Originally Posted by Charlatan

The love may not compare to the love you know when you are older, but that is just experience and time.

It only stands to reason that the love you felt when you were a teenager is going to be different from what you feel, say, 20 years later. This is owing to personal experience and more time to develop the love you have for someone you've been with for 20 years.

I don't think that devalues the love a teenager feels. It's just different.