What is the real age to know what Love is?

You know when your parents, elders, or just anyone says "You're only <insertagehere>, you shouldn't know what love is yet."
What is the real age to actually know what love is?

 

I don't think its age as such, more to do with mental maturity. Especially since girls mature faster than boys.

 

The real age is 21 years old and a half.

 

There's no definite age. It's really moreso if you're mentally and emotionally mature enough to actually understand it.​

 

That relationship sounds like a trainwreck, no offense. A father at 16? You need to be more careful with your contraception.

 

There isn't really an age. Basically what's been said before, it can depend if someone is mentally and emotionally ready to understand what it is. If you say "I love you." in every relationship you've been in, I honestly don't think you'd understand what love is. That's my opinion.​

 

Age is nothing when there is no maturity.

Long as you're not like, a baby or little kid I mean. That's...a bit disturbing. Proper maturity usually comes at late teens and early adults for some people, and most others around late 20's.

This is all speculation of course.

 

Any age. Love isn't just what you think of your good ol' fuck buddy but it's pretty much greater positive feelings like the love between friends, the love of a family, the love of lovers, etc. It's really of a question of which age do you learn which love at and that it really depends on the person themselves. It's not like everyone wakes up on their 12th birthday and they suddenly feel love.

 

I am misinform.

 

I think that age is an issue,but not entirely.
Since everyone in this thread is saying how you have to be mentally and emotionally ready,I'm gonna add;growing up has lots to do with it.

If you are let's say;9 years old...I doubt you are metally or emotionally mature enough to know how to be in love with another person.(Besides family members)
But when you are 12 or 13 years old,you have a bit more experience with people yet,and you might be ready for a relationship.

It also depends on the person.
I think that if the person is mature for their age,it also has a lot to do with it.

I don't doubt that the older the person,the more experience with other people will increase and they will have more life lessons,and different ways to handle a relationship.
Although when my parents say;I'm not old enough I think they're wrong.
It doesn't mean you can't feel love.I think it means more or less that you aren't ready to be in love,because you aren't mature enough yet.

Anyone can love,it's just how you love;that's where maturity comes in.

Sorry,I disagree.
It depends on the person.
Not the gender.

 

What? I'm saying not everyone understands different types of love at the same age.

 

There's no such thing as the real age at which a person knows love. It depends on the person. We all know love, feel love. But understanding love we gain through maturing, and not everybody matures because they hit puberity and stuff. They can mature through their own experiences.

 

There are different types of love but I'm assuming it's the one about having a significant other and if you know you truly love that person or not.

Maturity mentally really is the telltale thing to determining if you actually love someone or if it's a passing craze, attraction and simply hormones. I cannot and would not really apply a specific 'age' because different people mature at different rates. I know people in their 30s that still think that obsession = love and that tv just has all the answers with their stupid reality shows. I have some friends in their 20s, as I am, and they just bounce around between relationships and will say they 'love' someone but don't really mean it. And yet I've known some 18 year olds that were pretty tight on what it means to actually feel love and not just raging emotions of passion.

I figure when you realize the following things, regardless of what age you are, you know that you love someone.
- You know the other person cares about you equally so it's not one-sided.
- You are attracted to the person, but the body is not the only reason why.
- You respect the other person and their opinion really matters to you. If you disagree, you both just agree to disagree but you heard one another out first.
- You don't try to change the person and let him/her change to be better on his/her own mostly and you care and improve yourself some as well. It just happens naturally because you have respect for the other person and compassion.
- You assist the other person and that person assists you and you are the person's close -friend- and not just a lover.
- You aren't 'fanatic' about having to hang all over the other person all the time and know what they are up to.
- You trust the other person and that person trusts you.

Those things to me are important telltale signs of 'love' being love and not just infatuation and not just desperation to make something happen out of potentially nothing. I think some people learn earlier than others do because as I said earlier, I know adults that just don't get it.

 

I agree with some other replies. It can be at any point. It's all about being mature.

 

I was listening to this song on my iPod, and I figured it would be relevant to the discussion.

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Of course it depends on the person- but it's a general fact that girls mature mentally sooner than boys on average.

 

Actually, that seems to be leveling in the last years, the reason women matured faster was because they weren't given the same liberties as men, and so they resigned and learned that life isn't this and that, thus maturing faster. Sure that still stands; women probably do mature faster than men, and that's a fact, that's what generally happens.

I think that love for another(not parental, or friendship love) is mostly a commitment, and a feeling, at the same time. If you're not committed to the feeling, then you can't really be in love.

Most of the time people accuse others of it just being lust, but sometimes this is not so...we should be careful about what we tell people in regard to the ones they "love" maybe they do love each other, and it's not lust. It's important to distinguish.

 

It was a joke :|

 

I agree with a lot of you. I don't think there is an age. It's maturity and responsibility and being ready in these areas that causes one to know what love is and how it feels. Comes from experience, as well.​

 

Age is just the age of a person or thing. It has little effect on the behaviour habits that person has. Love is one thing that is not affected by age.
If in any way it is, surley it grows with time.

Age doesn't tell when a person knows when they know what Love is. Love comes from the experiences that person has. When that person is finally Loved, and finally Loves, then they can truley know what Love is.