[Face Up.]

I honestly think your mom is wrong about dating and having crushes. Kids have little childhood crushes, and then they tend to start dating either in middle or high school depending on the person.

My parents are in their mid seventies and my mom met my dad at sixteen! They're still happily married to this day. They definitely aren't the only people in the world that have dated at fifteen/sixteen either. I think people have been dating as teenagers for a long, long time, and it's not going away any time soon.

It's not disgusting to date as a teenager, and there isn't necessarily a problem unless there's some kind of abuse/assault, or if one person is a minor while the other person is an adult. Two similarly-aged people in a healthy relationship isn't necessarily bad.