I am 15 years old and feel that the love for my girlfriend is dying but at the same time I am afraid of being out of love and not being able to fall in love again. What can I do?

You are experiencing something that is absolutely normal. It is not that you're falling out of love with your girlfriend but you are in the process of developing and it is possible that your interest are changing and are not compatible anymore with the ones of your girlfriend.

Try to remember what it was that made you fall in love with that girl and think about what has changed and what it is exactly that you loose interest in or don't like anymore about her.

I went through the same thing when I was your age and I remember that this kind of feeling happened to me while being with my second girlfriend. She was a little chubby but very beautiful. She studied at a catholic school in the city where I lived. She was very good to me and she played the piano very well. She was attentive and delicate. Her parents didn't accept me and mine didn't know more of her than her name.

We had been a couple for more than a year until one day I felt that I didn't need her anymore and that my love for her was fading. Nevertheless she did everything to avoid a break up. But I realized that we didn't share the same interests and worries. She liked a different kind of music than I or every time we saw each other I didn't care about taking her hand, kissing her or receiving a kiss.

Then I told her that our relationship could not go on that way. She was sad but understood and we stopped seeing each other and I stopped visiting her at home. She never asked about me again and that way everything came to an end.

When I first started a relationship with her, I really loved her a lot, loved her beautiful hands, her pretty face. It was a wonderful time of my life, very pure and very young. Just the way it might happen to you. One day you will remember all these beautiful memories and will tell them to your own children or other young people so they will learn to face life.

Later, after we had long broken up and lots of time had passed, we met again as if it was decided that way. We started all over again but broke up a second and definite time later on.

And there came another, new love. It was very intensive, a love that arose, all of a sudden. But even though it was more extensive, it died one day.

What I would like to tell you with that is, these very personal experiences, in our teenage years, we fall in love intensively and later we feel that passion fading. This is characteristic for the stage you are going through right now, the same I was going through and your parents just as well.

But, I tell you again: Try to think of the things that have changed and gave you that feeling because this will be helpful for your future relationships. Have confidence in yourself. And if you decide to end this relationship with your current girlfriend, tell her in a nice, delicate way. Don't try to excuse you from this responsibility but assume it as you will have to do a lot more times in your life and not only in sentimental situations like now.

Asked by a boy from Brazil