High school relationships are the building blocks of how we learn to love. They teach you your love language and how to have healthy relationships. Such important connections hold great importance in our lives. Sometimes people may try to convince you otherwise, but in the end, this connection is momentous to the people involved in a relationship, no matter the age.
High school is a time for you to explore. It allows you to become who you are going to be, and relationships make up a big part of who you are. They allow you to explore likes and dislikes. They allow you to shape how you want to be treated. When you like something you want to see more of it in your life. These things are vital to our happiness. With learning our dislikes, we find out things we don’t want to be around and what makes us uncomfortable.
While parents and adults in our lives may tell us that ‘high school love doesn’t mean anything,’ or ‘this relationship won’t matter to you when you’re older,’ this is because they have lived their lives and have matured past who they were in high school. So to them, they look back on their fleeting moments of adolescence and see their relationships as immature when they didn’t work out.
To high schoolers, these relationships do matter. They have only matured to their high school selves and haven’t lived the rest of their life. Relationships with high schoolers are just as real as they are when you’re 30. While the adults may only be minimizing your relationship to spare your heart from possible heartbreak, it’s only seen as discouragement and negativity to the listener.
As high schoolers mature, they’ll look back and see the flaws in their early relationships. That’s not because those relationships didn’t mean anything, or that they were a waste of time, it just means we’ve matured. Such a perspective can only come with age and wisdom; the kind you can only gain from living your life to the fullest and allowing new experiences to play out.
These early relationships are vital to how we learn to form healthy connections and learn how to handle an unhealthy situation. Relationships are needed to learn how to form connections with others.
A romantic attraction can come in many forms. Learning how to navigate your feelings, wants, and needs from someone else in a romantic relationship isn’t something you just know. It’s learned through trial and error.
Take each experience provided to help you learn more about yourself. Learn how to let love in and form lasting bonds, and know it’s okay to experience heartbreak along the way. High school relationships are important, and dating won’t get easier until you learn from your past experiences.
