Why do adults always think they know better?

Tell you what, wait until you are 25 and then look back at who you 'loved' at 14...and try not to laugh.

they are usually right

With age comes wisdom and experience. Wisdom that us young people can not fully understand until we have experienced life fully.

That depends on the Adult.

well.. being older is not the only difference. the difference is in fact they have lived through more, experienced more, and been wrong more than a younger person. they are knowledgeable enough to know that just because a young person thinks he or she is in love, they are probably not. why? because the adults themselves were once of course young, and probably thought that they themselves were in love at least once when they now know they were not. also, i do not believe younger adults are as capable of understanding love as older adults, for the belief that love is not some phenomenon that occurs abruptly are out nowhere, but instead is something learned and experienced over time, something that younger people have not had the time to find out nor understand

they know you know what love is. in theory, practice and theory are the same thing. in practice... they're often not. When you're older, you're starting a family, you know what is responsible, and you're thinking about your bills and your children etc etc, then that's like adult love. when you throw all of that away, and just do everything for the sake of you and your lover... that's young love. Neither are better or worse, but adults think they know better because, they've most likely had young love before, and got their hearts broken. like me. I would tell a 20 year old couple madly in love with each other that, it may not last... no I wouldn't tell them that, but I would think it. because I was there once. That's what adults have over you youngins. it's happened to them before.

We have lived and loved...for the majority of us, we are not still in "love" with the ppl we dated when we were 15...we have more life experience. I don't think it's our intention to be patronizing, we are just saying that you will most likely find true love when you get older, and teenage crushes happen to all of us...you get over it, and it's not as serious as you think it is when you are a child. Plus, it illegal to be with someone over 18 when you are a child...(12-17 is not a young adult...it's a child)

Part of growing up is going through the phase you are right now - thinking that adults don't really understand where you are coming from. I've been there and thankfully made it through that phase of my life. Good luck...and try to remember that your parents are usually right about these things, no matter how much it doesn't seem that way.

Adults think children don't know what love is based on experience and knowing full-well of the naivety that comes with youth. There will come a time when you'll think back to this day and realize how naive you were.