Why do people say “you’re too young to fall in love”?

Unnecessary X’s: Why do people say “you’re too young to fall in love”?
I can understand “too immature”, or “too disrespectful” but NEVER “too young”. Everyone has different levels of maturity and intellect. I’m honestly starting to think that older people are jealous of our youth or something hahaha

In the end, there are WAY worse thing that we young people can be doing than loving each other, wouldn’t you say?
btw, REAL world example: My parents fell in love at 17, got married at 18 and are still HAPPILY married today, in their 50’s. ^,..,^

Answers and Views:

Answer by West Coast Love
Because they don’t understand mental/psychological capacities for a varying amount of reasons.

Answer by Tony
Most teens do not understand the concept of love.

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Answer by Steve
Because you might go far in a relationship really fast and do things that you may end up regretting and wish that you didn’t till later.

Answer by Kelsey Ward
Because they have never been in love or they had a bad experience with love when they were young.

Answer by LMRT71
it makes them feel better about the fact that they are really old -.-
my parents met when they were 14/15 and will have been married 40 years this june
so ya too young to fall in love is a load of $ hit

Answer by princess
idk..cause u haven’t daaited enough people 2 know what love is idk! i dont think u can u 2 young

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Answer by Adam
They aren’t saying you can’t, but take a poll of adults and ask how many married there bf/gf from whatever grade you’re in. I’ll be 98% or more didn’t. No offense but you just don’t understand how love works it takes a long time i don’t care how mature you are

Answer by Razer
beacause its for your betterment…they know when they were young and falled in love..they got nothing but loss of time…good living…so they dont wnt that with u,.

Answer by Prose
Your ight… but yeah guess it goes back to a time we no nothing about

Answer by Oneironaut
I don’t think anyone is too young to fall in love. I do think that some people can be too young to understand what love means or what the ramifications are of showing that love in a physical way. Of course there are plenty of adults who have no idea what love is either. So I say you are right. I think parents say that because they are afraid for their children and don’t want them to have their heart broken or worse get pregnant or get someone else pregnant. Parents say that because it is easier to dismiss young love as insignificant than to accept it and deal with it as your child goes through it.

Answer by ofpenandsword
I used to hate it when people would say that to me. You’re young, you’re not incapable of feeling, right?

What I’ve discovered as I’ve gotten a little older is that when you’re younger you can understand love, but it’s different than when you’re an adult. Think of it this way. As a child, you knew what red, green, blue, yellow, and all the other colors were. But now that you’re older, you can start to understand the shades and hues. Forest green and Lime green are completely different.

As you get older and mature, you start to understand those different shades of love. So yes, you can TOTALLY be in love when you’re young, but you start to understand it better and in different ways as you get older.

Answer by Chayen Werner
Yes. Love is a beautiful thing that we are blessed with. We are not too young to fall in love. I’ve asked myself this question too. When you love someone at a young are, you will love them differently that you would as an adult. Some people don’t consider that love, but it is still love. It’s just at a lower level. You can fall in love young. Don’t be discouraged not to! If you think its the right person, let yourself fall.

Answer by Jenny Cole
I understand what your saying. So, of course you can fall in love at whatever age, no matter how old you are There are limitations, of course, but people fall in love when the time is right The difference is, emotionally mature people deal with love in a different way.

Answer by ilovecbrennan
I think they say too young because when we’re young we’re still innocent and haven’t completely been exposed to everything that life has to offer. And they believe that we’re naive to think that we have falling in love or have been in love. Maybe it’s just a way of protecting themselves of letting the youth grow up too fast. But who knows, one day you’ll probably say it yourself :]

Answer by Toby
Young people are normally too immature to understand love. Once you go through a few relationships you see how fast it can fade and you’ll recognize true love better/

Answer by Maya
Cause when you get older you change
idk it makes sense now that i’m older

Answer by Sara
because every young relationship ends by the end of highschool.
the rates of young teens lasting thru marriage is very low.
so adults beleive that its becus u were young when u two met.
it was infatuation and did not understand what love really is.
no one really understands what love is until they feel it. (n its not always a good feeling)
plus alot of teens abuse the word i love you. so thats why

Answer by Joe
is its your perants or someone else older they just think your to young to date or to fall in love i short there treating youlike a baby

Answer by T
Well as an adult… You now what, you’ll understand when you have your first child. It’s no disrespect to young adults. It’s just like what you said there are WAY worse stuff then that. But being a former child myself, HA-HA. Falling in love is the easy part. But a broken heart is something else. TRUST.

Answer by Nick storc
nobody is too young it just usually takes aclong time to find true love. some people will find it early and most won’t be so lucky

Answer by ??
its becauase the three are put together, once your young, the others tend to come with it

Answer by 90’s baby
Because they want you to focus on more important things, like school and your own success. And most importantly self-esteem, if you don’t love yourself how can you love someone else? Teens these days are just full of low self-esteem, or at least that’s what it seems with all the kids I know.

Answer by Morrison Carley
I agree with Steve. When you are young you are living for that moment. You not thinking about what may happen in the future if you do this. My sister was 13 when she got pregnant because she let an older boy who she really thought she was in love with, talk her into having sex with him. What do you think happened when everyone found out? He left, our parents talked her into having an abortion, and now she has this on her mind for the rest of her life. Our parents warned her about him but she didnt listen. Now she is 31 with kids and says none of her kids better get pregnant at 13. lol

Answer by TheSagiQueenie11
Honestly, people say that for a variety of reasons, here are my Top 2:

Reason 1: They don’t want you to rush into things and wind up hurt in the process. It’s possibly because they were the same way when they were your age and they just want to protect you so you don’t experience what they did. They want your first love to be your only love and true love, not just a case of puppy love that you’re taking way too seriously too fast. They just want you to be sure before you make any life-altering decisions behind something that could very just be a facade.

Reason 2: They could be jealous of you. Because of what you say you feel when you’re with that person, because they’ve never experienced it and want to experience it so bad. Or had to wait sooooooo long to actually feel it for real. I know it’s sound hurtful, but hey, some older people are just as spiteful and mean as that Queen Bee at your high school and want you to miserable right along with them and will do anything and say anything to make that a reality.

Hope I Helped Out!!! XOXOXO

Answer by Faith
I don’t like it when people say that “you’re too young to have love for others”. But I have to say, children are HAPPY when they love people…Such as their siblings or parents. They’re obedient, and they do as they are said. Aren’t we raised to love one another, and to be “there” for our siblings, and to be kind? Doesn’t that all trickle down to love?! I think it does, and sometimes the elderly don’t know what they are talking about. Kids are just a younger version of the adults, but we don’t have the capacity to love?!?!

Answer by nuerox
Youre completely right. Perception is reality. Too many people in the older generation forget what it was like when they were younger, they lose touch by defining everything in shades of gray. Overall different experiences work for everyone, some people dont need to drift to find what they want if youre prepared to approach love objectively and not cause the reason why your together to become a subjective strangle hold. It should never be I love you cause I need you but rather I need you cause I love you.

Im only twenty and Ive been single forever because I dont want a chain to hold me down in one place. I think thats the only downfall when youre younger, you may miss out on a lot of different opportunities and random hook ups that can lead to a lesson in life, but in the end it’s all a big sliding door.

Answer by Moe J
Hello there,
Too young? If I told you that I fell in love with my later-2-be husband at the tender age of 12, would it be too young? Yup, we eventually (at age 21) married, had 3 children and stayed married for over 25 years.
In the beginning, I was in love with _being in love._ During the years together through good times and not so good time, I came to love him on a different level. All loving relationships go through growing pains and wonderful joys. Puppy love is just as real to young (too young) people as it is to us older folks. We just don’t want to see you getting tied into relationships too early in your young lives before you’ve had the chance to look around, compare lifestyles, compare people and add some life experience to your growing maturity.

You’re absolutely right about there being many worse things young people could be doing; stay on your course. Love a lot and live a little.

Answer by Sah’reth Apostolos
I think you are right about them being jealous…I don’t think that older people are as capable of ‘falling in love’ as younger people because they are too dulled and distracted by the world and what their life has taken them through.

More than just being jealous though, I believe older people automatically assume that everything needs to be thought out. An emotion, such as love, however doesn’t have hardly if anything to do with intellect. But by the time you are old and set in the ways of things, you are used to almost if not solely relying on your intellect and judgement.

Most elders assume they are automatically wise because they have lived so many years as well.

Answer by Animal luvr
i agree, there’s no rule that says “once you’re the age of __, you can fall in love.”

but then again, being in love is a feeling that not everyone knows. even an older person may not fully know what being in love means/feels like. i have felt strong crushes towards guys, but i honestly don’t think i’ve completely been in love yet.

🙂