Love can be hard. How do you explain this to teenagers?
Maybe the more prescient question is, should you tell this to teenagers. It might seem like you can save them from pain by telling them the realities of love. But maybe that’s not how life works. Who, but the most savvy, ever learned from someone else’s mistakes? Good lord I know I didn’t. My mother was married three times. I wasn’t going to get married til I was 30. I got married for the third time when I was 30. See how that worked out for me?
I tried to learn from my mother’s mistakes but truth is I ended up more like my mother, and going through more of the same experiences as I would ever like to admit.
And usually those mistakes had something to do with love.
