What age were you when you first experienced love?

You mean outside parent- child family love?

I've been in lust more than love..Honestly I'm not sure its ever really happened so far.

I was 17.  I married him two years later.

0. My mother.

  I'm not sure how old I was, but it was when I received my first grammar book. 

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Kindergarten. Her name was Diane.

I was 6.
On my first day of first grade, I found myself seated across the table from an enchanting little girl named Suzanne. Big green eyes, great laugh and long brown hair. The face of an angel. I was awestruck. 

We became instant friends, confidants (of a kind) and favored partners in class activities, and remained so until she and her family moved to another state after 7th grade. 
She is a legal assistant now, with 3 grown kids. This post was edited by Don Barzini at August 24, 2019 6:28 PM MDT

A crush I think 3rd or 4th grade, Love or lust 15 at Summer Camp

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My first incarnation and before.  I'm sure.

LOVE IS.

You don't experience it. You are part and parcel OF it.

If you mean a  crush on someone who attracts me?  I guess that would have been my mother who held me as a baby.  Then my dad.   What could be more loving that that?

Then there were kids my age. I felt real attraction to each new friend I made. Meeting people and loving it is something most children experience.  It is a natural occurrence.  

Then there are the opposite sex attractions.  Then there are the same sex attractions to those who are so attracted.  

My first crush was silly.  I cannot even understand why I wanted this kid to like me.  I was a CHILD.  I was in the 5th grade.  I think that for most of us?  Our choices are that random when we pick our life partner.


Most of us do not even know why we are attracted to whomever we are attracted to.  

We may laud their good qualities.  We may even celebrate their naughty ones, but we really do not know why we have to have the one we want.

The ones that manage to work out, is when people do NOT choose their mates in this manner.  It really helps to seek out qualities and beliefs that match your own.  It also helps to have  a moral core that both of you believe in more than any selfish desires that may tempt you.  The union is the most important bond, not the self.  That is a great lesson in love if done right.

It hardly ever is.

But I have met great people on here and great people in life that have such wonderful marriages that it heals my heart and gives me great hope that there are a huge number of couples that don't have their heads up their hineys and actually have gotten it right.

Those people have the gift.  Those people have learned part of the secret of how to love, and that is HOW TO SHARE.

I have no idea. If my mother loved me I don't remember.

It's a toss up between Slartibartfast's mother and my first cat, Susan.

I was in kindergarten, so at age 5. His name was Kenny and I showed him my underpants.