Adolescent Love and Dating Relationships

Many adolescents, when they consider themselves in love, find it literally impossible to believe that they still have a lot to learn and understand about love. At the adolescent level, dating and love relationships are often mistaken with the similar notions of lust and infatuation. However, each of these concepts is very different in terms of the feelings involved and the intimacy of relationship and only a comprehensive understanding of all such concepts can help one determine if they truly love someone.

While lust occurs mainly when you feel sexually attracted towards someone, infatuation involves idealizing someone and feeling as though that person has taken over your whole world. Moreover, both infatuation and lust occur when you do not know much about the person you are attracted to and want to get familiarized with him/her.

Quite different from these is the experience of love, in which there is a compatibility seen in the feelings and actions shared by the couple. In adolescent love and dating relationships, the occurrence of love and associated feelings are a combined result of all the thoughts the person has experienced in his/her childhood. Moreover, the way people express their love is also influenced a great deal by all the interactions they had had with their family, relatives, and friends.

Every love or dating relationship is mostly a blend of various positive feelings including joy, happiness, exhilaration, and excitement, and negative feelings including insecurity, anxiety, anger, nervousness, frustration, and jealousy. However, since you are an adolescent, remember that it is quite common for you to experience such negative feelings in your love and dating relationships and these very experiences will later help you find your true love in life.

Just make sure that in addition to spending some precious moments with your date, you also save some time for yourself. This time will help you to introspect your relationships in a much better way so you don’t get swallowed by your date’s identity.

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