# Is having a girlfriend in 7th grade normal? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 24, 2024, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275 "2024-03-24T06:08:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/41 "2024-03-24T22:34:29Z")
God damned phone! Try this: > Which means they sqeamishly skipped 100% of the important stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/42 "2024-03-24T22:36:26Z")
Close. 😄 ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2024, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/43 "2024-03-24T23:12:08Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > My Mom radar is pinging. > > I feel slightly responsible for our OP. We’re not _their_ mom, though. Which may, for any of various reasons (not all of which reflect poorly on their family), be the point of coming here. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/44 "2024-03-25T00:19:17Z")
That sounds legit. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/45 "2024-03-25T00:23:18Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > In 7th grade I was 11-12yo. > Thrown in with older kids. > I couldn’t have been less ready to have a boyfriend. > Mostly I walked around afraid someone would talk to me. Yet in many countries (and Kansas) you can be married at that age. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/46 "2024-03-25T00:29:09Z")
If you, perhaps are making some fun of my living in **Arkansas** , I find it highly offensive. It’s age seventeen here with parental and judge consent. I just looked and it’s age16 in Kansas, with the same consents. Just because it’s the South does not mean we’re ignorant. Ignorance can live anywhere. If it’s a joke, I laugh. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/47 "2024-03-25T00:33:51Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > If you, perhaps are making some fun of my living in **Arkansas** , I find it highly offensive. Sorry to disappoint you but I said **Kansas** not Arkansas and I know the difference between the two. And my comment is based on the fact that **Kansas** (note: I did not say Arkansas) has no statutory minimum age for marriage with parent consent. Guess you need to reserve that high offense for another of my posts. You may think we all know everything about you, but I had no clue where you lived before your post. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/48 "2024-03-25T00:36:17Z")
**Moderating** Refrain from lashing out and attacking other posters outside of the pit. Please show some restraint. ---
**Author:** ![GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grunthostheflatulent/32/21319_2.png) [@GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrunthosTheFlatulent)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/49 "2024-03-25T00:42:02Z")
> **hid off topic post** > > I smell a sock. There’s nothing to stop a child from asking for advice here but it seems improbable. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/50 "2024-03-25T00:43:51Z")
**Moderating** Do not call posters socks or trolls outside of the pit. You can flag your suspicions, but don’t post them in thread ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/51 "2024-03-25T00:44:32Z")
Oh. Okay. I’m sorry. Won’t happen again. (Answering my mod note) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/52 "2024-03-25T00:48:31Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I just looked and it’s age16 in Kansas, with the same consents. Actually it is 15 with Judge consent. My error is that it was until 2006 there was no minimum age in no minimum age in Kansas so I should have said “until recently, Kansas” ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/53 "2024-03-25T00:49:09Z")
@SaSaLeLe2011 , another piece of advice for somebody your age who might be worried about their “date ability”. Become _interesting_. Your age is a _prime_ age to develop some sort of skill. Learn to play a musical instrument. See if you can sing. Learn magic. If you are athletically inclined, try to maximize your skills. Start exercising. Something like that. These sorts of things will help you find opportunities to date later in life. For example, you might end up in a band, or can entertain people at a party with sleight of hand, or get known as the “buff guy”. Those are the kinds of traits that can make you attractive in life. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/54 "2024-03-25T00:49:21Z")
OK, this is really not on-topic, drop it please. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/55 "2024-03-25T00:51:05Z")
Gotcha. Just being a pedant against myself. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/56 "2024-03-25T00:53:38Z")
> [@Moriarty](#): > > Learn magic Yay, I get to be a poster again. Really? Magic? Are you Neil Patrick Harris? I don’t think magic is good advice, but the rest looked solid. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/57 "2024-03-25T00:54:55Z")
I was gonna post but too many flags and mod notes- obviously this is a sore and delicate subject for many. Post on, but please follow your nice Mods instructions. ---
**Author:** ![GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grunthostheflatulent/32/21319_2.png) [@GrunthosTheFlatulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrunthosTheFlatulent)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/58 "2024-03-25T01:03:40Z")
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**Author:** ![SaSaLeLe2011](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@SaSaLeLe2011](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaSaLeLe2011)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/59 "2024-03-25T01:07:32Z")
Yes, I know it all lmao. A lot of yall joined before I was born ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2024, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-having-a-girlfriend-in-7th-grade-normal/999275/60 "2024-03-25T01:08:01Z")
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