At what age did you first fall in love?

I was five and she was four. Coming from Finland and knowing virtually no English, she was trapped in a land where nobody understood her and she understood nobody. For reasons best known to the fates, I was gifted the same inadequacy. But I understood more from a look that passed across her face than I have ever understood since. I had no interest in girls until years later. It was just her. She was called Outi and it was love. My life became two lives; the time spent with her, and the time spent without her. We were constantly in trouble with our parents for never being where we should be, missing meals, coming home late. It was just too hard to part.

I used to think she'd brought the Finnish weather because the winter in which she arrived was so bitter they closed the school for two months. We were free to explore the strangeness of everything together; strange to her as a foreigner and strange to me as I'd never seen a landscape transformed by so much snow. Those quiet hours are the only time my life has made complete sense. They exist now only as fragments of a dream I'm desperate to get back to, so different and so long ago, it is falling away from the edge of my memory.

One day she just wasn't there any more. And she was never there again. I found out months later that her father's contract had ended and he'd taken the family back to Finland. It was a difficult time and the only person I wanted near me was the one person whose absence was causing feelings I didn't understand. The weather improved the moment she left and carried on getting warmer into the hottest summer on record. The grass grew faster than you would believe. Over my head until it was like a jungle with a beautiful plague of ladybirds. I would lie on my back in the dessicated, straw-like crop, hidden from everything but the sky, narrowing my viewpoint as one half of a couple and refocussing as a circle of one.

For years, when it snowed, I wondered if she was near. If she was trying to make her way back. I spent long hours in our favourite places, as that's where she'd instinctively turn up too. In the end, being there only reminded me that I was there alone, and so I stopped going back. I hate to think she might be there even now, waiting for me, and that I'm the one who has seemingly forgotten. I hate it so much that I often tell this story, allowing it to billow around the internet in the hope that she learned enough English to read these words and to know what she meant to me. What she still means to me.

i want to keep reading ^^

I'd take a pretty good guess that more than half of those who said that they have fallen in love under 10, are currently 7 years old. Giggling away with their best friend because they have been going out with a greasy little boy for 6 whole hours.

I fell in love at first sight when I was 10. For ages I resisted calling it love, because I thought that being in love was just for grown-ups and besides I didn't want to have sex or anything, which I thought was a necessary defining symptom, but after a few years of hanging on his every word, crying at his every misfortune, feeling breathless at every mention of his name, staring out of windows for hours just thinking about him, etc. I came to decide it probably was love. In our 20s I dared to write and tell him and he took it in very good part considering he's straight and I'm a (bisexual) guy. Today we're Facebook friends. I still love him, though I've fallen for 5 others since. When I truly fall in love I don't fall out of it again, so my loves accumulate.

I was fifteen and I'm still in love with him.

Dee
xox

Five or six. Nathaniel Bodenstat. We were best friends, and his mom was friends with mine, so we ran into each other a lot. Liked him all the way through elementary, but found someone who actually liked me back in middle school.

Nathaniel's still my Facebook friend though. :)

We were best friends since 8 years old. I fell in love with him at 14, he fell in love with me at 22. We never told each other until this year. We laughed and are still best friends to this day.

in love? or what teenagers mistake for love?

laughing my ass off at people who think they fell in love at 0-17

love is fake

I was a really emotional kid, used to think i found the love of my life every time I had a crush on someone.
Thank God, this bullshit is over.

I doubt I know how to define love and not sure if it really exists. At any rate I don't really care.

I've been in love only once. At age 17 I met my first gf. I've never had the confidence most guys have and I've always been strange,odd,and weird.....from what ppl tell me. Most ppl judge me for the odd things I say and do but she didn't. I was always wild and crazy but she calmed me down. I wouldve done anything for her. At first I was confused cuz my stomach felt funny when we were together and my hands wud start to sweat and shake uncontrollably. She jus made me so nervous. I knew it was love cuz we hadn't done anything together other than kiss. I couldn't get her out of my head.....nor did I want to. We would fall asleep on the phone every together. I. Black and she was wite and her father called me a "nigger" all the time and called her a "nugget lover". The feeling she gave me was worth the racism fro
her dad. We were only togeter for six months. On my b-day we were supposed to be together but I ended up getting sick. Idk y she got mad and stopped talking to me that nite. She ended up cheating on me with two guys in the same nite. I 4gave her cuz she felt worse about than I did. She left me a wk later. She told me how much she hated me and that she never loved me. I never cry but this completely broke me down. The last thing she said to me was that she hated me. My last words to her were that "u can hate me all u want but I still love u". This was two yrs ago and I've been single since. I went thru depression for the last two yrs. I would go thru all of that from the start again. If that's what love is then I was def in it.

Well, my opinion on the situation is that it is possible to fall in love at any age. But, it is true that a lot of times what we mistake for 'love' at young ages is just candy coated bullshit, simply for the fact that we are desperate to finally find the thing many others have braggec about. When you're young, you want the experiences of someone who's older, so that we can figure out life pretty easily. Unfortunately, it never works out that way.

I was 20 when I felt in love and I'm still in love with him. I'm older then 25 now.

What's the point? My one true love won't even respond back to my fan letters (and Scarlett J., I know you read them). <3

You could fall in love at almost any age, we're social beings.

You should probably cut off your foot...

When I understood that to have sex I had to pretend to be falling in love.
Now I know "Love" is just an obsession.
I have never been in love.I was just fourteen years old and a dumb kid.So I thought it was love.

And that's basically what love is..
Never wanting to run out of guaranteed sex.
And willing to do anything for the girl spreading her legs wide eagle.Or promising to do it.

I had my first crush when I was eight years old. The first time I felt feelings closer to what love really feels like, I was twenty. It wasn't mutual, though. It never had the opportunity to grow into something substantial.

Since then, I've had strong feelings of affection towards the men I've been in committed relationships with, which I called "love." I believed that watered down feeling was the best I could hope for. I didn't think I was capable of feeling more. I wondered if maybe I was defective somehow and incapable of feeling the sort of love that others claimed to feel. That was my reality for a long time, until many years later when I fell passionately in love with a special man. Then I understood I was capable of feeling more. That was an isolated incident and I doubt I will ever feel it again, the probability of it is slim.

Well my first crush was when I was 10. There were plenty of crushes after that. The first time someone ever liked me back though didn't happen until recently. And I am 19. And I don't know if it's love or not but it feels wonderful

I was 9, he was 10. I met him in church we greeted each other! We looked at each other's eyes so deeply!
Till now I have a feeling of passion towards him.

I wish I could have fucked MaryTylerMoore back when I was younger.

I had a crush on 2 boys when I was 5. That was like 2 boys I fell in love with at 5 years old! (I'm 18 now.) The first 1 was Ethan and the second 1 was Hassan.

I was 11. For 5 years of mixed messages from his side I confronted him. But it was too late cause he had a girlfriend. From that moment of pure pain I took only a few days to move on. I'm glad with the way things turned out, because if that had not happened I wouldn't have met the most important person in my life right now.

Love is hard, and even though most people might argue it's harder for a kid I don't think so. Being a kid your head and heart are so much clearer. When you're an adult it's only expected to have issues, and it's so much harder to trust. Both of those things can ruin any relationship.

What do you mean by saying that you think it's bad or funny for people to fall in love, or think they fell in love at 0-17? Laugh at us all you want, you'll never be able to break the force some of us have in us, plus, we're just wanting to know how it feels like to fall in love.

the word love is fake so quit using it
never i liked some girls but not loved
them

age 14.

His name was Rishi Sharma. I was nine years old. He never thought of me as anymore than a friend, but I loved him more than life itself. Until I replaced him for Jordan Rose the next year or so, that is.

i was 11 when i had a gf :D

i was 15 years old..i was very young & been with my ex for almost 5 1/2 years years..age @ 14-19. It was really rough & hard tough situation. Things happen for a reason.

If by love you mean lust for, then 14.

waaait...LOVE? Or just WANTING TO FUCK THE SHIT OUTTA SOMEONE?

I have not yet. Nor will i ever.

Haven't yet I'm hoping I will soon, although I'm only 16.

My first love or I would say first ever feeling that I didn't know what was it but it was something I didn't know and not I know was at middle school, my teacher:)
She was young and gorgeous!