclusions about being in love with someone, ex. dating someone for a month and saying how you're so in love with them. Not all people are so immature though, and can distinguish true feelings for someone apart from just lust and liking someone. Not all adults say that teenagers can't experience love but I've heard it a lot. "Oh, you're too young to know what love is." This is true in a lot of cases where people are overcome by hormones and simply have shallow feelings for someone, but true love can find you at any age, in my opinion.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I agree, though what I believe is that a person can only really experience being in love when they are mature enough to understand what love is. Other than that, it's just a crush. But I do agree that adults are too generalizing of the younger generation as far as love. :/

by Anonymous 15 years ago

Most teenagers (and some adults even) are very confused about what love actually is. A lot (I do not say ALL) are just so excited (and are also fueled by teen hormones...) to have someone who feels the same way about them that they jump to conclusions and make assumptions that they are "in love". And then there are the jerks who say "I'm in love with him!" when she only likes him because he's hot.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I don't think adults say teens don't ever experience love; it's more like "don't have the maturity to distinguish love from hormones sometimes or to keep their shit together". That's why there are laws to protect you from adults looking to exploit that instability.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

I don't think adults say teens don't ever experience love; it's more like "don't have the maturity to distinguish love from hormones sometimes or to keep their shit together". That's why there are laws to protect you from adults looking to exploit that instability.

by Anonymous 15 years ago

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by Anonymous 15 years ago

people naturally experience mores severe highs and lows during their teenage years, your emotions seem to be stronger. just like teenagers tend to get so depressed and worked up over the "smallest things" as adults like to call it, the positive benefit is that when we experience the feeling of "love" it also tends to be more severe. i think thats why teenagers get so obseessed and head over heels with their emotions. not necessarily because its lust or infatuation, but because our emotions tend to be stronger. maybe some adults mistake this for us "falsely" experiencing love. who knows :) i think its different for each person.

by Anonymous 15 years ago