Too young to love???!!!

Ok, I'm only here to ask you all an important question. Do you truly think that age determines whether you know what love is? Does someone really have to be 'of age' to say ' I love you' and mean it?
I just don't think so, and I don't mean to sound to rude, but people telling me that I don't know what love is, is just unnerving. No one can ever feel what I feel for my bf and nobody has any right to tell me what love is or that I can't feel it...
So if you're one of those people, just take this into thought please.
Anyway sorry if it seemed I freaked out too much, but it seems like a very important issue - everywhere I look there's someone telling me how I feel. Does anyone else have this problem?

I think that anyone can love at any age. I fell in love and then had my heart broken and I still love him more than anything. Don't let those people tell you how you should and shouldn't feel. They obviously don't know what true love is if they think you are too young. People tell me all the time that I can't really be in love with him, but I have learned to just ignore them. You can't help how you feel.
-Sami

Thanks guys. It's good to know I don't stand alone. I just felt a need to spread the word, hoping that others would learn to respect everyones feelings... Love hurts, but I still hope that everyone has a chance to love, and love with all their heart.

I completely agree with you. I think sometimes kids who are like 13 and 14 and have been with someone for like 1 month who claim they are in love are full of rubbish, however i think that if you are mature enough..you can fall in love at any age. People try and put an age on love but its stupid..realistically some 25 year olds aren't mature enough for love. Its all about maturity i think.

agreed with ismail, but only to some extent. i dont know. i dont think that there is any real age that you have to be to actually love. fuck, even infants can love, can they not?

yeh age doesnt matter.. there's just a certain maturity and form of love that changes over the years.
Dont let people's opinions offend you. you have a right to what is in your heart..no one can chage that.
take care xxooxo

I gree with steph. does'nt matter how old you are you always know what love is.

I agree with Ismail

Love. I miss it. Sure, every single one of my friends and family loves me... even my enemies, but oh God I miss the one I gave my heart to.

A few months of crying, a couple poems, some artistic thoughts, and oh baby were they mine lol. *dont read that if you know me!!!

I think that love's sweet. yeah, ismail, way to show =). I used to have a "boyfriend" when I was in kindergarten and first grade. It was sooo cute but turned out as just friends love when i accidentally punched him. >< ahh

I also had a bf when I was 11 and when they forgot about me I got a new one. My most loved bf was Ryan, but hey, old memories can't bring him back right?

I think that love is something beautiful. If you have the passion, it's love. There are so many kinds of love, there's too many to count. But don't ever forget the ones who truly love you, for they won't leave when you feel everything's hopeless.

Love is not by age. If you compare love... it is then that someone gets put down.

ok i cant be botehred to read da rest of da posts but my opinion, is your never to young to love, when you say you 'i love you' and you mean it, then you mean it...
ellie x

Who are we to determine who is too young to love?!
I do agree that the age of eleven is indeed a little too young to be "in love" but that doesn't mean that this child can't love.

A newborn baby loves his/her mother, do we think that that baby can not love yet? NO we don't, we know it can..

Everyone can love someone, and everybody does love someone... The age has nothing to do with that

age has nothing to do with love...
but maybe when we meet the one we love the most in our lives when we're a bit younger we may do stupid things...

my boyfriend tried to suicide, if he tries again and anything happens to him, i will follow him... some ppl will think its stupid.. but i dun give.. hes turninng 18 in 2 weeks and im turning 16 in 10 days...

hey im 11 and i am sooo in love. I dont think you can put a age on love cuz love is a feeling......you cant stop you feelings if you dont think your old anough....love will find you when your ready to find it.

i don't think it matters how old you are. i get so pissed when people say you have to be a certain age before you know what it is!!

It depends who you are. In my case, I developed early and young, so I fell madly in love with someone at 10. I'm 14 now and its a different person, but they love me and I would do anything for them

Luv Scarlet xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

i soooo agree i hate it when u love someone and they say "ur to young to understand love" i mean how the heck do they no??

This post really relates to what I'm going through right now. I've been with my bf for almost a year now and yes, I'm only 15 but if what I feel for him isn't love then I'd really like for someone to tell me what it is. The problem I have now is with my mom. First off she doesn't really like my bf cause she found out that him and I had sex. Some of you may have read my post in here a long time ago about that. Although everything is 'okay' now she still thinks that we don't have true feelings for one another. She tells me I'm too young to know what love is and that we're not going to last.

I know! My mom is still getting all blahed about that (yeah I know, 'blahed' my favourite word ever...sorry 'bout the lack of vocab. guys hehe.) I mean I guess in my situation since I met my bf online she has a reason to worry, but she's denying everything I feel for him! She calls him 'the stranger' all the time, or 'the young man you have a crush on' . It's sooo not like that and it's got me so frusterated! I know what a crush is, and I know this is much more than a crush. If this isn't love, then I don't want love. I want him, I need him. Every breath I take I think of him...Well I'm sure you guys know what I'm talking about. Why can't people just empathize and look into one anothers eyes, and SEE that I'm not just a typical teenager. She's judging me by my age, not who I am... Anyway I think I'm probably venting a little too much now, it's time for me to be on my way. Thanks for everyones thoughts and support!

Yeah, I know exactly what you are saying. I actually fell in love with my ex, so so so in love that I would have died just to give him one more second of life, that would have married him and well yeah obviously he didn't feel the same b/c he left me. He has a new girl and he is a huge jerk to me and yet somehow I still can't stop loving him. I was crying the day he got a new girlfriend, I was at basketball practice and then I just left and went to the bathroom and just cried my eyes out. My best friend (also on the team) followed me and just let me cry on her. (she knew what happened,) and then she said, it's not fair for you to find love like this, to really fall in love at such an age... and she was so right. I had fallen really really really hard for him and I still love him and even though I want to hate him for hurting me, I can't and I don't think I ever will. I see him and his new girl kissing and hugging and it kills me to the core. I don't think I can ever love again.

-Mikochan