Love is...

5/1/2019

Recently, I had some conversations with my students about relationships: what dating is, what it should be, how students define it. What love is, what it should be, how students define it. I was shocked that most teens believe that dating, or boyfriend/girlfriend or girlfriend/girlfriend or boyfriend/boyfriend, means commitment and more profoundly, love.

I've overheard conversations between some teens who confess their undying committed love about their partners. Then when asked how long they've been dating, the answers vary from six months to two years. I'm always shocked.

Surprisingly, teens believe that they know what love is at this age, yet they are so uncertain about everything else in life: their careers, their emotional states, their home life, their after high school plans, their sexuality, their religious/spiritual beliefs, their very futures! But ask them about love and they are absolutely sure that they have all the answers.

They speak and behave as if they've never heard of infatuation, obsession or possession. While I don't want to get into the semantics of it all, I wanted to create a post that hopefully makes teens think internally when they think, externally, that they are in love. I wanted to be neutral in my position because for some, this topic is a sensitive issue. However, I will make this one point: love is not jealously, obsession, possession, anger or rage. Love means letting go, loving you more, saving yourself for your future spouse. But in this news clip, love means jealously, rage and death.

Watch the vid above and read the article in their entirety. Consider it, then comment intelligently, academically and with fidelity.

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2. Respond in no more than 10 sentences and no less than five.

3. You MUST respond to at least TWO other posts from any student. Your replies cannot be identical comments on different posts and posting shallow comments such as "I agree" or "I disagree" will earn you a zero. Make sure your reply addresses the comment that you are responding to.
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Due: Fri., May 3, 2019 11:59 p.m. CST

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Asiah.r

5/1/2019 06:52:39 pm

Honestly this generation now some are not interested in actual love some just in it to have fun and not taking it serious. Others would disagree and think they in it for the long haul but we high schoolers what do we know we go off feelings more than anything else. I once saw this other video where this girl killed this other girl for talking to her boyfriend and its like is it really worth all that for us to not even be adults yet and to know what love actually is

L.Allen 2nd Period

5/1/2019 10:38:49 pm

I agree, in today's generation relationships are not taken serious which is why our country have high divorce rates. And in modern day most people look for love through material things or a person's appearance, however, I do believe you can still find real love in this generation but it will be difficult because of society an social media influence.

Marqueshia Richardson

5/2/2019 08:06:43 am

Man if this Is not on point I just don't know what is. It feels lile many people rush into relationship because they are so ready to see what it is like but they never stop and think do I really want to date or marry this person? Now in this generation if people were to ask that question to themselves they would answer out of how the person looks and what the person have . Instead of looking at the part of the person that will last other than material.

Z. Crawy

5/3/2019 04:17:20 pm

Yes that divorce rates so high because they be so young and just easily convinced their meant to be married because of the history.

T. Young 2nd period

5/3/2019 10:07:23 pm

Yes divorce rates are high because people are just jumping into marriage without really getting to know each other first.

Marqueshia Richardson

5/2/2019 08:09:48 am

True, if you love that person ou have trust for them that should be discussed ahead of time. Trust means you will allow that person in the relationship to live their life and have full respect that no matter who they talk to they will have the respect for the ralationship not to overstep boundaries without you having to KILL of get mad . Since when is love going out kill someone.

N.Brown8th

5/2/2019 01:06:26 pm

Everyone has different ways of showing their love whether its giving flowers or comments or even kiling. Sometimes love has a strange effect on a persons mind that they become someone they never forsaw to be.

T.Harris 6th

5/3/2019 08:42:50 pm

Love should make u want better for that person not kill them that’s crazy.

Asiah.r

5/4/2019 03:50:15 pm

Ikr like why do we kill over someone thats probrably entertaining someone else and not taking the time and just move on

L. Richardson 7th

5/16/2019 05:05:52 pm

Love is most definitely trust. Being able to know in your heart that no matter what the sitution the feelings won't change.

D.Gadson 6th

5/2/2019 09:27:19 pm

Facts ! Killing one another over a female or male just isn’t that serious, especially at this time being in high school.

Lloyd Trimble

5/3/2019 03:20:59 pm

I agree completely we are too young to throw our lives away over a highschool romance.

P Augustine 2nd

5/3/2019 08:29:49 pm

I agree with you, love isn’t that serious at such a young age to be killing someone’s child over.

M Taylor 1st period

5/3/2019 07:56:55 am

High schoolers or not the long run or not love isn’t a something to be defined it doesn’t have a definition.. no one truly knows what love is.. it’s a feeling
and what was done was the act of jealousy and abnormal feelings you’ll regret it after because it may not of been you but it was the jealousy.. love and jealousy is a very dangerous thing

J. Griffith 2nd

5/3/2019 07:36:12 pm

I agree because love can make a person do crazy things.

L.Allen 2nd period

5/3/2019 08:30:47 pm

You are absolutely right, but jealousy don't control your actions just your emotions and if you are planning or wanting to be with a significant other you have to be willing to accept the "unthinkable" when it comes to cheating,affairs,and infidelities which is what this generation have a hard time doing.

Asiah.r

5/4/2019 03:51:09 pm

True basiaclly going off feelings

Z. Crawford

5/3/2019 04:18:20 pm

But if she really loves him it wouldn't have been no reason to kill the other girl because of the trust they should've had

M. Hollywood 2nd

5/3/2019 05:42:21 pm

Just because we aren’t adults doesn’t mean we haven’t found love. If you aren’t dating to eventually marry that person then why are y’all together?

T. Jones 2nd

5/5/2019 11:56:56 pm

I agree but when you are young you may confuse any little thing to be love.

T, Young 2nd period

5/3/2019 09:34:51 pm

I absolutely agree with you, today's generation feelings that once you're dating you're locked in for life but there's never a ring anywhere in the equation.

Deja'Nae Byrd

5/16/2019 08:15:04 am

I somewhat agree, this paragraph sounds familiar. I also agree with how dramatic this generation is when it comes to their relationship.

L.Allen 2nd Period

5/1/2019 10:50:04 pm

Based on the video and as a high school student, I believe teenage love can be real but rarely because in today's generation some relationships have boundaries to where if you are a boy you can't have friends who are girls and vice versa which cause lack of trust an not real love. And I totally agree with Mrs.D perception of love, dating and finding the right one. However, to do something this extreme is uncalled for and unacceptable because now you are risking your future and solving your issues through violence.

K Eagans 3rd

5/2/2019 09:48:38 am

I think the not having opposite gender friends is somewhat understandable. Only because most of the time those “ friends” be the main ones trying to take your place. If that’s the situation and your partner is fine with being friends with that person than you don’t need to be with him or her.

T.Harris 6th

5/3/2019 08:47:08 pm

This is were I feel trust comes in Why do you have to be friends with someone because your spouse is friends with them?

I. Florence 8th

5/15/2019 07:21:00 pm

Not having friends of the opposite sex is not understandable. Your partner should be secure enough in their self esteem that they should not care if their partner has friends of a different sex. The teenage perspective on this specific topic certifies that many teenagers do not know what love is and have never experienced it. One, many teenagers do not have a decent level of self-esteem, this explains the perspective on the disapproval of opposite sex friends. Secondly, not wanting or feeling uneasy of your partner having opposite sex friends is not love. Love is security, not insecurity.

N.Brown8th

5/2/2019 12:58:15 pm

I agree i think we set boundries because we know what other people are capable of. So we tend to not trust each other based off what we think about other. Our generation always allows other people to cater to their relationship so their trust is often broken .

T. Jones 2nd

5/5/2019 11:57:50 pm

I agree. I feel that everything you do in life has to have boundaries ! Especially when you are in a relationship.

M. Hollywood 2nd

5/3/2019 05:44:51 pm

Yes it rare but it is possible. Everyone’s relationship shouldn’t be based off the generic perception of love.

T.Falls 6th

5/3/2019 10:36:22 pm

Teenage love can definitely be real but in all honesty it’s not as common to find now a days compared to back in the day when Love was something authentic.

K. Allen 8th pd

5/3/2019 11:07:18 pm

I agree with you teenagers don’t really look at love for what it actually is. Doing the extreme is unnecessary.

S. Sanders- 1st Period

5/3/2019 11:49:46 pm

Yelp, I agree that teenager love isn’t true love and is mistaken for the lust one have for another. Teenagers say they love, but gets mad and break up with one another for mediocre reasons unlike a married couple who loves forever till death do apart.

Q. Chancellor (5th period)

5/15/2019 09:03:38 am

I agree that teens have put boundaries on love. There are some guidelines when being in a relationship, but you should not have to stop your life and who you are completely to prove your love to someone.

Dejanae Byrd

5/16/2019 08:07:17 am

I agree with you one hundred percent. You have a different point of view, I like how you explained how love is real but how it's also hard because of how our generation thinks.

L. Richardson 7th

5/16/2019 05:07:48 pm

Violence is never the option, especially when there's love envovled. I may feel the urge to hit or fight my spouse but kill never. Love would stop you if it was true love.

Marqueshia Richardson

5/2/2019 08:02:28 am

How I feel about this video is....if you love someone why on earth would you kill that person. No that is not love that is full on jealousy. Love goes beyond that . And who is to say what If that person doe not want to be with that boy or girl as a girlfriend anymore if you love them let them go on and be happy.

M Taylor 1st

5/2/2019 09:09:26 am

The girl that was once his girlfriend wasn’t killed the boy she was supposedly flirting with was killed in the act of jealousy

K Eagans 3rd

5/2/2019 09:41:54 am

I agree. But I do think that that’s boy in he video has anger problems. He was never in love he was in lust.

Kamrin S.

5/2/2019 01:12:52 pm

people who would kill there boyfriend or girlfriend out of jealousy might do anything to have them or do anything from keeping them from talking or converting with anyone else, that why you have to get to know these people before you start dating them ( from off Instagram to Facebook , to twitter etc.)because they can act a certain way just to get you, then once they know they have you, they are a whole different person.

T.Falls 6th

5/3/2019 10:55:30 pm

Anything that results in you wanting to kill someone that you love can not and will not ever be that serious

D.Gadson 6th

5/2/2019 09:29:18 pm

I agree killing someone based off jealousy isn’t the option, like u said move on and let them be free.

M.Robinson 1st link

5/3/2019 08:53:49 am

I agree that it was based off jealousy because that person killed another person and that’s not love at all

S. Pirzada 6th

5/3/2019 06:39:52 pm

He was greedy for her attention, that's where "love" got him. It wasn't the case for that boy believing she'll beside him like no one else could. He wasn't prepare to understand what love meant.

Keiyana E 3rd

5/2/2019 09:37:55 am

I feel like if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend you should definitely be committed. Why be in a relationship if you going to cheat? Being in a relationship shows you how a person will act if y’all get married in the future. Now dating is a different situation. When you date you can talk to anybody you want to because you are not in a relationship. For some reason people find it so wrong for teenagers to feel like they are in love, when 50% of the time those teenagers grow up and marry each other. Everybody is different.

J. Griffith 2nd

5/3/2019 08:26:47 am

I agree because being in a relationship will strengthen your trust with one another.

S. Pirzada 6th

5/3/2019 07:19:12 pm

Most attraction and dating works by testing people out. Sometimes the infatuation is one-sided hoping that there will be official connection. Cheating though is deceitful but do have its chaotic outcomes of how the partner feel. Sadly, it's to keep the cheater excited.

K. Allen 8th pd

5/3/2019 11:08:53 pm

I agree with you totally , it shouldn’t be an age limit on love.

N.Brown8th

5/2/2019 12:47:04 pm

Love is not lust.Love is not attraction.What is Actual Love in our generation.The word love is overused for its proper meaning.Love is supposed to be a vocal word used for highest amount of affection and motion you have towards a person.The love we have for each other is more temporary than long term. We say the words “I love you” as if we have taken the time to develop those emotions.Love takes development and most of my generation don’t take the time to develop themselves and the relationships they have.My generation is so focused on the title instead of the person which is why most relationships fail. But i do think there is a matter of showing love that can determine what the words "i love you" mean.

C.Jones 6th

5/2/2019 07:26:55 pm

Hy, making love easy but it's not even love it's just affection.

T cherry 6th period

5/3/2019 10:59:36 am

You're right... The word love is way over used. I personally don't feel like a lot of people know the meaning because as you said they don't take the time.

Lloyd Trimble

5/3/2019 03:25:14 pm

I agree also people think that they know what love is but they are just showing affection

M. Mason 1st

5/3/2019 08:01:27 pm

I agree. At the end of the day “I love you” are just words. It’s the effort and actions that matter the most.

D Jones 3rd

5/4/2019 10:01:34 am

I agree our generation thinks love come easy and fast, but in reality its forced and rushed.Our generation base love off the stuff that was done not actual attraction.

I. Florence 8th

5/15/2019 07:29:11 pm

To our generation, the word "Love" is just a word and an action I like to call "doing the bare minimum. On social media I see teenagers professing their love for their partners, but they do not realize what they are experiencing is infatuation. Love is sacrifice, love is experiencing how that person reacts when angered, love is understanding, love is accepting your partner for every flaw they have. Teenagers can not experience this in eight hours of school and hanging out on the weekends.

K. Shavers 1st

5/2/2019 12:58:47 pm

Falling in love is an emotional upheaval at any age, but for adolescents the feelings are likely to be even more difficult to manage. .As a teenager myself, most of the time I believe it’s just our hormones kicking up.Although I also do believe we fall in love fast from the movies or tv shows that we watch. We see love on there, thinking it’s the same as real life.It could also be the lack of love we aren’t given. That’s why we’re so quick to fall in love, because some of us don’t have any, not only that it could be that everybody you’re surrounded by, all of them have relationships, and it makes us think, “I should get in a relationship too.”

C.Jones 6th

5/2/2019 07:23:55 pm

Right, it's what they put in our food.

M. Mason 1st

5/3/2019 07:59:54 pm

I agree. Teenagers do what they see if that makes sense.

D Jones 3rd

5/4/2019 10:11:16 am

i agree we this our mindset be messed up over a lot of false hopes and dreams. Relationships are forced and rushed into because its the "in" thing to do.

D. Gibson jr. 1st period

5/16/2019 08:08:04 am

I agree, teenagers rely on social media to depend on how they want their relationship.

C.Jones 6th

5/2/2019 07:23:18 pm

I feel like loving someone means you would do anything for them right or wrong. He could've loved that girl but it wasnt mutual. People are quick to "fall in love" or look for love because they feel like it will fill a void and make them a better person, happy, or feel secure. Me personally, I feel like if God wanted me to find love, he'll just let me stumble upon it. Yea I want to know how love feels but I'm not looking either, I love how I do me.

M. Chavez 2nd pd.

5/3/2019 10:44:35 am

I agree, love cannot be forced. It's something many people jump into, just because they think it will make them feel valued or help their self esteem. If it happens, it happens, just do not let that significant other define you.

S.Johnson 8th

5/3/2019 04:37:39 pm

People like to run around looking for love thinking it can fill a void in them.However you have to love and fix yourself before loving someone else becomes a reality.

M Taylor 1st period

5/3/2019 08:05:24 am

My mom used to always tell me this but for a very selfish reason.. “you don’t know what love is.. it’s puppy love”
and now looking back at it i somewhat believe it.. it’s not necessarily that we don’t know what love is because if that’s the case how can you know you love your family.. friends..your pets maybe ? but that’s love right ? or maybe that’s a completely different situation?? you’re able to love in away you would like or that’s possible just may not know “what it is”
the acts the this dude made about a person he “loved” would.. can.. and have.. happened in any other relationship not just of two people who thought they were in love
families kill or hurt one other because of jealousy all the time.. friends and animals as well jealousy is a dangerous feeling but it is always truly meant.. it was just the heat of the moment not everyone has self control but that doesn’t mean what her did was right because it wasn’t

D. Hearne 8th

5/3/2019 09:34:10 pm

You’re asking more questions than you’re answering.

J. Griffith 2nd

5/3/2019 08:23:41 am

In this generation, people get into relationships just for the thrill. Others might take it to seriously and start placing boundaries on who they are allowed to talk to. Most see a relationship as being committed to that person only. Unless you’re engaged, you can talk to who ever you want.

M. Chavez 2nd pd.

5/3/2019 10:41:26 am

I don't agree with your last statement. How can you expect someone to be 'loyal' when your'e engaged/married, when they're speaking to multiple people while y'all are in a relationship. I respect your opinion, but it just doesn't sit right with me. I think we can agree, to disagree.

K. Brown 8th hour

5/3/2019 11:46:59 pm

That is something I have never been able to understand. Maybe I am reading too much into it or I am reading this statement wrong but I feel like just how the word love has been warped, so has the word loyalty. To be in a relationship and still be talking to others just doesn't rub me as the loyal type of thing to do.

Estevan Salas 6th

5/3/2019 10:39:11 pm

The thrill of it and the clout that comes from it is what some relationships are started for. Word gets around pretty fast about flip floppers.

D. Gibson jr. 1st period

5/16/2019 08:10:21 am

I was with u until the last statement. In order to get engaged u have to set boundaries to see if your significant other will not step out the boundaries yall have set for each other.

M.Robinson 1st link

5/3/2019 08:51:57 am

Their are many ways of showing love but people just have different affects on showing it but love is more than that that person was not suppose to get killed all because your jealous if you do t love somebody just tell the truth don’t build up anger and jealousy and just kill someone

M. Chavez 2nd pd

5/3/2019 10:34:29 am

Being 'in love' at such a young age can be a nuisance, but I do believe in it. What I don't believe in, is letting it distract you from your priorities. In today's society, young adults think that being in love has them set for life, when in reality it's only temporary. You can be blinded for your liking of someone, while that person is blinded by something else. It is essential to love YOURSELF, and only yourself. Once you have yourself set, with education, work, social ethics, and whatever else, that is when you can add someone to your plate along with your other things.

T cherry 6th period

5/3/2019 10:49:50 am

Exactly... All love can be at this age is a distraction to our future. It is not at all non existent and you address that properly. Not by disregarding it but analyzing it's consequences.

D. Tonche 8th pd

5/3/2019 02:36:26 pm

I agree with the part were you say you must love yourself in order to move forward in life. If you cant love yourself how do you expect someone to love you.

S.Johnson 8th

5/3/2019 04:36:29 pm

We have so many distractions at this age especially being in our senior year. The idea of “love” makes it no better.

M. Sanchez 6thpd

5/3/2019 06:49:01 pm

People think that just because you love someone that you put their needs and priorities in front of yours. However if they are not your kids then there is no need for that to happen, you should always be aware of what you want for yourself before you decided to put others needs before your own.

J earl

5/3/2019 06:50:55 pm

Society goes off of bein held responsible for lettin someone in and out of ur heart . Stop giving in so easily

T cherry 6th period

5/3/2019 10:47:00 am

I feel like no human being should be confined to the ideology of being less than their older counterparts. Of course as an adult you have been put through much more than I can ever comprehend, but that also plays into the fact that walking in anyone elses shoes is harder than you think. If you as an adult are able to love someone no matter if it's in a intimate relationship, friendship, or within your family then me as a teenager is capable of the same thing. The video showed is an extreme case of not love but, maybe a different human phenomenon... being psychotic.

D. Tonche 8th pd

5/3/2019 02:34:48 pm

The headline for this articles brings up evidence that thus teenager is psychotic since he thinks the act of murdering someone as an act of joy. I dont think he should be associated with the rest of the teenage population.

J. Maple 8th

5/3/2019 07:27:30 pm

I completely agree. Love can happen at any age, if you meet the right person who fits your needs and personality.

B. Haynes 8th

5/3/2019 10:59:49 pm

I agree, there are so many different kinds of relationships with love that we as teenagers experience. But I think with romantic love, it’s a different ballpark—especially when you’re an adult. There’s a reason our relationships are called “puppy love”—it’s just the beginning.

D. Tonche 8th pd

5/3/2019 02:32:38 pm

As someone who has had their fare-share of infatuation and delusional crushes; I can understand why everybody is so focused on finding a romantic partner rather focusing in their future. However, the 17 year-old boy that murdered a classmate in cold-blood is harrowing. This psychopath can be associated with the rest of this generation because he is clearly insane, describing murdering a person as a joyful act. Sure, an abundance of teenagers are infatuated with the idea of love and having the perfect relationship but they wouldn't go to the extent of committing murder. I think this idea that lingers in the minds of teenagers is preparing them for a lifetime of disappointments since they cannot fond the perfect relationship.

J. Maple 8th

5/3/2019 07:29:22 pm

I agree. Teens are obsessed with the idea of love, and this obsession can lead to twisted thoughts in the minds of some.

T.Tate 8th

5/3/2019 11:18:05 pm

I agree , they don’t know what they are putting their self through. Thinking they know what love is.

Lloyd Trimble

5/3/2019 03:28:42 pm

I don’t believe that our generation truly knows what love is seeing that we are so young. Also I don’t believe we should take relationships so seriously because we are still in high school but that doesn’t mean you can play with a person’s emotions. (I completely disagree with Ms.D and her comparison of dating to test driving cars)

J chandler 6th

5/3/2019 09:13:15 pm

Love doesn’t have an age limit. And why be in a relationship of you don’t want to take it seriously. That’s just a waist of the person time.

F. Aleman 8th

5/3/2019 11:45:05 pm

When your young, you do stupid stuff. Sometimes teenagers say they want something and turns out that's not really true. Maybe it's the fact that as teens we find the person physically attracted but we're not really committed to be with that person.

Z. Crawford 5th pd

5/3/2019 04:21:42 pm

Love is really a word that is used so loosely these days. They just throw it around like it a football. I honestly don't think I know what love is yet because the only love I've felt is pain and I know that's not what's it's supposed to be. Another thing is people be so quick to want to love someone else but don't even love themselves. In order to even give love a try you have to love yourself as a whole. I don't think nobody will understand the true meaning of love until their 30s.

S.Johnson 8th

5/3/2019 04:34:55 pm

Today love is something that is just thrown around and convenient. Many people my age love the idea of love but have yet to understand what love is. For example, How can you love someone you haven’t seen in their darkest moments, poorest moments, or just when they wake up in the morning?So many things are tied to love and us 17/18 year old have not experienced it. Loving someone takes time and for us to sit here after 3 months and say oh i love her/him is completely absurd. At this point i do not think nobody experiences true love until they’ve discovered their lover inside and out.

K.phillips 6th

5/3/2019 04:48:01 pm

Agreed. Love is just thrown around no one understands the meaning

D. Hearne 8th

5/3/2019 09:32:25 pm

Well there is no one meaning to understand.

J earl

5/3/2019 06:48:21 pm

True howcan you love someone that haven’t been there with u threw thick n thin and seen what you’ve been threw.

N. Medina 6th

5/3/2019 07:51:37 pm

Agreed, you have to know someone deeply in order for you to feel that sort of emotion, see them at their best and their worst.

Tokyra T 8th

5/3/2019 11:16:23 pm

I agree teens don’t even care about love these days .All they are really worried about us sex.

K.Phillips 6th

5/3/2019 04:47:30 pm

Whew love ? That a big word to use in high school . These kids take it way to seriously. This is the time to have fun live & find yourself . Girls go crazy over these boys they’ll fight behind them and all . it’s never that serious. It actually sad because teens kills there self over love

M. Sanchez 6th pd

5/3/2019 06:45:53 pm

Love is a big word for young people to use. Many times they confuse it for obsessing or wanting people but they are most definitely not the same thing.

Jniquea jackson

5/3/2019 07:55:31 pm

I agree. Kids are wrapped up with being showed off and falling to reliazed the meaning of live. But once they mature they will understand.

J. Gonzalez 2nd

5/3/2019 08:46:09 pm

Love is an extremely big word and behind that word comes a lot of responsibility. Kids our age in high school should learn to date and get a feel of what the water feels like instead of diving in without testing the waters.

K. Brown 8th hour

5/3/2019 11:38:19 pm

Though the question is, "is what many high schoolers feeling actually love?". This point could be heavily argued but I myself think that it's not and yes, some teens are taking their high school relationships way too far.

M. Hollywood 2nd

5/3/2019 05:32:14 pm

Although I don’t understand what is going on in the video based on the article his actions are crazy. I honestly don’t believe I completely know what love is however it’s not anything that should be taken for granted. Even though I’m not sure what love is im positive it is not hate, anger, and jealousy. It’s about growing with one another and building with that person. If you are dating why not be loyal to the person because if they believe cheating is okay they will continue to do so while you are married. No one should put an age on love, because sometimes people truly find love at a young age.

Jordan b

5/3/2019 09:35:56 pm

I agree, love is something that is developed over time not placed on you at a certain time on life.

S. Pirzada 6th

5/3/2019 06:22:53 pm

It's takes two people to compromise a relationship. Everyone has their own romantic fantasy, but is not always stable to maintain a relationship. People can get carried away with attachment and drop their proprieties. I don't always find yearning healthy especially as an adolescent. We tend to have inconvenient consequences, though as human we're adapted to comfort our peers and maybe flirt. Not many people have that warm security.

M. Sanchez 6th pd

5/3/2019 06:43:16 pm

Most teenagers don’t know anything about love, they believe that what they see on social media and movies/shows is what love is. Most people don’t even get to know each other before they decided to begin a relationship and create plans for a future. We are still young and naive and have much to learn about relationships. In fact it is hard to find healthy relationships these days because of social media and people thinking it’s okay for their partner to be able to tell them what to do and when to do it. Also young couples like to put all of their problems on social media and don’t understand what privacy is. It is possible to find love at a young age we’ve all heard stories before but it doesn’t turn out that way for all of us.

N. Medina 6th

5/3/2019 07:49:52 pm

True, I believe most teenagers always think love should be like what’s in the movies but they don’t understand it’s different for everyone.

Jniquea jackson

5/3/2019 07:54:34 pm

True , kids in our generation is so closed minded . Kids nt even seeing the bigger picture of what love is.

J. Perez 6th

5/3/2019 11:39:57 pm

Social media and just media in general is definitely a major factor in our view of love. We've been dupped into thinking that love can be at first sight when in reality in order to fall in love you need to know that other person. Sure some of the scenes in a chicflic are cute but its just not how it works. You cant get a deep emotional connection such as love by just touching hands, looking at each other from across the room or smiling at each other. Privacy is also a major issue when it comes to teen relationships its all about who broke up with who, drama and just utter nonsense that worsens their relationship. Relationships just arent taken as seriously.

jakoria earl

5/3/2019 06:47:03 pm

Our generation is based on relationships or just trying to be happy. I think that love is real because a first heartbreak is the first lesson. I understand we get to carried away with the whole reinstates I year to two year definition but we have a point but murder is not part of love that’s is obsession it takes people in to a whole mother depression mode.

J. Gonzalez 2nd

5/3/2019 08:42:32 pm

I agree with you. Our generation does get carried away and the murder I believe to was caused by obsession, jealousy, and insecurities. There is no reason you should kill someone over jealousy.

T.falls 6th

5/3/2019 11:54:09 pm

What makes high school love different from any other type of love. It’s actually bad because when you are young it can lead to actions that are life changing.No matter the situation good or bad it should never lead you to killing someone. Just the thought of knowing that they are capable of something like that makes you wonder about everything you do. The power to kill also shows that that person is facing problems deeper then the one presented at the time.

J. Perez 6th

5/3/2019 11:32:40 pm

Being "goals" is whats making relationships faker and less meaningful now a days. Thats why so many teens rush into them without thinking about the other person and their feelings and when that happens the relationship is misguided. Its no longer about your feeling about your partner its all about your wants and needs and thats what ruins it. Love is a dangerous emotion that can lead to obsession, possession and insanity. Some adults cant even handle it thats why some teens shouldnt rush in and call it love.

J. Maple 8th

5/3/2019 07:39:22 pm

While I feel that a lot of us get the idea of love mixed with lust, infatuation, or just caring deeply about a person, it doesn’t have a time or age limit. You don’t have to know someone forever to get to love. It’s multi-faceted, and it can grow and grow into something different and more mature as those people get older. That being said, I feel that the video just reflects the confusion of love for something else. Many of us can say that we love all of someone, but we only love a certain aspect of that person; the tip of their iceberg.

N. Medina 6th

5/3/2019 07:48:43 pm

There is a lot to learn as we grow. We have years ahead of us and we should live life to the fullest. Most teenagers don’t know what love is and they think they do. It’s a sensitive topic to many because it deals with their emotions. People base their so called “love” on things they see on social media or on old people’s “love life.” People get attached because they are young and want to know what they believe love is like.

P Augustine 2nd

5/3/2019 08:39:18 pm

I agree with you, our generation is a bunch of want to be’s. We see couples that are in love with each other and have genuine love for each other, and we try to mock it and make it our reality not fully understanding what it is.

Estevan Salas 6th

5/3/2019 10:41:03 pm

Social media really impacts what this generation thinks of love. Many only show the eternally happy side of the relationships and never to rollercoaster of ups and downs that come with one.

Jniquea jackson 2

5/3/2019 07:53:35 pm

Honestly I do believe this generation knows what love is but don’t know how to deal with love or use love . Love is something unconditionally that won’t stop. I do believe our generation struggle with knowing what love is . But the meaning will develop Over time.

J chandler 6th

5/3/2019 09:09:54 pm

I also think we know what love is but i think most people take it for granted.

S. Lara 6th period

5/3/2019 11:49:21 pm

I agree it’ll take time for people to realize the truth of love. Many don’t know they must love themselves before loving another person. They should understand the troubles that come with others.

S. Lara 6th period

5/3/2019 11:53:49 pm

I agree it’ll take time for people to realize the truth of love. Many don’t know they must love themselves before loving another person. They should understand the troubles that come with others. As well as learn how to handle situations.

M. Mason 1st

5/3/2019 07:57:57 pm

This generation will do anything for love. It’s sad but true. Teenagers fail to realize that you don’t have to fall in love right now this second. Love will eventually find you. They see all of these YouTube couples and think that’s what they’re relationship will be like. I think that some teenagers rush into relationships just to say they have one and to make themselves happy. Later on down the road they won’t be saying the same thing.

M. Cain 2nd

5/3/2019 09:40:50 pm

I agree people only want the good that comes in relationships so that they can be “goals” but you need to see the bad to know whether or not this person is right for you.

R. Leal 2nd

5/3/2019 11:29:01 pm

I agree, teenagers tend to rush into things. Especially romantic and sexual decisions.

A crow 5th period

5/3/2019 11:49:42 pm

Yes finally someone who said it! You don't look for love it finds you. People mess up alot of relationships trying to create something that's not present.

P Augustine 2nd

5/3/2019 08:37:05 pm

People do some weird things. Killing the person you’re with just because you are in a jealous state is not right at all. We as teens, in this day and age do not know what love is, and to be committing a crime that messed with someone else’s personal life is not demonstrating that you love them. The boy in this video was simply not in love with her, he may have loved her, maybe not even that, but he was not in love with her.

Jordan b

5/3/2019 09:30:27 pm

Facts, there's a difference between being in love with someone and living someone entirely.

S. Lara 6th period

5/3/2019 11:11:28 pm

I agree he was not in love or loved her if he was to kill because of her. He is not in the right mind and should seek help. Although he was mad this was not the way to handle things, which proves many teens are just not mature enough or ready to handle relationships.

A crow 5th period

5/3/2019 11:47:27 pm

My granny always said love will make a person do strange things. But me personally I believe that when you fall in love with someone you would do anything to keep them safe and happy.

J. Gonzalez 2nd

5/3/2019 08:39:27 pm

I agree with you. Kids today have not lived long enough to know what actual love is. They think a few months together with the first person they date is love. You can;t base love off of the first person you date or a relationship in high school. Cause as soon as a person cheats its all "f boys/girls" or especially with girls "I'm going gay". Now with the video and article. That boy was way to extreme and had no right to kill, let alone decapitate a young man because his girlfriend might have been flirting with another guy. I think the kid is getting what he deserves, but I do think it wasn't just him. I believe there may have been the help of others to kill this young man.

T.Harris 6th

5/3/2019 08:58:56 pm

The subject is Weird only because this generation doesn’t know what “Love” is nobody honestly want to be in a relationship just Talk then “cheat”. We live in A time where nobody wants to get married they get to the talking stage and get upset about Little things. Everybody wants to be somebody’s property like that’s the thing to do. Killing isn’t necessarily The way to go just because you love me don’t mean kill for me or even me. These are just kids doing things they see on television but forget it all comes with consequences.

J chandler 6th

5/3/2019 09:06:57 pm

As a person in a relationship, I have never been the jealous type. Let alone the violent type either and I agree that love should not be jealous. Jealousy in a relationship, I think, comes from a lack of trust. If there’s no trust then there’s no real relationship. I trust my significant other enough for there to be no reason to be jealous. I let the chips fall where they may. Don’t get that deep to kill over him.

F. Aleman 8th

5/3/2019 11:41:53 pm

Jealousy could also turn a relationship toxic. For example, the video demonstrated how his jealousy ended up with someone being dead.

D. Hearne 8th

5/3/2019 09:24:58 pm

Love doesn’t have a universal meaning, it comes in different forms. A mother’s love is different from a father’s love. Love for your husband is different from love for a friend. This kid loved his girlfriend so much that he would (and did) kill for her. That was his type of love and that’s how he chose to show it.

I. Chancellor 8th period

5/3/2019 10:35:41 pm

To be honest, I really never thought about like that. With all honesty, mothers and fathers do things differently to show love. Again, you would do things differently for your significant other, than you would do for a friend. In disagreement, that was not love, that was hatred and jealousy. To me, he showed that he did not trust his girlfriend.

D. Hearne 8th

5/4/2019 09:43:27 am

You 𝑠𝑒𝑒 it as hatred, but you don't know where his actions came from. You're not him, so you can't convince me that this wasn't love. I'm not saying it is, I'm saying that it is a possibility that it was.

C. San Roman 2nd

5/3/2019 10:42:04 pm

No that was not love, did you read the article? He literally accused her of cheating just because she talked to another boy. Love does not make someone kill, obsession does.

D. Hearne 8th

5/4/2019 09:40:03 am

Everyone deals with and expresses their emotions differently. You can't confine emotion into one little box. You see it one way but, to him, it could've been another.

C. Hamilton 5th

5/3/2019 10:49:27 pm

That was not love . It would’ve been different if she told him to do it . Then yea, he love her so much that he would do anything for her and do what she says . But she was just talking to dude and he killed him for that . That ain’t love , that’s be controlling, basically sending a message that by having a conversation with a dude can get him killed and doing it too many times could’ve possibly gotten her killed .

D. Hearne 8th

5/4/2019 09:37:27 am

Like I said there is no one definition of love. Your morals and ideals are different from everyone else. When you look at an art piece, you don't look at is as a whole you examine every aspect.

Jordan.b

5/3/2019 09:26:20 pm

Jealousy shouldn't be included in a relationship at all. It shows lack of trust and vulnerability in a person. I'm not the type of person to let someone put me in a position to kill someone because I "love you" and jealousy clouded my mind, That's insane.

M. Cain 2nd

5/3/2019 09:39:45 pm

I agree jealousy only leads to bad things. I think sitting down and expressing how it makes you feel to your partner will always be better than sitting in envy.

C. Hamilton 5th

5/3/2019 10:43:52 pm

I agree . Taking time out to sit and having a serious conversation with your partner can solve so many problems and some times things wouldn’t even turn into problems . Instead of just sitting there soaking up all the negative energy til the point you just go off.

I. Chancellor 8th period

5/3/2019 10:13:18 pm

It shouldn’t, because it will destroy a relationship. To be in love, means that you have to trust that person no matter what. In agreement, it did show lack of trust and what happens when someone does not trust their significant other. To be honest, love does not kill, jealousy and hatred does. With all honesty, if you do not trust that person, then you should leave that relationship, because lack of trust causes problems in relationships.

M. Cain 2nd

5/3/2019 09:38:34 pm

Well this article is very chilling to me. I feel like this generation is so possessive over whomever they’re in a relationship with. I feel like social media hasn’t made it any better either, it makes people believe that the only person you should talk or associate with is your significant other. In this particular story I feel like after the second time of her boyfriend getting angry that she was talking to another boy she should’ve called it quits. Especially if she had explained previously that they were simply classmates nothing more nothing less. Jealousy will cause people to do crazy things. That boy should be alive today but he’s not because another boy couldn’t handle his girlfriend talking to him. One more thing I really feel like everybody is so caught up in being the perfect Instagram couple or couple goals that they’ll deal with anything in their relationship.

R. Leal 2nd

5/3/2019 11:26:37 pm

I agree, social media plays a large role in the whole relationship perspective. Maybe if it wasn't so largely encouraged, people would just be .

H. Aleman 8th period

5/3/2019 09:42:42 pm

Honestly, I do not think it's impossible for young people to understand love. Older generations will always say that we don't or can't understand, but they say that about everything. I think that young people's uderstanding of love is often hindered or manipulated because of the pressure society puts on love and relationships. Everyone is too busy striving to get that "perfect" Instagram relationship , so young people never have time to focus on what makes love possible. Because of this, we often can't tell the difference between love and infatuation or obsession, and we don't know how to communicate with our partners. Love is often over complicated, and is made to be an embodiment of rage, jealousy and fear.

B. Haynes 8th

5/3/2019 10:56:42 pm

Social media does play an influential role in how teenagers view relationships. Many of us strive for that “picture-perfect” love, when that doesn’t exactly exist. Instagram photos don’t show the work that’s put into a healthy love.

H. Aleman

5/3/2019 09:47:53 pm

And also, there is no single definition of love. Everyone's idea of love is different, so to say that someone else doesn't understand love is wrong. I may not be sure of my emotional state, and I may not have a perfect plan for my future, but I know for sure that I love my friends. I love my mother, and my sister. Nobody can tell me that I don't understand that love.

C. San Roman 2nd

5/3/2019 10:38:34 pm

There are no different definitions of love. As we all know the definition is "an intense feeling of deep affection", but there are different versions of love, such as platonic love.

K.Gomez 6th

5/3/2019 11:29:36 pm

I agree everyone has their own opinions and beliefs, people interpret things differently. So can you really judge Mathew Borges’ love? Because to him his kind of love was ok, so can we really say that he doesn’t understand love? I’m not saying that I agree with his kind of “love” but would you be understanding of it since everyone has their own interpretation of love?

I. Chancellor 8th period

5/3/2019 09:59:51 pm

To be honest, love tends to be mixed up with social media likes and lust. These are principles that will destroy and have destroyed relationships. With all honesty, only a few teenagers really know what love is. The boy in the video showed jealousy not love, because if he would have had love, then he would trusted his girlfriend. Majority of teenagers need to know and understand the key principles of love, to really be in love.

T. Young 2nd period

5/3/2019 10:20:52 pm

I believe some teenage relationships can actually work out in the long run leading to marriage. However, the things that cause relationships to fail is people being very obsessive and jealous with their partner. When people become jealous they tend to lack trust and doubt everything their partner does or says and becomes crazy. It never fails that their "love for the other person pushes them pass the edge of sanity. "Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other." ~Robert A. Heinlein

Estevan Salas 6th

5/3/2019 10:25:35 pm

I believe love is subjective, what my thoughts of “love” arent the same yours and its all circumstantial. However we are all still really young and only about to graduate, a lot of us havent experienced love. My generation sees love as time spent or just being claimed and committed. I think love is possible now, just not for absolutely everyone. Once we all grow into adults we will learn what love truly is, whether it be with our present or future lover.

D.Gadson 6th

5/3/2019 10:30:31 pm

In this generation many people don’t know exactly what love is. Love shouldn’t even be in our vocabulary being that we still in high school and haven’t experienced the real yet. Although love comes in variety of ways.If someone really loved the person they are with, they should not kill him/her. Jealousy shouldn’t be the reason because that can easily be solved by communicating.

J. Butler 5th and 6th

5/3/2019 11:02:49 pm

I disagree. A lot of things in life require experience but some things can be strayed and found perfect very young. Love is one of those things. There is no time on it, if it’s right it’s right.

C. San Roman 2nd

5/3/2019 10:35:19 pm

Our very own culture romanticizes the idea of "undying loyal love" but all we are doing is promoting obsession. Teens do not know what they want, a few do, but the majority do not even know what they want in a partner, the first thing they see is the surface. Another reason as to why I think teens are not knowledgeable about love is because most of us have not gone through enough experiences to know what it is.

K.Gomez 6th

5/3/2019 11:19:38 pm

What’s wrong with wanting loyalty? Loyalty and obsession are two different things. Loyalty is a strong feeling of support and allegiance. I don’t think that an obsessive person would care about being supportive when they are trying to satisfy their own desires.

C. Hamilton 5th

5/3/2019 10:38:43 pm

Love is not rage or gander or jealousy at all. That’s just insecurity masked by the word “love” . I feel like some people on this generation actually know what love actually is and some just see actions by people like their parents and say if I act like that then I must be in love .

J. Butler 5th and 6th

5/3/2019 11:01:22 pm

I agree. We watch the tv and think that’s what love looks like but that’s just what it’s portrayed as. You can find you’re own way of love, it definitely isn’t anything specified!

B. Haynes 8th

5/3/2019 10:54:07 pm

Love is such a complex emotion that I don’t anyone can truly understand unless they’ve experienced all aspects of it. It has different meanings for a lot of people, and we all express as well as feel love in our own ways. At such a formative time like one’s teenage years, there’s a chance to be exposed to so many new experiences—and that includes relationships. However, I do think that there are healthy and unhealthy ways to express love, and this article showed the unhealthy aspect of love. I once watched a video that talked about jealousy in relationships—it’s this feeling that you own this person rather than just letting them be. It really gave me another perspective on how we view jealousy sometimes—that it’s okay at times, when in reality, it leads to situations like these. As teenagers, we don’t even know who we are yet, and in relationships we can easily lose ourselves in that person—I think that’s the problem. There’s still a lot more for us to learn and experience, and that includes what we think is “love.”

J. Butler 5th and 6th

5/3/2019 10:59:15 pm

Honestly, who knows what love it is. It’s your own reality. Everyone’s love isn’t the same but I do feel like some people call anything love. People get in relationships all the time, though it may not be love everyone has something to learn from it; which should later guide them to love. I’ve never known true love myself but I don’t think there’s an age or time when you’re supposed to find it.

S. Lara 6th period

5/3/2019 11:06:43 pm

Most teenagers in our generation don’t know what it takes to be in a relationship, some simply throw themselves into one for the fun of it or because they’re scared to be alone. This leads them to enter violent and unhealthy relationships. A relationship should never get to the point where another human being is hurt because of it.

K.Gomez 6th

5/3/2019 11:11:34 pm

What is love? According to it’s dictionary definition it is an intense feeling of affection. There are many kinds and forms of love; everyone has their own description or depiction of love. And while, to each their own, this young man’s “intense feeling” drove him to lose sight of himself and became obsessive and possessive, leading him to murder. When it comes to love people generally think of all the beauty and loveliness behind it but where there is light there is dark. Borges’ love became the toxic and dark side of love that people tend to forget, which I like to call “fake love”.

R.Hannon 6th period

5/3/2019 11:59:01 pm

*Soulja Boy voice (dictionaaarrry) HahA that's funny. Love been lost a definition. It's 21st century everyone defined it themselves.

K. Allen 8th pd

5/3/2019 11:13:21 pm

Love shouldn’t be based on age , who is to say that two people are not truly in love? But going over board and doing extreme things such as kill somebody or do any hard because of jealousy is out of line. Love at any age shouldn’t force you to do anything that extreme that can mess up your life permanently.

D.Molo 8th

5/3/2019 11:38:33 pm

I agree. Reason being that love shouldn’t be based on age but on how mature a person is. Maturity doesn’t mean age it means (having reached the most advanced stage in a process).

J Mills 2nd pd

5/3/2019 11:40:15 pm

I disagree because, in order to love someone you have fully know what it means to love someone, and that takes time.

T.Tate 8th

5/3/2019 11:20:49 pm

I feel like teens are not foucsed on loving each other they are more focus on things that not even important in relationship.Which is why teens don’t know nothing about love.

D.Molo 8th

5/3/2019 11:35:58 pm

I agree a bit. Reason being is not that they don’t know about love. It’s just that they might mixed the emotions that they are feeling and can only explain it as love.

J Mills 2nd pd

5/3/2019 11:38:46 pm

I disagree, I think teens nowadays areTOO focused on each other. Teens should be into academics rather than a a boyfriend or girlfriend.

R. Leal 2nd

5/3/2019 11:24:00 pm

I personally feel like most of the time when in a relationship as a teenager nowadays, it's not real love. People can have a two week relationship and already say "I love you" as if they've known that person in their entirety. I feel like most relationships are based on lust and infatuation. Which could explain why they don't last long. Once the magic is gone, the connection just isn't there between the two in the relationship and they split up. All over social media we see celebrities and popular public figures all "boo'd up". I've met people who say they "need" to be in a relationship, which is ridiculous to me . I feel like one should find themselves before attempting to figure out others.

K. Banks 6th

5/3/2019 11:57:28 pm

People who seem to be in love over a short time span could be merely based on infatuation.

J. Perez 6th

5/3/2019 11:26:56 pm

Love is learned with time but yeah most teens are too young or inexperienced in love. Thats why we have ludicrous kids like that who confuse love with obsession and possession. Love is what every relationship needs to work on, even adults struggle with it. You see people everyday harm their significant other out of "love" and some let themselves be abused by their lovers because they're blinded by this misguided love. Honestly love is something few understand or grow to understand. Its a strong emotion that needs control, effort and mindfulness.

D.Molo8th

5/3/2019 11:33:12 pm

A great deal of us get love blended with desire, captivation, or simply thinking profoundly about an individual, it doesn't have a period or age limit. You don't need to realize somebody always to get the chance to cherish. It can develop and develop into something other than what's expected and progressively develop as those individuals get more seasoned. In other words, I feel that the video just mirrors the perplexity of adoration for something different. A large number of us can say that we cherish everyone or somebody, however we just love a specific part of that individual.

R.Hannon 6th period

5/3/2019 11:56:55 pm

Wow *snaps fingers* sounds like poetry and only the real ones will understand this one. Come through vocabulary lol. And most definitely right in your last sentence "specific part* It seems like nobody loves us for us anymore. That's the sad part #whatislove #dobetter #wherearetherealmen

J Mills 2nd pd

5/3/2019 11:35:03 pm

I agree that love takes a lot of time. You can’t just look at someone and be in love. To be in love, I believe you have to have a strong bond with someone that was formed over at least 5-10 years. Teens in my generation have tunnel vision but in a bad way. The guy in the video obviously took things way to too seriously and I’m 100 % sure he and the girl weren’t even dating for even 2 years. I just think undying love for someone you barely know and an age where your brain isn’t even fully developed is dangerous.

K. Brown 8th hour

5/3/2019 11:35:49 pm

In our generation love is a very strange word. We will confusion it with infatuation and obsession, or even with lust and control. We argue over partners that don't want us back or that are even possibly using us but we are "too blind to see." Seeing someone go as far as that student did is terrifying. Now, at the young age of 15, though the murder age has been lowering, he will be forever condemned to this pitiful and out of place action.

K. Brown 8th hour

5/3/2019 11:50:09 pm

*confuse

C. Capel 6th

5/5/2019 10:37:17 pm

Yeah, it’s not genuine anymore .

F. Aleman 8th

5/3/2019 11:41:01 pm

The video above would not be the first thing I would consider “love”. Love to me means wanting to be there for one person through good and bad times. However, in our society teenagers tend to
rush to look for someone who they think will spend the rest of their life with them. Even though they have plenty of time after high school. There is no way that teenagers really know what love is. With adults, they have experience and more time to mature.

K. Banks 6th

5/3/2019 11:53:29 pm

Teens do look to rush into relationships without putting much thought to it.

A crow 5th period

5/3/2019 11:41:08 pm

I believe that the word love doesn't have any weight to it now just because this generation throws the word around like they know what it is

S. Sanders- 1st Period

5/3/2019 11:58:05 pm

Love is used lightly as one likes. We see it used so loosely in movies misleading one’s true love in the reality of living in love for another.

Z. James 8th

5/4/2019 12:40:57 am

It’s only a rare few who can actually use the term correctly.

Khaiya Jefferson

5/5/2019 04:26:37 pm

Very true we do throw the word love around too much cause we don't truly know what it is. We just go off what we see and hear.

K. Banks 6th

5/3/2019 11:52:21 pm

Love shouldn’t be connected to jealousy or rage. Any type of “love” that makes you act out in anger was never really love. Love shouldn’t be defined based on age, but the connection between two people. I do believe teens nowadays fall in love too quickly. Although, it really shouldn’t be limited to a time frame.

Z. James 8th

5/4/2019 12:40:21 am

If you LOVED someone you know your limitations in how angry you are against them.

M Martinez 3rd

5/4/2019 12:24:45 pm

You're right when you say love shouldn't be jealousy. Jealousy is something so ugly that can affect a relationship.

Ricardo Israel Montoya

5/5/2019 03:12:32 pm

Jealousy tends to ruin the most important thing which is the trust you have for the other person

R.Hannon 6th period

5/3/2019 11:52:43 pm

What a topic? They all say "Love is a strong word." But, I honestly believe no one really knows what love actually means , well to a certain extent. We all have our own definition , we all have our opinion on how we really feel about it. To Relationships to Commitment we're all somewhat confused and scared or just don't have no emotion to show towards another human being. In my opinion , there's nothing like that R&B love when men actually cared to take you out on a nice date, opening car and building doors and even paid close attention to the little things woman hardly noticed.

S. Sanders- 1st Period

5/3/2019 11:56:35 pm

Love is kind and patient. Love is to play around with. Love is God meaning it is true. Love is forever. It respects, understands, commits, and is real working together with another for ever and teens or youth aren’t able to make adult decisions of love thoroughly. Just like the man in the video, some takes love serious and some do not. People are so of the world they forget about the sacredness of love that leads to marriage. Love is to cherish. Love is for marriage for reproduction. It is for character and trusting people to promote a healthy life. It is ok to love from a distance. Love in marriage is unto death whereas some love to death meaning they will kill the one they love not to allow them to be with someone else. See that’s not love that wicked.

M Martinez 3rd

5/4/2019 12:23:31 pm

You need to accept one another and deal with one another. All the things you've explained is what true love is.

Khaiya Jefferson

5/5/2019 04:24:33 pm

Sometimes people need to be happy that you found someone. Rather than assume and take stuff to extreme proportion cause at the end of the day love is hard to find.

C. Capel 6th

5/5/2019 10:36:49 pm

Hit the nail right on the head.

Z. James 8th

5/4/2019 12:39:29 am

There such a thing of teenagers being in love. However, actual love takes time and commitment. It affects living styles and habitual practices. Teens don’t know what love is, however being in love can be an infatuation and obsession. Love is time and commitment.

D Jones 3rd

5/4/2019 10:08:11 am

Our generation fall too fast over words and not actions. Then they think oh well since we are in love i control what you do daily. We are young and naive. I also think our hormones do play a huge part in this mind set we have all developed over our high school journey.

Z Holmes Pd 3

5/7/2019 12:40:29 am

Exactly!!!! People dont understand that teens have developing minds. We are not yet equipped to properly hand certain situations dealing with out significant others

M Martinez 3rd

5/4/2019 12:22:44 pm

I don't think todays generation even know what love is, everyone is so unfaithful. People fall in love to easily without knowing the true intentions of someone. They get so delusional when they’re in love and become obsessed once they get heartbroken. Love is a dangerous thing which can be scary at times because people have mental issues. You need to truly know someone to be in love, truly in love.

Khaiya Jefferson

5/5/2019 04:22:21 pm

I agree we don't know what love is now a days .Its hard for this generation to ever find out what it really means because everyone wants to take stuff to the extreme .

C. Williams 6th prd

5/15/2019 03:45:50 pm

Getting to know someone is the most important step before you even say "I love you". I feel like people go based off that puppy dog stage and not the actual dog stage, where people begin to show you who they really are.

Ricardo Israel Montoya

5/5/2019 03:11:09 pm

I believe there is such thing as love at a young age but what i believe that young adults do wrong is try to restrict the partner from doing something or making them dedicate 24/7 of their time to one person when in reality yes have a partner but be able to split everything up by still chasing after your dreams not letting so many things distract you from the most important thing which is yourself.

Khaiya Jefferson

5/5/2019 04:30:51 pm

Today's generation doesn't even know what love is we just take what we hear and see and go off that. But at the end of the day people shouldn't throw the word around because everyone doesn't understand and or know what it means and how to feel about that word.

M.Robinson link

5/13/2019 07:58:36 am

I agree this generation doesn’t know how to show love or feelings they just want to have sex they end up with a bigger responsibility

Aaliyah C 3pd

5/16/2019 10:09:09 am

No cap because some people actually take that word seriously. Like me for example if I tell you I love you I’m going to make sure your straight at all times l.

C. Capel 6th

5/5/2019 10:36:18 pm

Love in today’s generation isn’t genuine it’s more for likes and followers . It doesn’t give you goosebumps nor a smile . I feel as if love shouldn’t be thrown around . People tend to throw out the wrong things and create toxicity rather than what they call love.

Z Holmes Pd 3

5/7/2019 12:38:19 am

Exactly!! everybody loses sight of real love. they mistake it for relationship goals and how many likes that can get on a picture with them and their signifcant other. It's sad

A. Green 3

5/7/2019 09:32:47 am

This is sooo true. Everyone bases their life on social media. Which just messes up what they have in the real world.

T. Jones 2nd

5/6/2019 12:01:26 am

True love can make you do things you wouldn’t have imagined yourself doing. That’s why it is important to get to know someone before you say you love them and can’t live without them. Today we often confuse love with relationships. When you really love someone you only want whats best for them. There should not be a rush on commitment just yet.

Ant Breedlove 3rd

5/6/2019 03:12:44 pm

Everyone has different ways of showing their love

Timothy Hornbuckle 5 period

5/13/2019 07:54:57 am

Your right but people tend to allow that to hender them greatly when it comes to loving an person

Z Holmes Pd 3

5/7/2019 12:37:32 am

This generation is so fixated on the lust they feel towards another person, that they lose sight of important things like common sense. Likely 80% of highschool sweethearts won't last past highschool. he ended his life and another person's all because of his " girlfriend cheating " . smh.

A. Green 3

5/7/2019 09:32:02 am

I totally agree with this. Like people don’t even know where to start in a relationship. They just go straight to sex and wonder what went wrong.

M.Robinson 1st link

5/13/2019 07:57:12 am

I agree teens these days are just having sex without any protection then wonder why when the female end up pregnant

M. Jimerson 2nd

5/13/2019 04:48:26 pm

That just goes to show that people need to focus on school instead of sex and boys and girls or who the latest couple is or who's pregnant.

R. Mbelwa 6th

5/16/2019 01:02:04 pm

That’s true cause if you truly cared about someone you’d want them to better themselves. Education first!

J Morgan 1st period

5/7/2019 07:40:16 am

this Is not on point I just don't know what is. It feels lile many people rush into relationship because they are so ready to see what it is like but they never stop and think do I really want to date or marry this person? Now in this generation if people were to ask that question to themselves they would answer out of how the person looks and what the person have .

Timothy Hornbuckle 5 period

5/13/2019 07:54:05 am

I disagree because if you live someone from first sight like I did then you shouldn’t care either way but that’s just me doe

A. Green 3

5/7/2019 09:26:01 am

This generation doesn’t even understand what love is or how it should be shown. It’s also due to what media portrays a relationship and love is. Like the heavy use of sexual pleasure to show you “love someone” which is incorrect. Also due to the high divorce rate many weren’t raised to know what a real 2 parent home is. So many just go based off of what they see to portray love.

C. Williams 6th prd

5/15/2019 03:43:00 pm

I believe sex is the #1 distractor in a relationship. It blinds the true meaning of love.

Aaliyah C 3pd

5/16/2019 10:06:01 am

I totally agree with you they just use the word for the hype and don’t know the meaning.

Timothy Hornbuckle 5 period

5/13/2019 07:53:01 am

This generation is very surprising due to our lack of effort and outstanding culture differences but we tend to allow things to happen without any lucid reason this allows people to do what they want

M.Robinson 1st link

5/13/2019 07:56:06 am

People think that just because you love someone that you put their needs and priorities over yours. Because if kids are not a responsibility yet than the only thing you should be focus on is your main priorities and what can keep you successful.

J.morgan 1st period

5/13/2019 08:06:17 am

M. Jimerson 2nd

5/13/2019 04:46:29 pm

After reading the article and watching the video, it just comes to show that young men and women don't really know what the meaning of being in love is. Some people today think love and dating is being possessive and most of all, obsessive. The fact that the girls' boyfriend killed an innocent person out of jealousy just shows that teens today are not ready for a real relationship.

Q. Chancellor (5th period)

5/15/2019 09:00:17 am

I agree that this generation of teens are not ready for love at young ages. They have not mentally matured enough to indulge in the action of loving someone or even trying to. Before loving someone, you have to take care of yourself and ultimately find yourself.

Q. Chancellor (5th period)

5/15/2019 08:54:17 am

Love is definitely not what it used to be. This generation has twisted the meaning of love and refrained from finding the true definition of love. Some have even began to fake love for money and social media gain. Their love consist of being extremely possessive and controlling over their significant others life.

S. Houston

5/15/2019 08:22:05 pm

I completely agree, prime example YouTube couples.

L Delley 3rd

5/16/2019 11:48:33 am

I do think love has changed from what it used to be.

R. Mbelwa 6th

5/16/2019 01:00:44 pm

Love is something that us as students usually don’t know what it is now. Somethings are infatuating but if you don’t know how to get it and go then you’ll get stuck. Love sucks. I don’t understand it though.

C. Williams 6th prd

5/15/2019 03:40:50 pm

I think many kids in our generation get love and lust confused. I don't believe they know the real sacrifices that you have to go through in a relationship. Nor do I think they really know what love is. I feel as though many kids my generation are just trying to post cute videos and show off their "loved one", instead of trying to get to know the person and grow with them. It is just a social media stunt nowadays.

S. Houston

5/15/2019 08:22:32 pm

Now this is real! That love and lust confusion is something serious!

J James 6th Period

5/16/2019 09:47:02 am

Exactly, love and lust aren’t the same thing and lust seen as love in this generation.

I. Florence 8th

5/15/2019 07:36:14 pm

This is an extreme example of how I know teenagers (also adults because they can be clueless too) do not understand what love is. Before getting in a relationship, understanding certain perspectives and boundaries should be established. This allows for there to be a standard of respect and propriety. When boundaries and understanding are established, there should be no surprise because it was stated and expected in the beginning. Without boundaries and understanding, event like the one above (less extreme events of course) occur.

S. Houston

5/15/2019 08:21:33 pm

This video was a prime example of how love is taken and used lightly in today’s generation. In the older days it was normal to have a “high school sweetheart” however not in today’s time. Love has been washed clean of its meaning because of social media, upholding appearances, and this “self love” idea. The term “self love” had become an excuse for people to continue toxic behaviors in relationships and love lives. This excused basically says “I love myself so it doesn’t matter what other people think”. Which is horrible ! We must get away from this selfish idea and get back to the true meaning of love !

J James 6th Period

5/16/2019 09:44:37 am

I 100% agree we use that word love so lightly that we don’t even know the meaning anymore

C.Swann 1st

5/16/2019 10:41:26 pm

I think social media plays a major role. We’re infatuated with infatuation. “Find me a boyfriend” “I NEED a prom date” “blackpeoplemeet.com”. Nobody can be alone. We can’t fathom having to be by ourselves.

D. Gibson jr. 1st period

5/16/2019 07:56:27 am

This video is a prime example of how love in our generation is taken for granted. Why would you get into a relationship just to waste the others time by cheating? I can't believe people just use people for materialistic things.

Deja'Nae Byrd link

5/16/2019 08:01:16 am

I feel like this topic is very accurate, many people my age get into what they call a "committed relationship". But while in this relationship they don't take each other seriously and they use the word love freely without care or meaning. I feel like this generation misunderstands what love really is. However they say they'll love someone just because they addicted to there body sexual wise.

J James 6th period

5/16/2019 09:43:09 am

Teenagers today would have no capacity to even feel what real love is. I think that we get caught up in the infatuation of someone and constitute that as love. It isn't, it just lust. Love is feeling shared between two people that share a deep affection for each other. We get so caught up on looks and brands that there is no way we are looking at that person for who they truly are.

L Delley 3rd

5/16/2019 11:47:42 am

I agree no teenager know what love is.

Z. James 8th

5/16/2019 12:17:19 pm

We can’t see anyone for who they are. We see what we want to see, no matter how evil they are.

AaliyahC 3pd

5/16/2019 10:00:51 am

Today’s generation does not know what love is. A week in a relationship kids are already saying I love you.There just using the word just for hype.

Z. James 8th

5/16/2019 12:16:07 pm

We literally throw the term love around like a football. We are just living in a moment.

L Delley 3rd

5/16/2019 11:46:50 am

I don’t think no teenager is really in love. We don’t even know what real love is. What is the reason people get married? If it’s cause of love when that love run out they get a divorce.

Z. James 8th

5/16/2019 12:15:05 pm

Teenagers don’t know about real love. However we can be in love, have love for certain things our significant other may do. We think found everything in our bae/boo when we don’t know anything about them. We don’t know anything about how they live or when how they act in situations. We are clueless of each other.

Wisdom S 5th

5/16/2019 12:49:19 pm

Ant Breedlove 3

5/16/2019 10:18:06 pm

I agree, love isn’t as it seems anymore

R. Mbelwa 6th

5/16/2019 12:57:57 pm

This is something that seems out of a story book. Killing over a girl is nothing to do. Why would you do that as it is a idiotic thing to do. Love is something I’m not afraid I don’t see at the moment; yes you can like someone a lot, you can see that they’re cute and really vibe with them. But that’s not really love but I can’t say o actually know what it is. Maybe when I grow up.

C. Swann

5/16/2019 10:35:48 pm

He only did what society embedded in him. He literally “killed for her” “loved her to death” “nobody else could have her”. We hear it all the time and instead of correcting it we find ourselves attracted to it. We love the fact that people are infatuated with us. Pay 100% attention to us. We would kill for that, and that’s exactly what he did.

L.Richardson

5/16/2019 05:14:58 pm

As far as relationship love goes... I dont know what it is. I always seemed to be let down in every situation so really getting in a relationship has done me no good. Love to me is unconditional and that's my downfall. Love can be a scary thing, like fear of the unknown. Putting your all into a person continuously and not knowing they're doing the same can cause a person to be crazy. Not crazy enough to kill them though. Love is being able to let go for the better good of you or your spouse; having boths best interest at heart.

Ant Breedlove 3

5/16/2019 10:17:36 pm

It seems as though love isn’t at all LOVE anymore...it’s all games and have fun, no real affection

C. Swann 1st

5/16/2019 10:31:01 pm

Maybe the lack of love in our generation pushes us to overcommit. Everyone wants to love so bad. On another note everyone wants to be seen as well. Couples are goals.If you’re single then you have to be lame. Why can’t you find a man/woman? There has to be something wrong with you.

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