Why do teens fall in love so easily?

Wake up, get dressed. Go to school, learn, complain, come home and work some more. Eat, sleep, and repeat. Give me something to break the rhythm. Anything. Oh? What's this? read more

Adults are often inclined to be a little dismissive when a young teenager claims to have fallen in love, but teens fall in love for the same reasons adults do. When a teen experiences a combination of physical attraction, emotional intimacy and the intention to be committed to the relationship, what he's experiencing is love, regardless of his age. read more

So the guideline for parents is: take falling in love and in-love breakups seriously with your adolescents. Don’t dismiss them as just the rough and tumble of “puppy love.” If your son or daughter in high school is jilted in an in-love relationship, you should put that young person on a watch for any signs of a depressive or aggressive response. read more

Since they are so emotionally vulnerable, they tend to fall in love easily. It might not always be love, maybe they are just attracted to the other person. But its natural to have such feelings and nothing to worry about. read more

Imagine, if you will, that there is a knob in every person for how easily they will fall in love. Imagine that this knob is completely randomly set, initially, but your setting influences your children’s settings. read more