why do young people today fall in and out of love easily?

@EdnaReyes (2622)
Philippines
October 21, 2010 5:47am CST
My teenage students have lots of stories on how they fall in and fall out of love, there were so many twist and reasons but one thing I discovered was that they did fall in and out of love in a very short period of time and seems they're not regretting it all! Are all young people out there like them?
13 responses
21 Oct 10
Sadly it's a trend. I somewhat compare it to people who change phones often, as the days of seeing someone for who they're appear to of become very rare. People want to be with someone who's different, exciting and most common these days "popular" or in with the right crowd. Personally I think teens rush into things far too easily, I met my wife when I was 16 and I haven't once looked back since. (well apart from thinking about how special and lucky I was to find her) Where I live it seems young girls are going with older guys for support and the bounding between young people isn't the same as it once was. I feel old saying this and I'm 23 LOL but most teens don't know what they want from life and change partners quicker than they do clothing. It's a really a shame but upon reflection it's just like marriages that fail.
• China
22 Oct 10
Approve your opinion,youngers should know what they want from life firstly,then true love will come.
• Philippines
22 Oct 10
It's because they are still young with little and shallow understanding of what real love is. As people grow older and experience such pain, slowly their eyes are being opened to the real meaning and what commitment is all about.
• United States
21 Oct 10
Teenagers fall in and out of infatuation, not love. However, because of their age and hormones, they can't tell the difference between the two, which is why it's so dramatic for them. I don't see what there is to regret about it, though. I was never that way myself. I got my first boyfriend when I was 16 and I'm now 23 and we've been married over two years.
@mandy8611 (154)
• China
22 Oct 10
young people nowdays have no idea what true love is,they don't have correct attitude on love, they think it's cool to have a girlfriend or boyfriend, since it's not true love, they can be easily be attracted by another boy or girl. I think they will gradually change as they grow up.
@macel19 (202)
• Philippines
21 Oct 10
The generation today is far different maybe because of the early exposure and the influence of media. The concept of falling in love and out of love is taking so lightly. Because of this I guess parents should make sure that they make an extra mile to guide their children to the right path and be a good example to them.
• China
22 Oct 10
that's the modern things. and more and more young people , girls or boys. just so easy to get together . but so easy to leave too. and the girls is open enough to make love to whoever she loves. and even for money . but i think the best reason for this is that our beleif is changing , and this is a better thing in my opinion.
@zoey7879 (3092)
• United States
21 Oct 10
In part.. Because they are young and still growing. Most teenagers have no idea what they truly want for themselves in the future, and are constantly evolving. As they change, the way that they feel towards other people and the way that others react to them will change. Many do not understand a depth of committment that goes beyond finishing out the season's baseball practice. Not all, but many. I personally, still care about everyone that I've ever dated, except for one because he ended up being a true psychopath. However, I am not in love with any of them, nor would I date them ever again, because my life is headed down an entirely different direction. At 14, I wanted to move to New Mexico and work as a missionary at a special foster care facility there. By 15, I didn't particularly embrace religion anymore and wanted to live and work on a farm. By 17, I wanted to move to Germany or Sweden and study computer science. I dressed far more different than anyone else in my town and listened to music that didn't really get popular here until several years later. I had no faith. At 19, all I wanted was bigger town life. I moved to suburban Chicago and had lots of friends. I was then agnostic, when five years before all I wanted to do was carry on for my faith. At 20, I moved to a ghetto city with my then boyfriend about two hours outside of Detroit and became a workaholic. I didn't want children. Zoom forward a few years. By 24, I was a mother and had been the witness to numerous violent crimes. More than a handful of my friends had been murdered or were in prison themselves. I was constantly being robbed. My attitude toward my boyfriend changed. My attitude towards everything changed. Now, I'm 31. I've been around the world, seen it. I know what I like and what I don't and what, if anything, that I am willing to compromise on. I know where I will go, where I won't, and where I might simply give things a shot. My boyfriend is much much younger than me. He's almost 20 right now. We've been together for some time, and I watch him constantly change and evolve. We've argued and split. I've watched him change, and I've watched him talk about loving other people. He came back to me... While another gentleman, also much younger, that I dated briefly and is near the same age bracket, doesn't even acknowledge that we've dated. When young people, or even older folk, change their mind so much, how can they be certain about anything for so long, especially how they feel about others and they have no idea how they feel about themselves yet?
• Philippines
21 Oct 10
Most people think that when they felt something special to someone its love already. Little did they know that love is more than just a tingling of skin. That's one of the many reasons why teenagers nowadays fall in and out of love.
@Aaleexix (2290)
• India
21 Oct 10
It is as easy to fall out of love then it is to fall in love and both have its advantages and disadvantages. However, this discussion is about why two people fall out of love and unfortunately today, this is happening more so. Love should be like a tree that bends in the wind. It can be bent and still be intact. If the branches start to break off then love is beginning to become lost and has a possibility of being shattered. Love has to be worked on
@Jotomy (6322)
• India
21 Oct 10
Hi EdnaReyes, yes now a days trend is like this. They make friends and they feel they are in love but that is not love actually that must be attraction or like. If they really love each other then they will not come out of that because love makes people bind together. If not physically but mentally. If they give preference to physical then sure that is not a love at all. Physical attraction itself they are thinking is love but love is related to heart and mind/soul. Why they are easily coming out means they don't have pure or real love towards their partners.
• United States
21 Oct 10
I find that young teens today have absolutely no idea what true love really is. It is as if they were infatuated with the word and feeling of love and basically thinking it is love each time they find an attraction.
@toniganzon (72285)
• Philippines
21 Oct 10
They're falling in and out of relationship but I don't think they're falling in and out of love that fast. It's not love at all when it doesn't last that long. Young people nowadays just love to be in a relationship and they have a lot of misconception of what love is. A few of them are gifted to know and decipher the meaning of love, but most of the young people are very shallow.
@fey008 (295)
• Indonesia
21 Oct 10
yeahh... may be... since they are still younger, i think... and they still looking the best for them...