Why do some adults say that teenagers dont know what love is?

Why is it that a lot of adults believe this?Why do some adults say that teenagers dont know what love is?
The arrogance of the unloved aged. Ignore them.Why do some adults say that teenagers dont know what love is?
The adults who say it often don't know much more than the teens they are criticizing.





Love in the heart is a metaphysical reaction in the mind to shared values.





Teens too often mistake lust for love, not having known real love. Adults sometimes do the same, but cloak it with rationalizations because they don't have those shared values either--but they think they do because lust--not love--is blind.
When guys are teenagers they tend to think more with their krotches. It's vulgar, but it's the truth. When guys say they like a girl at that age, it's mostly because she's attractive, hot, and or popular. They have a shallow perception of love. I mean, I liked a girl in high school all because she had a nice pair of cheerleader legs, shallow? OH Yeah! and the thing is, at the time I started devoloping false feelings of what I thought was love, when in fact all it was was a fixsation and a lust for her looks. I was too naive to figure out that a lust for someone's looks isn't love. Physical Attraction isn't love, it's preference. While emotional attraction is love. Where you ignore looks and find out what's deep within, and yes, there are a lot of adult men who think with their krotches too, but mostly as you get older your perception of love goes from being shallow, to a deeper perception of love.





In the end my advice to you is, ask your parents what their perception of love is, and to teach you what love is if they're so smart. Love is something you find out for yourself. Some figure it out sooner than others and some never find out. By the context of this question it sounds as if you know what love is. It's all about emotional maturity, if you have that emotional maturity, than you definently know what love is. Good luck man, I hope I helped.
because adults have been through a lot of experiences with love and pain and they want to spare their child so they say that hoping it will but what they don't realize is that they are not validating their children's feelings and I think that could potentially make their children feel like their parent's don't respect their feelings. It sounds like cruelness, but it isn't necessarily meant that way.
because they went threw hurt times. they htought they were in love at one point and they dont want you to make the same mistakes. but if you talk to the people who have been with their childhearts and are still together then they will not say you dont know what love is beacuse they were and still are in love.
Because they have not lived long enough and had enough life experiences to know what love is.





There is a big, big difference between love, deep true lasting love, and infatuation.





Enjoy being young while you are young--there's plenty of time to find real love and be married when you are older.
Because infatuation usually comes first and a lot of times the younger you are the more naivve you can be and maybe not fully understand the difference.
Because they think teens dont know nothing and they know it all and im not being rude it's just the truth im very much in love and im a teenager and i would die for him so adults think that know what it is all the time hope i helped
Because parents and adults can be stupid. They don't know how you feel about someone and i think they only say that because they don't want you to really fall in love.
Because a teenager's brain is not fully developed. This does not mean a teen cannot fall in love, but I suppose that's where adults get it.
You think you know but in truth what you know is raging hormones that want to get out of control
I personally think that


A. they have forgotten any kind of youth


B. they did not experience it


C. they are cynical
...because adults who complain don't know what love is...