Can teens understand true love?

I agree with you in that it depends on the person, or people rather. I don't really think anyone can truly understand true love until they have experienced it themself, so I would say that if teens experience true love, they can understand true love.

no! i have a 17 year old daughter (also a 13 year old one who is gearing up) but she has no clue what love means, but that being said, i personally think she is pretty immature for her age.

Hi Sara! It depend upon person to person. Many do not get to meet their love throughout their life and many find their love when they are young and in teens. Luck also plays an important part in finding one's love.

I think it really depends on the teen and their views. At the time I thought I knew what love was, but looking back I don't think I really knew. It's hard to quantify what love is at any age. I think it all depends on the person and their maturity level.

I think you are right...depends on the person. I think anyone can find love at any age. I do know a couple of them that also met in school and stayed married for a long time...but it totally depends on the person and the circumstances.

I fell in love when I was 17, I am now 19 and I'm still in love with the same guy as 2 years ago. I think teenagers can be in love, why not? I'm not saying that all of the teenage couples are, but I definitely know some who have a future together.

Understanding love is extremely complex and there are many minute parts to it. You have to be intelligent and mature. You have to be aware of the realities of personal relationships. You have to understand all the possibilities, both good and bad, and how to conduct yourself through them. But above all you have to have a deep awareness and understanding of yourself. You have to know what you want and what you want in a person, in a relationship and in life. You have to know what your limits and expectations are. You have to be aware and able to understand your own feelings and emotions; attraction, crush, infatuation, like, lust, platonic love, appreciation, comfort, love etc. And you have to be able to juggle every single one of these things at once, all the time. Now it's POSSIBLE for a teenager to capable of the above, but it's very rare. The vast majority of people learn these skills through experience and self-exploration.

since i got married at 17 and still am married at 12 years later i would say that some teens can understand the full meaning of love but its few and far between

I think it depends on the person too. This woman at work has been married since she was 16 and she is close to retirement age now. My grandparents were together for years too and there was a bit of an age difference between them..I think she was 18 and he was close to 30. It worked out great for them.

I don't think teens can understand true love. They think they do but in the long run they don't! Alot of teenagers are very naive when it comes to love and some think they know everything about love! Then there are people in all other age groups who don't know what love true love is either! Some people find true love at any age and will be together forever. I never have found true love abd never will,sorry to say! It isn't written in the stars for me!

Like you said, it all depends on the person. I fell in love at sixteen and was engaged a year later. For most people that age, they aren't mature enough to recognize the individuality of people (bullying in high school, etc.). At that point, however, I was already working and I also had a real estate business under my belt that I'd started the year before. A lot of it has to do with maturity and how quickly it comes to a person. I'm twenty-two now, and my husband is twenty-seven. We are both extremely mature for our ages...we both have building retirement accounts, and have paid off twenty percent of our home in the year and a half we've lived here. For the entire six years we've been together, that love I felt at sixteen has existed. It wasn't puppy love, like some sixteen year olds can feel; it still exists, and it's what holds our marriage together. I think a lot of teenagers have the feeling that a relationship is about THEM...they wonder, "What can I get out of this?" A relationship should be about what YOU can offer to your partner before you even consider what you could get out of it. Most kids under eighteen are selfish and cannot understand that concept. Like you mentioned, there are people that belong to generations before mine who still don't get the concept of an equal relationship. They could be selfish, immature, unwilling to settle, etc...and people like that exist at every age.

Teen's brains aren't fully developed yet. Because of this and their lack of experience I don't believe a teen will understand "true love" but I think they can be in love. Whether or not they understand they pick someone who can or will respect them is another story.

i think like you, it depends on the people.i havent met my true love yet and im 38. i was with someone for 12 and a half years and that didnt work, he wasnt the one for me

I think, teens cant understand the true love because of the maturity prroblem, even i have to say that sometimes mature people also cant understand true love, the sudden affection is not a true love and most of the people cant understand it and often love marriges becomes fail,

I'm sure you're right, it depends on the person. It also helps, I'm sure, if the person had parents that were in a relatively normal, stable relationship also.

I think that this can certainly depend. Some might understand what it is, and know what it is. However, I would think that not all have the same understanding that an adult might have of what love is. i think that it all depend on the situation and the individuals involved.

Good Day! I think they still don't. No matter how mature they look, there are still things they don't understand about love. They still need to gain knowledge about love as they grow old but as of now, those teenagers who pretends that they know what to do, that they know about love, they're wrong. They have to pass a lot of problems about love. They mustn't pretend to be matured.

Hi Behen, I see people being together for many many years and yet it seems as if they are just starting being together. Understanding people and true love are two things that are the most difficult and often one lifetime seems less. For those who claim they understand "True Love" - I ask them what their definition of that is? And often find their definition/understanding quite different than that of mine which makes me feel it is subjective. If it is, then anyone can understand they way he/she interprets and say - yes, I am in true love. For me true love is selflessness - no expectations from the other, giving and never hoping to get back. It is something that is a source of power and confidence too.

I don't really think that there is a right age when people understand what the true meaning of love is/ what true love is. It depends on the person, some become more mature than others at a young age. I myself, as a teenager don't really know what true love is. My true love for now is my parents and no one can defeat their love for me, except God.

Yes, I'm 17 and i believe teens can understand true love. I'm not just saying that because I'm a teenager(I realize that some teens' definition of true love is s.e.x and a 1 month relationship). My definition is revolving around God. God is the centerpeice of my 2 year and 8 month relationship. I'm in my senior year and my relationship has survived the highschool test. God is love and if two people believe that and believe that God put them together and the two people both put God as the center of their lives, they can have a true love. True love is when the giddiness of the new relationship fades away and you still stick with each other. True love is when you want to l.a.y in b.e.d with your partner to hold them and lay upon their chest just to hear their heart beat and know you're the only one that can be that close. True love is when two people can be best friends and truely feel they can't live seperate without a fulfilled life. I know what true love is. My boyfriend and I plan to marry each other. I realize that the chance of true love coming along for a person is very very rare...but I am lucky enough to experience that. True love is a mircale!!! If a teen can realize those things and put their heart and soul into it, not lust, then they truely can understand true love. I know people in there 40's who have divorced over and over and will never know what TRUE love is. A person can't completely understand it unless they are lucky enough to experience it.