How old were you when you first fell in love?

[terrya]

[Shell Beau]

1. I was 15 and it was with my now husband.

We were high school sweethearts!! :loveya: I am so lucky!! :loveya: It makes me want to go home and hug and kiss him right now!

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

2. Well, I was married at the age of 9

In my back yard by the neighbor, who was a minister's daughter. The first time I fell in LOVE was when I was 20. He was my "first time," and he broke my heart, but I stupidly allowed it to be broken.

[jpgray]

3. 19, though I thought I had a half-dozen times before that (nt)

[southlandshari]

4. 15

Sigh.

:loveya:

[progmom]

5. 17. Or, at least I thought it was love.

:shrug: i don't think it really was. i think i was more in love with the idea of being in love.

[Rising Phoenix]

6. I was 19

[matcom]

7. about 13

Olivia Newton-John wearing black leather pants in "Grease"

oh my

[no name no slogan]

8. First "real" girlfriend was at age 19

She was the first one of any real consequence. We dated for four years, off and on, through college and afterwards for a year or so until she dumped me for good.

I actually shed more tears over our breakup than I ever did over the breakup of my 9-year marriage, believe it or not. She broke my heart, and good.

[huskerlaw]

9. Still haven't.

Not really, anyway.

[redqueen]

10. 26

[redqueen]

15. And I feel like a freak!

Am I the only one who took so long?

[huskerlaw]

18. Nope!

I'm 27 and...see above.

[redqueen]

19. Whew...

thanks :)

[DerekG]

26. Well, I'm 23 and I've never fallen

Still, the romantic in me finds something erotically poetic in saving myself for "the one."

Perhaps I read too many 19th century novels.

[fudge stripe cookays]

11. 19.

We were both art majors, and after a semester of being drawing class buds (with him dating someone else), I came back the next fall looking hot.

He dumped her and got with me. It only lasted a year, but I was totalled for a long time afterward. Didn't have a serious guy for 4 years after that.

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[KitchenWitch]

12. 16

[flamingyouth]

13. 18

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. 14

But she already had a boyfriend from three grades ahead with the height, muscles, body hair and forehead slope of King Kong, so I kept it to myself.

[BlueIris]

16. 6. Boy next door. Don't laugh.

I said DON'T LAUGH.

I used to have a heart. Thanks, Chad!

[no name no slogan]

21. What a jerk, huh?

Don't worry, I bet he ended up living in mom's basement, working at the comics store, and spendings his weekends at gaming cons.

Hey waitaminute...

[BlueIris]

23. Unfortunately for all of us...

nevermind. I'm still too bitter to write about my relationship-related hatred.

[rug]

37. I guess he left you hanging.

[Fenris]

17. 18

[ghostsofgiants]

20. I'm 20 and I haven't been there yet

[SarahB]

22. 16

[Lydia Leftcoast]

24. 22

I'm fussy--always have been.

I can be in "like" with all sorts, but for genuine love, I require someone who has a wide-ranging intellect and a dry sense of humor in addition to all the usual good qualities (kindness, honesty, liberality...).

I was 22 before I met someone who fit the profile. That was when I first really understood what all the love songs were about. :-)

Unfortunately, aside from being brilliant and funny, he was seriously messed up emotionally, and although I was only one of a crowd of young women who were after him, he didn't get together with any of us. :-(

However, I googled his name a while back and discovered that he is married, so he must have gotten over whatever it was that was keeping him from connecting with anyone.

[BlueIris]

25. You Googled him?

Well, I guess a lot of people Google their exes. I? Have never had the guts.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

39. I Googled all my exes

:evilgrin:

[tigereye]

27. 21

I don't really count high school stuff.

[RetroLounge]

28. Hmmm, good question

19, if you consider it was love because someone finally screwed me.

24, if you consider real love.

34, if you count true, everlasting, the real-thing, OMFG love. 10 years later and it's only gotten better!

RL

[sundog]

29. 17

[skygazer]

30. 15

We dated until I was 18 then drifted apart. Nothing dramatic just got older and moved on.

The next time was when I was 34.

[wildhorses]

31. 16

[JackDragna]

32. 21.

Luckily, I managed to escape that trap before it snared me. :)

[Pale Blue Dot]

33. 5

Suzie White... where did you go? You were my across the street neighbor, but tragically, you moved away before I could declare my emotions.

I would not fall in love again until the age of 8 (the humiliating "Jennifer Dowd incident". :cry:)

[ZombieNixon]

34. 6. She sat next to me in "circle" time in first-grade.

Her birth-mother was a lesbian and her birth-father a gay man. :loveya:

[GOPisEvil]

35. I'll let you know when it happens.

:)

[mwdem]

36. 7, in second grade...

I chased him around the playground & he fell against the monkey bars and chipped his tooth. For some reason, at that age, girls always chased the boys.

[raptor_rider]

38. 21

when I had my daughter. That was when I realised what real love felt like, and I didn't have that for her father. Thank goodness I was not married. Now, falling in true love with a partner, was when I was 27, when I met my husband. It was love at first e-mail/sight. Married at 28 and have been married for over a year. We have been together for 2 years just this month.