My case is extremely rare. I met my husband when I was 14 and he was 17. We've been together ever since. It will be 19 years ago this July. It is rare, but it can happen.

I believe that at that age you can feel sincere love. True love is a different thing to different people. At that age there's still a lot to learn about life and the other sex, in my opinion.

i'm not sure. i don't think, in most cases, that it is though. it may *feel* true... but it's not. because you don't really learn for real what love is until you've had to stick with someone for a long time. mostly what you experience in early teen years is lust and infatuation. infatuation is a heady, intense feeling that causes people to sometimes make less than wise decisions about things and relationships in general. it's not a rational feeling at all... but it's fun to go through. love lasts alot longer than infatuation, and it's action and commitment. it's more than a verb than an emotion, although feelings of love can be very strong. people nowadays confuse love with the warm-fuzzies they get when they're around a person they care about. but what they don't understand is that love transcends those good feelings and sticks around even when things suck. you don't always feel it, but it's always there. alot of people give up or assume they're 'not in love' with the person they've commited to just because those warm fuzzies disappear for a while. they come and they go, and emotion is never a good thing to base decisions on. do most young teens have the maturity to realize this? no.

For me, at that age it was just infatuation and interest in the opposite sex was just beginning. We are still going through the biggest changes of our lives at this age. A lot of maturing still needs to occur. I guess it happens for others.

it can be it really depends on the person but only they know how they really feel or felt

I think that no one except the person can truely know. It most certainly feels like love to the person involved. You may not think that a young person can really know what love is, but they can love their parents, friends, siblings and pets, so to the child, it IS love, as they know it to be.