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at what age can you fall in love?
what age do the experts say its real love not just "puppy" love.
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This is a great question! I don't think there is one answer for that, but I can give you my answer. I just fell in love a few months ago, for the first time. I'm 27. I've really really liked the men I've dated, or young crushes, but I think I knew deep down that it was not L-O-V-E. Then I met Mr. Man in August. I knew I loved him when I found his imperfections charming. I realized that with the other guys, there was something about them that I hoped would change. With Mr. Man, I don't want him to change, and I love him for exactly who he is.
Real love can happen any time provided that you believe it and have faith in it because love is just unpredictable. No one can tell at what age you should be in love but you yourself should determine it.
Just Have Faith
well i met the man of my dreams at only age 7 it's really quite complicated. See i think he likes me but idk!!!!! sometimes it's frustrating cause he lives in California & i live one hour from Austin. Now don't get me wrong he's not some big star that every girl dreems about. he is on tv though he play's one of the twins on desprite house wives when they go like 10 years foward. he's like 4 years older than me but yet i dont care!!!! the funny thing is is that one year mine & his family went to newyork & on the sidewalk middle of down town he started to fight over me w/ his friend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But what i find wierd is not only do i think of him all the time but i can remember every moment i spend w/ him!!!
when things aren't going good i wish he was there to make me smile! :) i will admit sometimes i look at other guys but then i always think of him> imean i do sometimes have other crushes but those come and go but he's always in my heart!!! i haven't told my family yet because he's a friend of the whole family so it would be kinda akward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh ya by the way i fell in love @ age 7 &now i'm 10!!!!!!
I was 15 when i first fell inlove, eveybody older than me in my family kept laughing saying i was to young to be in love and that i didnt even now what love was, well they was wrong!! so wrong! I just knew i was deffinitly in love with this guy, i didnt know how to make anyone understand and to be honest i didnt realy care because all that mattered to me was being with that guy and making him happy like he did me. Well anyway people still continued to say things like 'You wont last, its just lust, its a phase she's going through, teen crushes huh ha ha'.....
.......i knew i WAS INLOVE and strangley enuff me and that guy stayed together for 7 years after that and we have a beautiful 6 year old daughter who we are both very proud of, yeah ok we ended up growing apart in the end BUT we was inlove for all thoses years and we are still very good friends now and love our daughter dearly.
Abit strage to stay with someone for 7 year and have there child when you dont even love them, wouldt you say?!! :D
Well first of all I made an account just to leave my opinion on this topic. Im actually 12 years old and i have experienced love pretty well. Though I still dont understand it pretty well. 2 years ago, at age of 9 I met this girl, wich name I dont want to reveal, she wasnt completely good looking but she had a great sense of humor and real feelings. like the girl you could talk about anything. Wlel time passed and when I became 10 i fell in love with her. How do I know? Well, I dont really know if it was love, but it was a really weird sensation for me at that age. I was alway thinking on her, I could not get her out of my mind. Whenever I was not close to her I had like butterflies in the stomach, and it felt realy bad. How do I know she liked me? i supposed it. She always blushed whenever she was close to me. Other than acting really suspicious, once a friend of her was going to tell me something, which she never told me, and the girl came and stopped her friend form saying whatever she was going to tell me. This happened several times with other friends of her. Well, at one point, we kinda got separated and the butterflies stopped for some reason, though I still like her. Now she is much prettier, but Im too shy to reveal my feelings to her, because now she doesnt even speaks to me, and she began to hang out with "popular" people on school and now I think many of my classmates also like her. So yeah its a pretty weird sensation, I regret keeping it secret while we still were friends. So my conlusion is that anybody can fall in love at any age, or at least at a minimum age of 9. Sorry for the long story.
Remember there is a clear difference between LOVE and INFATUATION.Age is not a barrier only when you have the experience.If she/he loves you he will never ask you for pre-marital sex but if its infatuation the temptation is there
There's no age limit when you can fall in love; Your heart will tell you if it's love and if it's meant.
I don't know that you can say that puppy love isn't real love; I think that when you are new to the concept of love, your love is based on less knowledge and experience, which may cause it to be a naive or innocent love. Not necessarily a bad thing. And I tend to think that we all remember our first crushes/loves throughout our lifetime, which indicates that to a certain extent, it can be genuine love. Love doesn't have a beginning or expiration date; don't worry too much about the details, just be open to it.
It seems to me that real Love is a commitment to the highest good of your own soul and the soul of your "other." By soul I mean the Life within your body, that your body is incubating, that leaves the body at death: in other words, the reason you exist here, in this world.
When there is this depth of awareness and commitment then real Love has a chance of developing.
From a psychology standpoint, you are in adolescence until you pass the age of 22. However, I think that love/relationships require experience to grow. Meaning no matter how old you are if you are inexperienced with love/relationships you still don't know anything. I think it takes having a really bad relationship, a not so important one and everything that comes with breaking up to learn what real love is.
for me.. there was never a right age to fall inlove.. it'll come and hit you.. that's it! you canot expect when will it arrive.. but the good thing is, if it's the right love.. it'll make you grow and feel good about yourself..