To think that 14 year olds in a relationship should not be classed as 'couples'.

[Elendon]

It just beggars belief that this should be the case. They are not in a relationship, nor are they couples. Nor should they be seen as being so. How can two 14/15 year old children be seen as being in adult enough to do the things 'couples' do?

Ok (btw milky not murky) so I've explained why they're seen as a couple, can you explain why they're not?

You and everyone else Maud

Elendon steady on!

I have only read your OP, not the responses, but I agree, they're not a 'couple' unless they are a couple of (schoolchildren/children/friends).

I think it's a sign of the times and goes hand in hand with people proclaiming that boyfriends of a few weeks are DPs or partners.

It's sounds very daft when you hear it but they're not hurting anybody, just bolstering their own self-esteems, and I can't get exercised about it even if it's a bit jarring. Let them get on with it because you can't prescribe how people refer to each other.

So Murky you think that teenagers from 13 years and onward who get into a relationship are seen as a couple but this only applies if they are around the same age?

elendon can you seriously not understand that you're not explaining yourself?
You're just repeating the same statement over and over, but not explaining WHY.

elendon you are way too invested in this. And you are fucking WRONG. HTH.

You are talking bs.

What constitutes a couple. Two people (I.e a couple of people) who are in a relationship. Really very simple.

It's milky

Nope not same age, there's a difference between an age gap and child abuse!

If both similar age is one not an adult who is grooming the other then yes they're a couple...

If one is an adult who's groomed a child then no not a couple, though they might think they are but we all obviously know that's not the case,

... but I've just scrolled back through and read some of your latest posts OP and they're bonkers.

Elendon it is extremely poor manners to denegrate simeone else's intelligence just because you can't articulate your own views clearly. Which you haven't at any point throughout this thread.

You owe Maud an apology.

A dictionary definition of a couple:

"two people who are married or otherwise closely associated romantically or sexually"

There you are. You explain why you disagree with that in the case of teenagers.

And please stop talking about older men having sec with underage girls, no one here has condoned that it even raised it.

Fuck me. Now if we don't agree we are advocating child abuse?

A 20 year old having sex with a child isn't a couple for obvious reasons.

People have explained again and again, what a couple means.

What difference to you does it make if some is called a couple or not?

I have just eaten a couple of donuts.

The donuts were not in a romantic or sexual relationship. There were however 2 of them, therefore there were a couple of donuts.

Does that make 'couple' easier for you to understand?

They were two teenagers in a relationship (you called it a relationship) two (a couple is two). It's called definition. How you interpret the word is your own problem.

Doesn't actually have to be an adult to be true and convicted of abuse. I've worked with 14/15 year old boys who were charged for having sex with 11/12 year old girls, a couple ended up on the sex offenders register in the time I knew them. I worked with a couple of 15/16 year old girls who had sex with 12/13 year old boys who were never prosecuted, dispite being bery predatory. Side note ofcourse.

Re: couple, I heard much more aww what a cute couple when I was a teen than as an adult, it was a sweet innocent remark but I guess the term couple is used differently in different areas in that respect. As many terms are.

OP will argue that they were a pair of doughnuts, as no attachment, sexually or otherwise.

Although who knows with doughnughts, that hole has to be there for a reason.

😂 @stratters

Elendon is obsessed with this crime (see other threads) and has some strange agenda to with it judging by her posts but is trying to wrap that up in stupid threads about couples.

The doughnuts also were not older than 18 so couldn't possibly be in a couple!

What about a polo and a tic tac

This thread is so funny Is OP drunk?

When I was 14 me and my 16 year old boyfriend were a couple. we were a couple because
a) we were sleeping together, exclusively
b) we did couple things like going on dates, buying each gifts, snogging in the woods.
c) we were in love, in a romantic sex. We were committed and spent a huge amount of time together listening to tupac and red hot chili peppers songs on loud to mask the sounds of having sex from our parents

so, this is why i think we were a couple. We were together until I was 21. We split up because we grew apart and changed, but that happens to people of all ages in relationships.

is that reason enough OP?

What about a polo and a tic tac

Filth, Moz FILTH

StrattersOfMN Thu 20-Oct-16 15:47:08
OP will argue that they were a pair of doughnuts, as no attachment, sexually or otherwise

When dh asks how many donuts I have eaten I will reply 'a pair' and see what he says