People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
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I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
Teenagers are asking, 'Who am I?' and 'How do I fit in?' in every aspect of their lives, and the best YA romances appreciate that there is more to a teen's life than finding love.
We teenage girls are faced with a quandary: we know what we want but are forced to wait for our male counterparts to grow up. We are ready for intense and meaningful relationships, but research indicates that males will not reach maturity until their mid-20s.
The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance.'
Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.
You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
I didn't date for my entire teen life - it just wasn't on my mind.
Young people want you to be real with them.
When you discover first love as a teenager, your whole life revolves around it and you open yourself up to it.