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Originally Posted by Clodfobble
What happens when they grow up? Do you still love them?
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It changes. You know, a lot of
parents go thru a kind of grief when their kids hit puberty. They know they can't love their adult children in the same way they did when they were babies, and I guess it's similar.
I have a couple of very close adult friends, one male and one female, who I've been friends with since they were little. I was in love with one of them when she was a child, and she knows about that. It's slightly embarrassing, but not cripplingly so. When she was eleven she would offer and seek advice as easily as she does now. We're pretty close, but no, I'm not in love with her any more. Besides, she has a boyfriend.