At what age do you become capable of falling in love?

At what age do you become capable of falling in love?


Me 18

 

In love? I think as soon as hormones kick in and you feel attraction to others.

I always question myself though. Like, was I really in love? Did I actually love that person, or just think I did? I know I think I've been in love and believed I was in love at the time, but was I really? Seems like if I was, I'd still be with that person.

 

I think there's forms of love. I was "in love" with a girl in first grade lol. But my first heartbreak kind of love was in junior high school, so early adolescence.

 

10-11. I was happy!

 

In my opinion I don't think ppl should date til 18

so it last longer

 

It might be different for everyone, because people find their first loves at different times in their lives. I'd say teens.

 

Why do you think it's okay to oppress people that way? And adulthood is no guarantee that it'll last longer.

 

It depends, in my opinion. I would have to look at how mature the people are and understand the difference between lust and love.

 

I think for it to be true love you have to be willing to make sacrifices for the other. That takes a level of maturity that even a lot of adults don't have. There's a difference between infatuation and love.

 

16 to never.
Young adults often mistaken lust for love. The differences are blurry when you’re young. But a divorce will teach you the difference.

 

You certainly summed that up well.
You obviously stopped and realised that lasting love is more than just jumping up and down in bed.

 

My love of opera has been dangerously near to a divorce on a few occasions, even after 45 years..

 

Ha! Ha!

 

This was the latest culprit. Our daughter woke up thinking that I was demolishing the house.

 

I think there’s world of difference between getting to love someone over time because you like and are attracted to them and falling in love.

The first and only time that I ever actually fell head over heels so strongly in love with someone that I physically couldn’t resist it was at the age of 35 years.

It was mind blowing. Everything that had gone before just paled into insignificance. The woman and I both felt it at the same time. We didn’t even need to tell each other, we both just knew. I’ve never felt anything like it before or since. It made me reckless

By any objective measure, she couldn’t hold a candle to my girlfriend at the time, who had the looks, intelligence, was younger, had a high powered job, etc. I guess it was chemical. It led to amazing sex that I still think of fondly to this day.

Yet it didn’t last forever. I was destined to marry someone else who has turned out to be the love of my life and mother of my children.

For a year after we split up she’d occasionally come back into my life. She only needed to snap her fingers and I’d jump into bed with her.

In the first year or so of my marriage, my wife sensed the power the woman had had over me and feared she’d steal me back.

 

I guess its different for everyone when love finally kicks in.. When it does,ita beutiful knowing you have someone!!

 

Does it include puppies? I know I loved all of them including the first one I was introduced to ( that I remember) I was about 4 years old.