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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My experience is this kind of fake dating (they don't even really speak much) begins in middle school.  Which is 6th or 7th grade.  And all of them are not doing it.  Some are.  It's an age where they are desperately wanting to seem independent and older and they are just trying on all of it to see how it feels.  I think 10 is very young for this.

I would not freak out but I would have a conversation with him about it and just let him know it's early to be thinking about all of this.  But non-judgmental and open. Calling it a "relationship" is a stretch.   A lot of these kids are just going along with the peer group or doing this to fit in and the whole thing makes them uncomfortable.  Even in early middle school.[/quote]

OP here. Yeah, that’s my intuition. Bottom line is we’re going on vacation next week and then the back to school scramble begins. I’m 100% confident that whatever “relationship” this is will just fizzle out, if it was even there to begin with. But I do think it’s worth starting a conversation about friendships vs “relationships” and how the latter are for when kids are much older. My husband is mostly worried about the age gap and that this could be some sort of predator/abuse situation, but I just don’t see it. Definitely odd though and not what I thought I’d be dealing with over this summer break. [/quote]

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