How do you know when your in love?

I wonder if my boyfriend and I have puppy love or the real thing.
At times he can get jealous.
We have good and bad times.
We hangout with each other friends and family.
Our parents know eachother.
We go on each other fam vacations and dinners.
We...

are starting a photo album.
Everyone in school knows us.
Everyone that we know tells us we will last for a loong time.
We give each other advice.
I can write a book about him and he could do that for me.

Is this real?

It sounds like it is real. When your in love you feel like...well just indescribable. You can see yourself growing old with that person and having kids. You think about them all the time, and no one else really matters. There is so much more, but I think you and your boyfriend are in love.

Here's a blog I wrote. Basically how I feel about my boyfriend. Hope this helps you out...

It's weird, you just feel extremely happy and you don't want to do anything else but stare into their eyes. You have those butterflies at first, then the awkwardness goes away, and you feel completely comfortable, and it just feels so right. You cry when they are not around, you miss them so much. Even if they aren't with you for 10 minutes, or 10 days, either way, it feels like a lifetime..and you are compelled to miss them. It feels like that person could do anything, and you'd still be happy no matter what they did. They could hurt you, try to kill you, but you would still love them. You feel like they are your whole world, you want to do nothing but be with them and spend time with them, you commit yourself to them. They are your life. You become each other..you are one person, but in reality your not. When they touch you it's a thrill you can't resist their charm, they are temping...like chocolate. They are a sin. Their love comes sooo fast, it catches you off guard, basically plowing you in the face. Everything turns into a goofy joke. You get each other. You are know everything about each other. I mean, it's so true that you look at them, and you know..they are going to be with you the rest of your life...no matter what happens. Through thick and thin, love is the ultimate thing. Love will keep you together. It will make you prevail. Love is being honest with each other. You can tell them anything. even things you feel guilty about. Your dark secrets are no longer a threat. You can just pour them out. If they love you they won't care. Everything else is a big blur...no one else really matters. You think about how you want to spend your whole life with this one amazing, indescribable person, and how you want to have kids and that perfect house, the perfect family. Perfection, a perfect fantasy of things to come. Basically the one you love is perfect. They are perfection..to you. Other people become unappealing to you. Honestly no one else matters. You don't see flaws you see beauty and the love you have for them. I thought I had love before...but I didn't. This is way more powerful! Before, I'm guessing that was lust, or maybe desperation or perhaps just love but not with the right person. Now I know I have it right. I have the truest love anyone person can possibly have..be jealous, because it's not easy to find. I hope that you can find a love this amazing, because it is truly indescribable.The shear thought of it makes my mind blow.

that was soo nice

I don't know I dont know what actually love is but I do know a lot about it and it sounds like the real deal

I can tell you what love isnt...love isnt sex! I thought it was love for me at 16, but I was wrong. The truth is, young love doesnt last. Love has more than one meaning. Between 13-17 you are surely allowed to feel a kind of love that has to do with attraction, new feelings, excitement and that is valid. Later love means a deeper appreciation of who a person is deep down inside and is more than just kisses and love notes. It includes support and dealing with more serious relationship issues. 13 yr old brain is capable of a certain level of love and attraction; it prepares us for what comes later (relationship training wheels if you will.) Before the age of 18 however the brain literally can't comprehend the higher more serious types of love the developmental hardwiring is not there yet, it's just in a stage of development. After 18 and maybe 21 then you really are capable of dealing with adult love and will have the capacity to understand the future consequences of our current actions. It's scientifically proven.