Is it just me or does that phrase seem to mean a lot more then we think it does? Sorry peoples... I'm a thinker. Like you know you go out with some one for couples days and your like I'm totally and completely in love. But the question is do kids our age know what love is. And before you guys start harping 'bout it sayin' 'course we know 'twat love is. But do you really? Is it that seemingly quolt you get when you kiss someone you really like and the contact of your bodies touching? Could there be more to it then that? Opinions please.

As of now I like my boyfriend a lot, but I do not consider myself in love with him. As for me, I don't think I've ever felt real love. I suppose it takes a while...

No doubt everyone who reads is going to think I'm babbling 14 yr old fool! Oh well alas that 'tis fine by me.

If you can put a person before yourself, you love them. I never think about my gf before myself, so I guess the whole love thing is out of the question.

yah theword love has no meaning now a days

Love doesnt come overnight with me, i dont even love a friend properly until i properly know them.

I'm 19 almost 20 and i have had 2 serious relationships. The first of which lastest 2 and a half years and I have been with my current boyfriend for 3 and a half years. So yes, I definately believe I know the true meaning of love. However, I completely agree with you... when you're younger and more immature you think that someone you fancy or someone you have one kiss with, you think you're totally "in love" with them. But you're not. It's more of a phrase when you're young... It's true meaning starts to show once you have a long term relationship at a more mature age.

I dont feel as if ive ever loved, been with my girlfriend over a year now and shes my ideal woman mentally and physically, could easily spend the rest of my life with her.

But love...i dunno, just don't get it.

You don't feel like you would do anything to protect her? Your heart doesn't sink when you see her hurt or upset? You don't find it impossible to imagine life without her? You don't miss her every second of every day?

To all : Trust me, you know when you're in love. If you have doubts then you definately aren't.

I admit, I'm in love.

By your other post I'm assuming you're 14, so this doesn't really apply to me as much as I'm not in the group of "kids our age" as I'm older than you by 3 years.

Also, another reason why it doesn't apply to me, I don't fit any of it really. The whole claiming to be in love after a few days thing, nope. I've been with my boyfriend for going on a year and a half, so yeah, a lot more than a few days. I also KNOW that I love him and I AM in love with him. It took us a little while to feel and say it as well.

You're right though, love is more than the feeling when you kiss someone or the contact of bodies touching, as you put it. It's much more than that. I don't believe people around your age, 14 and younger, 15, 16 even and even people my age and older, but especially 15 and younger, I don't believe people that young know what love is, at least, not in the romantic sense. I think they often confuse it for infatuation because of how young they are.

I feel every single one of those about her.

I don't think the majority of teens know what love is. At that age, "I love you" is just a phrase, and doesn't have the deep meaning as for say a mature couple who actually is in love. I'm not saying teens cannot love, so don't misunderstand.

Crushes make him/her absolutely perfect for you, but when your in love, they're no longer completely perfect in your eyes. You recognize their flaws, And yet you still want to spend the rest of your life with them.

My favourite thing about her is the bags under her eyes :>

Anyway, i rarely say "i love you" to her, had been dating 11 months before i had.

Very skeptical of love.

its normal to be skeptical. there isnt an exact definition of love so you always wonder if what you have is it. but i agree completely with all of those feelings that yellowdaffodil listed

im currently am in love.
and i just kind of realized it one day.
maybe its different for other people, but one day it just kind of made sense and i realized what i felt was real.