And I'd agree with your sentiment, so long as no one thinks that makes the seriousness of those moments the first time around any less serious.  I love my wife in a way I could have never understood at twelve or thirteen, in a way far better than I would have been capable of.  But that doesn't change the fact that I threw myself with wreckless abandon into those first moments in a way I never could have when I met her.

And in some ways I'll never understand why it's called "puppy love" when it's not real.  Whoever put that phrase into practice obviously never saw a puppy's love.  There's few things in this world more wholesome and serious than a puppy's love.

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