Despite the claim that puppy love might muck up our ability to form happy relationships later on, there’s something intoxicating about that first teenage dip into the dating pool. But the shelf life for romantic love — and in particular limerence, the near-obsessive intense period of attraction that’s marked by behavioral components like “awkwardness, stuttering [and] shyness," i.e., that two-week stretch before prom — is brief. Maybe that’s we stare so hard at, and project so furiously onto, the relationships of teenage celebrities.
If our real-world first crushes set “unrealistic benchmarks” that subsequently ruin our adult love lives, then what is the fallout of watching our celebrity crushes fall in and out their first loves? (Click image for a gallery of teen stars in love.) Miss Havisham spent decades in a decaying wedding dress; limerence-nostalgic adults today just open a tabloid magazine and feast on the young love lives of Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez.
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