Bryan Adams sang that he wants to be “18 until I die”. Such is the spirit that underlies the teen age; it is one period that everyone wants to go back again and again. Life is full of uncertainties and we should try to live for the moment and not for tomorrow. The benevolence of the teen age is such that they are often ignorant of the consequences of their action that are spontaneous and devoid of any rationality. This makes them vulnerable to commit mistakes that may have an effect on their life. This is the time when one steps in the blissful world of love. This is the time when they would love like there is no tomorrow.

Lack of maturity and honesty in most of these teen age relationship often result in disharmony characterize by abuses which may be verbal, physical or sexual. There can be a situation when one of the partners in the relationship will try to exert control and decide unitarily any course of action. This is very disturbing. The other person in the relationship suffers in the due course of physical, verbal and emotional abuse. At a tender age, such an enormous mental agony would cast a doom in the life of the person and the life of person may go in for a tail spin. This is such a fragile age that everyone related to the teenage person should act in a very conspicuous way without trespassing the thin line of the mental trauma. The abuser will not start abusing from the very moment of the start of the relationship. It is often seen that the person will be quite loveable in those initial days. But with the turn of the clock, that person may use abusive tactics that may bamboozle you about the true intent of that person. Sooner or later, the magnitude and dimension of the abuse will undergo a makeover and it will become a regular affair. This may include sexual coercion, violent physical abuse and emotional torture and blackmailing. It is hard for a person of that age to come out of such mess and even if the person gets out of it, one remains susceptible to the fact that may bring the victim back into the relationship.

The eventual result is that the self esteem of the victim will hit the nadir and it may become very difficult to regain faith and confidence for the victim. The myth that it is only relevant in only a particular section of the society is absolutely rubbish. Such abuse is omnipresent. The situation become even more precarious since the victim is often made to believe that one is responsible for all the mess surrounding the teen relationship. To find an escape from this mess, it is always advisable that parents come to their child’s rescue and help them understand why it may not be a good idea to continue with the relationship. Although this is a very dicey matter, it is the parents who have enough reason and logic to be at their child’s toes and help the victim to overcome the trauma of a wrecked teen relationship.