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Does teenage love effect relationships later in life?

Has anyone been in love as a teenager, now using that / those experiences later in life / adulthood?

Has anyone had a relationship as a teenager that has lasted til adulthood?

Does teenage love last?

Statistics are more then welcome here. And I'd like to get some more adult point-of-views here.

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  • yes,
    With any life lesson, I would think it would be an accumulative thing. The more you have to draw upon, the more rounded your character is.

    I know very much so, that if not for my first real teenage love, I would not be as empathetically connected with people I encounter in new relationships. That first real love may not have made it to "adulthood" but she is still one of my closest friends, so I would say, even if the form of the relationship changes, it can last through anything.
    16%  Voted for by Molzahn, Weydon.
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  • Teenage Love
    Sure some people go on in life to marry their high school sweetheart but for the most part I feel teen love, often called puppy love, is a learning experience. Through trial and error we slowly learn not only about our own wants and needs emotionally but we also learn how to nurture our significant other emotionally. Teenager love teaches us about social structure within complex relationships. It teaches us about the different types of responses in such relationships and acceptable and unacceptable behavior in many different situations. We take the good experiences as well as the many heartbreaks and learn from them hopefully making our next relationship for both parties a better experience. You fall into lust but you slowly grown into love. It's a constant changing process that hopefully makes us better individuals as we continue to grow throughout our lives emotionally and physically. I think teen love plays a very important role in continued growth even past our teenage years and well into our senior years.

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    I personally think it would be good to study the number of successful marriages between those who experienced several teenage relationships verses those who experinced few if not none at all.
    16%  Voted for by Energizer Bunny, AthenaWisdom.
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  • my grandparents
    my grandparents on my mothers side of the family married when they were both 13 yrs old in 1926 my grandmother passed away shortly after their 75th wedding anaversary in 2001 so I would say they can last
    My grandfather is still with us
    Voted for by Dwn.
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  • Realist Speaking
    Who wasnt in love with somebody as a teenager (I never dated anyone but i sure as hell was in love)
    Voted for by Kazrith.
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  • Sometimes...
    I know of a couple of teenage relationships that ended in marriage that it still lasting. In one of the relationships the couple were friends (not lovers) since the age of 6. They became more than friends at round about 16 (meaning they went out). Of course I come from a culture where pre-marital sex was frowned upon by society (apart from it being against my belief), hence could you believe it - the thought never in crossed any of our minds. The temptation was most of the time simply not there. The thought only crossed my mind much later in life (but I suppose this is OT, although I would argue it does subtly have a much greater influence than we could know).
    Voted for by raseyusmy.
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  • we all start as idealists
    then life comes at us hard. those that are weak and arent willing to leaern the lesson will take on a "realist" stand. i say that because they arent realists they are selfish. stand on most of the opposite sex are going to hurt you and arent really good so i will just have some fun, aka the ppl who only care about sex in a relationship. in fact thats what they call a relationship, someone they have had sex with. then there are those that when life comes at them hard they themselves turn hard on everybody else. they are the guy haters or the woman haters all because of a heartache. they also arent realists. there are others that when life happens they happen. they use these expierence to further their knowledge, understanding, their wisdom of life. that is a realist. for the reality is that no matter what happens in life life still moves on whether you do or not. but if you are able to move along with it life seems more bearable. everything in life is a lesson that you can either learn now and move on or come to face with it again. life is learn a lesson, forget lesson, learn lesson again. now to answer your questions: ofcourse their social life with the opposite sex is always what their reltionship to them has been in the past, those are the lessons everybody goes by... its a simple "duh ofcourse"
    statistacly speaking most relationships dont last do to life taking them in different directions in order to better themselves.
    does their love last... a lasting relationship doesnt matter on whether its teen or not what matters is the love they had, a truely fallen in love couple will ofcourse last... but one for infatuation will not.
    as for me i have only had 2 girlfriends. the first didnt believe in long distance relationships. thelike my second is a very complicated. like my friend said "thats some jerry springer !@#*." since its a long story if you want to hear more please contact me i wouldnt want to bore everybody.
    Voted for by pnktrky.
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  • Of course it does
    Im only 19 so in theory I am still a teenager but the one boyfriend I had that actually mattered has completly changing the dating game. If he hadnt have screwed me over like he did then I know things would be different now. Im a little more picky about my guys now then I was then.

    It can last. At least from where Ive been sitting it can for awhile. I have two best friends that have had the same boyfriends since their junior/senior year and they are both sophmores now and both are planning to get married.

    There are things you learn those first few times you enter the dating pool. Not to trust so easy, not to be a whore, not to be jealous. Those kind of things.
    Voted for by Stepherz804.
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  • YES
    I met my husband when I was 14 and he was 17 we have been together for 11 yrs now. I think teenage love does lasts and can lasts forever if you love eachother with the deepest love of all. If you stay together through the problems and hardships then its true love. So yes teenage love can lasts and I think it makes you stronger as a person to be together and have that bond.
    Voted for by DayDreamerOf1982.
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  • It depends on what you want
    If youre looking for someone to take you off your feet everyday for the rest of your life, then hell no. Teenage love is all based on what we "want". Real actual love is based on what we need. As young people we sometimes don't know what real love is. How do we show it? How do we kow what it is? I think that our past relationships affect our future relationship, as with everything else in life. If we are enticed by someone and they end up hurting you, then we try and be aware of the ones that are like that. It dosen't really matter what the guy is really like at that point. We like what we like and what you end up with isn't always love. We are effected by everything! But mostly if it's real... sometimes you can't let go.
    Voted for by Subway.
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  • Depends...
    Most times it does change future relationships, you're either more careful with your choices, more reckless or you make the same bloody mistake more than once.
    It all depends on the relationship the person had.
    Voted for by pwincessovfantasy.
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