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Originally Posted by CleverName
In my experiance, not being "exclusive" during the teen years seems to create the problems you state. Most girls that age would probally be a little ticked if you told them you were dating other people too.
I understand this idea and think its great. However, I do not think most poeple would agree to such arangments, unless you wanted to keep it a secret, but that could cause major problems later on.
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I agree with what is said here, as a teenager myself with an exclusive boyfriend fro the past two years. It would be devistating to think that parhaps my boyfriend was also seeing somebody else.
However i do believe this may work if as you start dating sombody, you have a conversation about the matter, ask what both people think and then working from there. It may be difficulte though as there are alot of women (especialy of a teenage age) who only believe in being exclusive.
There are also problems with both teenage boys and girls on a maturity level. If a teenager does descide to live thelifestyle of being unexclusive, a nasty reputation tends to follow. This of course is not wright, as no one has the right to make these judgments but the lack of maturity from these people will make it inevitable and however mature a person thinks they are to be able to deal with this, they will still be find it very hard to have a healthy social life with people.
I would also like to say that you can still be exclusive and have a healthy social calendar, as not all social activities involve in dating. There are many people including myself who can hold down an exclusive relationship and have a full calender, because i also have alot of friends, and of course there is no reason why others can't live that way.