How can a 15-year-old know if he or she is really in love?

Answer 1

One way of telling if you are truly in love is to look at the person you are with and picture having children with them and growing old with them. If these thoughts don't make you want to run the other direction then your off to a good start.

Believe me, at 15 years old, they're TOO YOUNG. The physical, emotional, and mental strain that they would go through would simply be overwhelming, leading to depression and other illnesses

A fifteen year old doesn't have the maturity to feel real love for someone. They can feel infatuation, though, and they probably have the two confused. Love is when you care about someone else more than you care about yourself. Infatuation is the feelings of uncontrolled passion for a person, and the almost painful urge to be with them at all times. Many people confuse infatuation with love or lust, but it's not the same as either. It's possible to be in love and be infatuated with someone at the same time... Nevertheless, no, a 15 year old is not mature enough to be in real love.

I believe that any person can fall in love. In today's society, many teenagers have been forced to grow up to handle the stresses of now. Even at 16 we have to take GCSES and choose our direction of life, therefore, why can we not be able to feel love? You can't classify how someone should feel regarding their age. Some teenagers have the same approach and deal with emotions similarly, but how they feel may alter depending how they are with a person, Even adults may feel something other than love; no one has been able to scientifically identify love. So, how can you tell when someone's able to feel it? Love is something that no one can describe but can feel once experienced. Although it may be hard for someone at 15, the reason is because they may find it hard to identify this feeling and understand what it really is as it hasn't been experienced before. But who is to dictate what they are really feeling? At 15 you have your whole life ahead of you, there is so much to do, yet to happen...you don't know how things would work out but if you can see yourself with one person whom you know, you love then that's a start. They should take more time realizing these, but can share life as they go along in time. Life is unpredictable, but you decide what you want to do in the end.

Well, I think that it is totally possible to be in love at 15. As previously said, you can't tell someone what they feel and what they don't feel. Though I think that most 15 year olds are not in love and view dating as something fun to do, some people are serious and they actually find their life partner at 15. It's possible to be in love at 15 - I know I was - and no one can tell me otherwise. I think that parents just don't want to deal with their children growing uo so quickly. In response to the answer stating that it would lead children into depression, I do not believe it would. I used to be depressed and what brought me out of that was finding God, but I still wasn't completely happy it wasn't until i fell in love. Then, I didn't concentrate on trying to make myself look good and trying to be fake. Instead I concentrated on being myself. When I fell in love I made certain promises to myself such as: I would never compromise who I am, I wouldn't kiss until the altar, I would always keep God in the center of my life and make sure I was doing what He wanted me to do this made me an overal happier person. And now that I'm (according to the other post) "mature" enough to feel love and know if I'm in love, I can tell you that the feelings I have now are the same ones i had back then. I love God and i have loved God since I was 14, and my love for God far exceeds my love for my husband. So, if I could love God so much at 14, then how could I not love another perso?. I definetly was in love at 14, and I would have gladly given up my life for Him, so don't go telling people that you can't be in love at 15 because it's not true, you can be - athough I do suggest only pursuing a friendship for awhile.

Love can be real at any age. The feeling just differs depending on age. If you are old and have seen it all, then love may be the appreciation of somebody you know is a rare find. When you are 15, love can be the thrill to see all you idealized before in one person. Love is ... if you think it is. That is good enough, even if it does not last a lifetime. Just enjoy.

Well, at 15, love can be easily confused with lust or infatuation. However, everyone matures at different speeds (and to different degrees, for that matter). Therefore, while I don't think that most "romantic" relationships in adolescence are true love, I do think it happens. If you're truly in love, you'll feel very differently about the person. You won't feel the same way you do when you have a crush on someone, or when you have the "hots" for someone. You'll find yourself caring very deeply about that person - true love has a lot to do with caring. You'll want to be around them, and they'll make you want to be a better person; they'll bring out the best in you. You may think you're in love, but when you truly are, you'll know it. It'll feel so different (and wonderful) from anything you've ever experienced that it will be impossible not to recognize it.

You can be in love at 15. I'm 15 and I am in love. It is not Lust or infatuation, Its love. I have felt all 3 of these things and I do know the difference. I do agree most teenage couples rush in to things way too fast because, yes, most relationships is just infatuation. I've dated a few guys and have never felt this way before. I didn't force myself to be in love, it just happened because hes just so amazing. I fell in love with him after about two years of knowing him (about 6 months in the relationship). We have been together almost two years and I love every single second of it. The feelings I have for him are unexplainable. "Love is when you care about someone else more than you care about yourself." someone posted earlier.. I do care about him more than anything in this world. Teenagers often take their own lives from love or being hurt so bad by someone they loved, does that not prove that we can care more about someone else than ourselves? I agree, Teenage love can lead to depression but that is just teenagers. Its not just relationships we get depressed about. And sometimes we get hurt so bad by someone and often ends badly but the exact same thing happens with adults. I've seen plenty of relationship issues between adult couples through out my life, often about stupid little things you would think an "immature teenage couple" would be fighting about and I personally believe that us young adults have a lot of advice to offer and can help couples like this get back on the right track. Because believe it or not we do have just the same amount of issues as adults do. Adults are constantly under the pressure of putting food on the table and keeping their family happy while teenagers are under the pressure of sex, drugs and alcohol etc with the concern and pressure to pass school at the same time. This can cause stress and depression. Also, if we are too immature to be in love, what makes a toddler mature enough to love their Mother the way they do? I realize that these two feelings are completely different but I believe that if you have the feeling of love towards your family, the feeling that makes you cry, laugh, play, hug, kiss your family members, you can be IN love with someone at any and every age just like you love your family at any and every age. I think that someone as young as 15 can fall in love with someone, its just that maybe sometimes they cannot handle certain issues as well as an adult would be able to handle it. Its to do with experience. Of course a 15 year old is not going to be able to handle love as well as a grown adult would be able to. They have experienced much more than we have. BUT I have seen adults do very immature things towards their partner or friends quite a few times. And I have given them advice on what I believe they should do. Trust me, I have that feeling inside. When you don't want to waste a second of your life without that one person, that amazing unexplainable feeling you have inside, when you smile just thinking of them and you want more than anything to be with them for the rest of your life (and can see it clear in your head). You think of them whenever you hear love songs and every night before you drift off to sleep to dream of them. And I KNOW the difference between love, infatuation and lust. Infatuation is being carried away unreasoned passion or love, like a crush. Ive had this feeling with plenty of guys and its no way near anything like love. Lust, pretty much just wanting to get in someones pants, which is common as a teenager with all the hormones lol. That's no way near love either. Don't tell me 15 year olds can't be in love. I am. I know I am.