Right age to date?

Any and all invalidation only comes from others invalidating.  
Its good to start to just separate out who validates you and know your are not alone.  Something can be done about it.  
The toughest thing for all of us is to learn to be our own best friend first.  Believe me, coming from a family of 6 kids (and I'm a twin) is still a challenge.  I take hikes and walks around my environment each day and remind myself that I have to do something for me too like shopping or eat and sleep well and look beautiful naturally.  There are people that influence us and sometimes getting a few new friends that care about you the way you care about them and it is an exchange flow that brings the mind and spirit up, its a good thing.

Be careful on the web PLEASE.  We do have teen rules that we want all to take responsibility for following and helping other teens be safe on any including this social network.  Please check these Teen rules out

You are beautiful and vulnerable and will be approached.  Please check with aki or Siona or you can write to me to first be safe.  Once you are safe and not giving out your phone, address or private e-mail to anyone that hasn't been checked out with our Gaia Team, you will be meeting other people that will help give you tools to differentiate the men you meet in life or especially the ones on line which is truly a blind meet and if not with a group, can be dangerous.

I am not here to put fear but just awareness to be safe and smart about this.18 is about when I began to date.  There are a lot of teens on my page and I will write to you and give you my girlfriends that can give good advice too as I am here to safe point this leaving this door open for more comments.  Write to me anytime and do ask Siona if there is any confusion on following your heart to meet some very awesome people here.  I am more like a big sister but decisions are all yours.


Hope this helps,Kathy

I would say you are quite normal, there is no right or wrong time, just make friends with both sexes and don't rush in to anything you don't feel ready for, If a man really cares about you he will wait and get to know you as a person first before going further, the sort of bloke who is only after another conquest won't hang around.  When you know each other very well,  trust  and love a partner, intimacy is so much more satisfying and exiting and believe me well worth waiting for. If you give yourselves time to get to know each other well, it is easier to know when it is just infatuation, infatuation fades fairly quickly, love deepens with time.  

I agree with both pieces of advice…and merely wanted to add… I started dating at 19 and I mean that was my 1st date! So you haven't beat my record yet! Don't rush, enjoy  life let it happen naturally.