Even though they were very young when they entered into a relationship, there is no denying the love and depth of emotions singers Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez felt for each other.
"We were so in love. Nothing else mattered," Bieber shared during an interview with Complex Magazine. "We were all about each other. But when it's like that and you get your value from that, people will always disappoint you. Your girl or your dude, they're always going to disappoint you. Your full identity can't be in that person. My identity was in her. Her identity was in me."
Their romance inevitably fizzled because they just weren't ready to handle the complexities of a serious relationship, but Bieber feels grateful to have experienced it nonetheless because there were a lot of valuable lessons he learned from his relationship with Gomez.
"Don't fall in love," he jokingly said. "No, I'm just kidding. I learned a lot. I moved in with my girlfriend when I was 18. Started my own life with her. It was a marriage kind of thing. Living with a girl, it was just too much at that age."
He continued: "When stuff would happen, I would lose my freakin' mind, and she would lose her mind, and we would fight so hard because we were so invested in each other. Love is a choice. Love is not a feeling. People have made it seem in movies that it's this fairy tale."
It has been several years since Bieber and Gomez officially split, but it seems doubtful that the two have really gotten over each other since they still talk about their relationship constantly.
During an earlier interview with Elle Magazine, Gomez maintains that she "genuinely" still cares for Bieber, and that she will "forever support him and love him in a way that" only they will understand.
She believes that Bieber feels exactly the same way. In fact, Gomez said that Bieber is very respectful of her decision to try and navigate the dating field again.
"Finding somebody is not my main focus," she explained. "I've dated people. I've been on a few dates, which is really exciting. But I've never wanted to get into anything serious, because I kind of did that. I have my guard up. I like to meet people in organic settings. Hanging out with a group of people and meeting through mutual people."
