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Hi everyone
Beth Tweddle's here with us and we're going to be talking about relationships.
Your first crush and your first date is an important part of becoming a
teenager and it's very good to get some advice from some people who have already been there.
Beth let's talk relationships. How did you feel when you had your first crush?
Dya know when I had my first crush I was kind of nervous I didn't really know
what was going on. All those butterfly feelings and I was a bit like
is this normal and I think you're a bit nervous to talk to your friends about it
because you don't want to
don't want to sound silly. And did you ever want to talk to your mom about it?
I didn't. I'm going to admit that I was quite a shy person and
I was worried of making a fool of myself so I did keep a lot of stuff to myself
and now that I'm older I'm thinking, why did I not just speak to my mom
or to my friends about it. If they spoke to me, then I was quite happy to answer it but I would
never be the first person to speak.
Do you find it hard to date because of all the training? When I was younger it was
really hard. I mean all your friends would be going off to parties and starting to meet
their first boyfriends and they had loads of time to meet in town or to go
to the cinema or something. Whereas I didn't have that spare time I was always in the gym
so
I did feel a little bit left out when I was younger but as you get older you realize
you've got the time to do it.
Do you think you had a good group of friends whilst growing up? I had a brilliant group of friends
they were very supportive of my training and they never thought that
I was dissing them just because I was at the gym they knew that my number one
priority was to be a gymnast
and I never let them feel like they weren't part of it so if I was going to a competition
and it was local I always invited them along.
Did you ever have any fall outs with your friends?
I was really lucky in the fact that I never fell out big
time with any my friends and there was obviously a few fall outs within the group
of friends but
my main piece of advice to anyone is speak to your friends about it if you've got
an issue
don't start talking behind people's backs cuz that's when usually
it err gets out of control. Thanks for talking to us about relationships Beth. If you've
got any questions about growing up
you can ask Vicki at our Lil-Lets Becoming a Teen website.