Awwww… to be young & in love! <3

2 years ago, my Babyson experienced his first puppy love at 11! Too young, if I may say so. But when love comes a knockin’, what can you do but to open your heart & let it in?

So funny! She’s right there pala in the background, haha!! 🙂 They didn’t have anything going on yet here, it was 2 months after that their “love affair” started.

She was 9, he was 11. They were classmates (grades 4, 5 & 6 were in one class), she had a major crush & pursued him. It was cute while it lasted. And now they have broken up, my son’s first heartbreak! 🙁

One night after basketball practice, my son just came up to me saying he was fed up & he really couldn’t take it anymore. Too much jealousy.. too much demands. He felt constricted.

I must say I saw this coming, but I’m just the mother right? Who listens to their mother when they’re “in love” ??? They were both just too young for a relationship. Too immature to handle the roller coaster emotions that came with it.

Flowers for their 1st year anniversary! ;P

She comes from a family of 5, and the youngest to boot! So she really craved a lot of attention from my son. At first, it was cute how he would try to act so grown-up and all protective towards her. But then, it came to a point that he had to report ALL his activities to her & not talk to other girls anymore because she got too jealous.

His ate took a picture of him with his gifts for their 2nd year anniversary.

My son’s “pwincess” with one of the stuffed toys he gave her..  the last one, apparently! 🙁

She likes to make my son jealous & would go to great lengths to make sure he does. She would befriend all his guy friends in school & pursue them with a passion (but my son wasn’t allowed to have any female friends ha!). Just last december, she invented a fake account in facebook, pretending to have an “admirer”. Her mistake was that it was just too obvious that the “admirer” was her! ;P The supposed “admirer” kept “liking” all her pictures & left positively adoring comments. “He” would also inbox my son asking if my son was mad or jealous because of all the comments. When we looked at this “guy’s” account, we found out that he only had 2 facebook “friends”.. my son & the girl. Who makes a facebook account with just 2 friends??? And the face was that of a foreign young actor 😛 Busted!

A month ago, they had a major fight because she was jealous of my son’s classmate. She returned all the gifts my son gave her & they didn’t talk for quite some time. I knew then that there was trouble in paradise. Put simply, my son has outgrown her & they have so obviously drifted apart. They had different interests, different friends, different priorities.

Last week, while we were in tagaytay with some of my son’s friends, she kept texting him again. She was jealous because there were 2 girls in the group. I could sense that my son was already feeling like a caged bird because he never tells me anything, but this time he was opening up a little already. He hinted that he wanted to break up but just didn’t know how to go about it without hurting her. I said for sure, there will be casualties! But be a gentleman and let her break up with him instead of the other way around. Give her saving grace.

Lo’ & behold, he didn’t have to wait long! ;P Two nights ago during basketball practice, she texted him again complaining that they were always fighting & already drifting apart. She wanted him to call her to fix their relationship. It gave my son the perfect opportunity to break up with her. My heart bled for him, knowing what he was about to do was hard. But I knew I couldn’t shield him from this one. It was something he had to do for himself.

Their last valentine! 🙁  Sadly, they have truly grown apart.. not just physically, but also mentally & emotionally. That’s what happens to young love, sweet love! :((

Haaaayyy!!! Young love sweet love!! I hope he doesn’t get burnt from this one experience. I told my son to enjoy life first, he is way too young for a commitment. He has so many years ahead of him, so many things to do & accomplish. For now, love can wait. ;P