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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 and 4 year olds saying that someone is pretty and they want to marry them isn't a crush.  My 4 year old son says that to me all the time, and he doesn't have a crush on me.

It's more like the shy different feeling awkwardness that tends to start around 11 or 12, probably fifth grade.[/quote]
I'd say that's exactly what it is.  The "shy different feeling awkwardness" is the first stirrings of sexual attraction, not just a crush.[/quote]

We have different definitions of a crush.  For me, a crush includes a almost forbidden aspect.  Like you do not want the other person to know.  And it is tied to sexual stirrings.[/quote]

I agree with you. It includes a sexual aspect and the preschool age stuff mentioned here doesn’t fit my definition.[/quote]

My crushes - which I can remember as far back as kindergarten - had a sexual aspect, even though I had only the vaguest theoretical ideas about how sex worked or what it might feel like. I definitely imagined kissing girls back then. I had no such thoughts about boys. I don't know how to describe those feelings except as a crush.[/quote]

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