This topic started after a conversation with one of my best girlfriends in Vegas.  We talked about my first boyfriend and how deep in love I felt and talked so much about him during my sophomore year of high school. I reflected how much I was not really looking for a boyfriend but a father figure.  Growing up in a Samoan household 5 siblings, stay at home momma who was on me all the time and my dad worked all the time but never engaged us as his children.  I've never really seen my father display affection towards my mother, never seen him hug her or look at her with loving eyes.  I told myself I never want that for my love life.  Little did I know, the simple fact that I was looking for a father figure ended up with me finding a boyfriend who gave me all the attention I desired at the young age of fifteen years old.  My siblings and I grew up somewhat close I would say a few of us, the boys could go where ever they pleased they didn't ask they just said, "I'm going to Eric's house and I'll be back."  And that was that, for me I had to play a sport just to be allowed to go outside and on a good day my mom would let me walk to my Filipina best friend's house that lived 20 blocks up the street from us which felt like forever and I only had an hour to go.  I thought that mess was unfair. I was young, impressionable, I was unsure of what I wanted to do with my life because my father never talked to me on importance of purpose.  He never engaged me, he never came to any of my sports events or social events for school only our graduations from elementary to high school.  In between I remember a lot of his drunken nights and distance between my mother and him, it was like they had an arranged agreement from how he tells in, my mom never said anything at all.  As I look at my fifteen year old daughter today, I do my very best to ensure she knows God's Word over her life that she is Proverbs 31, Jeremiah 29;11 and Philippians 4; 11-13, if you don't know what those are, you must go and check it out.  My Young son's as their mother I did and do everything I can to ensure they are surrounded by Solid, Amazing, Purpose-filled, God-fearing, Loving and Caring, Hard-Working Men, so they leave no excuses that their daddy wasn't there for them and that all my kids know who they are.   My seventeen year old son is dating like his ninth girlfriend and has been dating for about seven months now, yet both he and his girlfriend are not sure what they want to do in their lives.  How do I know I asked them a second time because the first time sounded like some BS.  This is why "Young Love" was on my mind.