I like Prey4tomorrow’s advice. Since you are 16, and your hormones are coursing through your body helping you to grow, but causing extra vivid emotions as a side effect, take a break from dating. Hang out with your friends in groups, and allow yourself to have your emotions, but try and remind yourself (I know this his hard to do!) that you’re going to have at least 10 and possibly 20 years to date before you decide to marry — if you do. You have lots of time to find out about yourself, young men, friends and what you want in life.
Hearts get broken and feelings get elated and dashed normally in a relationship, and surviving the ups and downs — and eventually learning to appreciate them and even find the poetry in them — is what makes you have character and maturity. Hurt is part of life. And so is love. You’ll have PLENTY of both in time.
All men are not alike, although like women and all humans, men, too all share some of the same characteristics — so rather than get bitter and think they’re all awful, or act naive and think all men are terrific — try and gain a little distance and see if you can’t balance enjoying, and studying people and their behaviors so you don’t feel like such a victim of your emotions — and theirs.
I hope that helps. 🙂
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