Love in high school - common, 50-50, uncommon, physically impossible

[Airstrike92]

So do you believe it's possible for two teenagers to ever love each other. Or do you believe that you can't have feelings for another person until you turn 18?

 

[Cynovolans]

Last year when I was freshman, I met a senior who claimed she was engaged and going to get married right after she graduates from high school. By the end of the year she was looking for a new boyfriend.

Another friend of mine has had a record number of boyfriends during the last year. All of whom told her "I love you".

Yesterday one of my friends on facebook updated their status to engaged. Today she just updated it to "single".

And everyone i just mentioned was/is a high schooler.

 

[Airstrike92]

Oh in case you're confused about the poll, such as the "50/50" thing, here's a description:
Common - People fall in love all the time.
50/50 - It happens a lot, but not too much.
Uncommon - It only happens every once in a while.
Impossible - It's not possible to love someone.

 

[bathsheba666]

Part of the glory of being a teenager is growth and experimentation.

Both could be somewhat stunted by settling for a mate so young.

Too early for Miss Right, go for Miss Right Now.

 

[Truronian]

It's not impossible, but the vast majority of teenagers that think they're in love will later realise they weren't.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Your brain doesn't stop growing until you're 25. What happens if you meet the love of you life at 18, marry her, but she's a completely different person by the time she's 25?

 

[Cynovolans]

I think I should change my answer from "uncommon" to "impossible" because I just remembered my aunt and her husband met in high school, and now they're divorced. So I can't really think of any example of a high school couple lasting forever.

 

[amadeus]

不 可 能

 

[gangleri2001]

I had a real love expierence in high school. So I wouldn't say that is that impossible or that uncommon.

 

[sophie]

Sure I think it's possible, the problem is that most 18 year olds don't know what it looks like, so they misjudge it entirely, which is why most people who marry their high school sweet hearts end up divorced and disappointed.

That's not to say all high school marriages are failures, just most of them.

 

[_random_]

It happens with teenagers a lot in developing countries, but the courtship process in the west is something different altogether. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it's certainly not something fostered by our culture, so it's fairly uncommon.

 

[Luckymoose]

It happens for people who don't ask about it on the internet.

 

[civver_764]

Love doesn't actually exist.

 

[Whiskey_Lord]

It happens for people who don't ask about it on the internet.

Post of the day.

And it seems to me that teenagers don't actually fall in love with other people, just in love with the feeling of being in love. At that age, most people are just too selfish to fully appreciate a relationship, mainly because teens are still figuring out who they are and most of what they do and think is centered on themselves.

 

[Shadylookin]

I believe teenagers fall in love quite often. Their perception of time however is quite odd. They can go from being strangers, to hot and heavy lovers, to broken up and bitter enemies in the span of a week.

 

[bombshoo]

It's probably 50-50 for the adult population and uncommon to extremely rare for teenagers.

 

[Cull]

Yeah, no.

If I ever hooked up, I probably would be dumped/dump her within a half a year no matter what.

 

[Airstrike92]

I believe teenagers fall in love quite often. Their perception of time however is quite odd. They can go from being strangers, to hot and heavy lovers, to broken up and bitter enemies in the span of a week.

If adults had sex as often as most teenagers do to people they hardly know, it would probably be the same. Sex often ruins relationships.

 

[sophie]

If adults had sex as often as most teenagers do to people they hardly know, it would probably be the same. Lack of Sex often ruins relationships.

Fixed for ya

 

[TheLastOne36]

There was a girl I liked in high school who's personality matched mine exactly.

It's not so much falling in love, but more finding someone compatible with you, which is surely possible in High School.