i guess some of you dont remember whta it was like to be 16/ well i do, and pretty vividly. and i remember that not only was i mature enough to date, but i was far more mature than many of my older conterparts. age is just a number. i know that sounds cliche, but honestly it is. different people mature at different rates, and saying that all 16 year olds are alike is like saying all people who like pickles are alike. its a stupid generalization. plus, the only way to mature and grow is through experience, the more oppourtunities one has to meet new people and get to know them and get to know what they like in other people and what they dont like the better (woah run on sentence) like does anyone remember their first boyfriend? remember how *dumb* you probablly acted around them? or all the stupid relationship mistakes you made? well if u hadnt made them then, u would be making them now. and if u hadnt made those mistakes then, you wouldnt have learned HOWto be mature. get what im saying? again, age = just a #
i havent been asked, and if i was interested in someone, there would always be the chance that theyre straight. "hi, how are you. are you a lesbian." isnt my idea of a topic starter.
haha..how old r u anyway????! well....just don't tell her. i might sound bad by saying this, but its just a date. it's not like your together or gonna hav sex or anything. dates r just 4 fun. its not having a boyfrend or nothing....so just go on and hav fun. and besides, if u did get a bf at an early age,, the more times u get hurt by love or false alarm love, the smarter u will get in choosing yo man or girl..
Xia: My friend started dating her boyfriend at the end of ninth grade. On Sunday we're going into eleventh and they're still together.
Driving: you could walk plsces, or date someone older.
sexually mature: my friend got her period in fifth grade. People mature at different speeds. And just because you can't get someone pregnant doesn't mean you can't be emotionally mature.
I think anything under 16 is too young. Like someone else pointed out, you can't drive. Would you like going to the movies when your boyfriend's mom drives you there?
Also, kids aren't mature enough to handle dating until they are older. Sure, there are rare cases of incredibly mature kids. But, like I said, it's rare. It's also rare to find true love at a young age (like 12).
I don't think little kids (anyone under 16) can really recognize what true love is. I've known girls who think they're "in love," but in reality, it's just another crush. One of the 200 crushes they've had that year.
The first guy I met that I honestly and truly liked, I never advanced with. I love him as a friend, but not as a boyfriend. I met another guy, who is also great. We talked for hours online and at school, we dated, and we broke up (because of his parents). Over this last summer we didn't talk alot, but now that school has started up, we've started talking again. I know he has feelings, and I have feelings. I know I love him, but I don't know if it's just friendship or true love.
If I can't tell true love apart from friendship love at 16, then you sure as hell can't when you're 11. Some people can never tell.
Besides, you haven't even hit puberty when you reach 11. Geez. Can't any of you think of anything else but boys/girls? (and don't tell me, "ya, of courz i do! i think of skool + stuff!")
Concentrate on your life. Be who YOU want to be, not who your bf/gf wants you to be. You don't need someone else to cling to. And NEVER base ANY of your big, life-altering choices on a boyfriend/girlfriend (you should only do that when you're married and you kinda have to). [by life-altering choices, I mean something like changing schools to be with your boyfriend or quitting school to live with your girlfriend.]
Well, I think that's all I have to say about this so far.
How do i know what love is? I read it in a dictionary...
And who are YOU to tell me i don't know what love is. YOU are the only point of view you will ever have on the truth of love at a young age. How can YOU tell if somebody else truly deeply feels love for another, if you are not inside their mind? Just because you haven't felt it at a young age (which i'm assuming you haven't, because you believe it doesn't exist), doesn't mean it's not there. And you will never be able to truly know until you feel it for yourself.
Besides, the point of my post was not on if love at a young age was real or not. It was saying that parents controlling their child's dating only stops the title, and not the feeling in which was initially sought after through their restrictions. Replace "love" with "have feeling for" or something if you just can't bring yourself to accept young love in order to listen to the REAL point of my post.
Your 16! and want to date. i am 18 and had only one girlfriend. we dated and wanted to get married. we got engaged and all he** broke loose. she lied to me about being a virgin. and being christian as a matter of a fact. I learned a valuble lesson. not to trust girls. the age most people get married is at the age of 25.now you just want to date and have a boyfriend right? well I beieve i would been able at your age to date but i have one thing to say to you. *wait* just have boy *friends* and dont get serious till your atleast 20. I know its hard but trust me. wait. have friends hang out dont do anything stupid, and be yourself. you have a long life ahead of you. learn your heart out. make goals for your life and live. and dont rush into anything. Like i said it will be hard knowing yout a teenager and you are going through a lot of emotions, and not to say hormones as well. but listen to your parents. *even though they seem like they dont know what they are talking about* they know how it was being a kid. they just act grown-up about it. believe me you will pull through.
My mother would be thrilled if i was dating! She's always saying she wishes I spent more time with my friends, she pretends that she is concerned about me, But I just think she wants me to leave her alone now and then. lol, j/k.
Unfortunately the guys arnt exactly beating down the door.... apparently they don't like dorky, fat, ugly, girls who are obsessed with their grades. I know, I know.... mind boggling.
I don't understand why parents try to set an age. Ok, if you love somebody, and they love you back, you ask them out and you're "dating". Dating is nothing more than a title, an extension of your feelings. Parents can't stop your feelings, so they try to stop "dating", thinking that it will stop the feelings. Really, it doesn't stop anything more than the title.
Couldn't you just start dating, and not tell your parents that he's ur boyfriend, or she's your girlfriend? And if they ask why you always are together and they always call you... it's just because you love eachother so much. I mean, they can't set an age when you are "allowed" to start loving. HaH!...
I kno' yer sorrow. Can't date til' I'm sixteen, either. Ma says I might be able to when I'm 14. (I SERIOUSLY DOUBT IT.) My Cuz started steady at 11. (SO UNFAIR!!!!!!!!!! )
quote: Not all guys, you need to expand your horizons.
Last time I expanded my horizons to find more guys, I ended up throwing a "feminine product" at a boy, I got my leg shut in a door, and I fell into a bowl.
Don't expand your horizons, Uptown, because all you'll find is more ****.
I can't date untill I'm 14, and in 9th grade.... Thats not really old, I geuss... 1 more year.. Until then I can just sneak out to the movies with them or something. hehe the fun never ends!!!
Oh, I don't think that all boys suck. I posted that when my ex-boyfriend kept bugging me. So it's not really all guys. It's just him. And the annoying kid I met in Tennessee. (I wrote his phone number down and told him I would call him, just so he would go away.)
Not all guys, you need to expand your horizons. Geeze...I'm 17 and have never dated, just because I'm a nice guy and I don't talk very much. For some reason girls don't like that...
My parents wouldn't let me date til i was 16. I know it sucks but i'm sure they are not doing it to punish you, they just want you to be more mature before you dive into dating. Talk to your parents about it. Try starting by telling them that you understand the reason for their rule. And then tell them what you think of the rule. Maybe they don't think you are mature enough to date and make good desisions. You may need to give them some reasons why they can trust you with dating. Try working out plan that works for both of you. Maybe bringing your date over to meet your parents. or having the first date be dinner with you parents, family. and if everything fails, tell them you will only be going on group dates.
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