In a relationship, you have to be ready to date. What I mean by ready, is to be mature enough to know what you are doing in a relationship. I think you are the most mature at the age of 17 because you will know most of the things you need to know about relationships. 

Relationships are the most healthiest when the people know what they are doing, that is why children should not date in the elementary schools as they are now. Dating in the elementary is wrong because the children do not know what they are doing and also they don't know what it means to be in a healthy relationship. These children think they know what they are doing in a relationship, but a healthy relationship is based on four words: love, commitment, obligation, and responsibility. These children are not ready nor mature enough to know what these words mean or to know how they are used.

In a relationship, the four most words you need to know are love, commitment, obligation, trust, and responsibility. These words need to be known because they are the four most important words. The word love means to have feelings for someone and to really to express yourself to someone. To be committed, is to be ready to be in a relationship and to be ready to express your feelings to your partner. If you're in a relationship out of a sense of duty or due to feeling like you owe your partner something, you're staying because of some form of obligation. Trusting someone means that you think they are reliable, you have confidence in them and you feel safe with them physically and emotionally. Trust is something that two people in a relationship can build together when they decide to trust each other. And last but not the least, to have responsibility in a relationship means to be ready to do your part in the relationship. 

Those words are not meant for children to be in a relationship if they don't know what these words' meanings. Those words are mostly used in middle school ang on up for relationships. Relationships are the best when the people in the relationship know the meaning and know what they are doing.

Also in a relationship, girls would not like to have a boyfriend who is childish and plays entirely to much. I think this because if the boy does play to much, then the girl may not think of his as his age. While I am growing up, I hear people say " Act your age not your shoe size". I think boys or men should listen to the phrase and pay close attention to it to understand it. These days in a relationship, kids think they know what they are talking about but they just don't understand what it means to be in a relationship.