Two-year-old girl breaks down in tears when her dad tells her the teenage boy she likes can't be her 'boyfriend' because she's too young to date

• Kennedy Kirkland had just returned from watching a football game, where she developed a crush on her college-aged uncle's roommate on the team 
• When the Alabama resident tells her parents that the young man, Jared, is her boyfriend, her dad contradicts her
• The little girl cries when she is told that Jared is not her boyfriend and that she isn't allowed to date until she is 50 ,

When two-year-olds fall in love, they fall hard. Just ask one little girl, who dissolved into tears when her parents told her she was too young to have a boyfriend.

Kennedy Kirkland from Millry, Alabama, was pretty convinced that a young man named Jared was her one-and-only.

So when her dad, Caleb, 23, told her that she doesn't really have a boyfriend - and won't be allowed to until she's 50 - the little girl got quite upset.  

Little girl in love: Kennedy Kirkland, two, developed a crush on a young man named Jared, who plays on the UWA football team

Caught on camera: The next day, Kennedy told her dad, Caleb (right), that Jared was her boyfriend, and her mom, Chelsea (left), started filming

On September 5, the Kirkland family went to a University of West Alabama football game where Kennedy's uncle's roommate, a young man named Jared, was playing on the team.

Kennedy - who had worn a UWA Tigers cheerleader uniform to the game - immediately fell head-over-heels for the strapping athlete, informing her parents that he was her boyfriend the following day.

When her dad contradicted her - much to her frustration and disappointment - her mom, Chelsea, started filming.

In the clip, Chelsea, 23, baits Kennedy by asking who Jared is, to which she replies: 'My boyfriend.'

'You don't have a boyfriend,' her dad replies, off-camera. 

Biggest fan: Kennedy attended Jared's football game in the team's cheerleader uniform 

Her guy: She is quite convinced that she is dating the young man, who is her uncle's college roommate

Kennedy insists that Jared is, in fact, her 'boyfwend', adorably mispronouncing the 'R' as a 'W', and when her dad contradicts her again, she starts crying.

As a single tear settles on Kennedy's cheek, Chelsea asks her what's wrong. The tot explains that she doesn't like her daddy telling her she doesn't have a boyfriend, also switching the 'R' for a 'W' in Jared's name.

'You don't have a boyfriend,' her dad says again, to which she nods her head and answers: 'I do.' 

'You're not allowed to have a boyfriend 'til you're 50,' Caleb fires back. 

'I do,' she insists again, smacking him and starting to cry again as Chelsea is unable to hold back giggles. 

Cute couple: Kennedy tells her dad that Jared, which she pronounces 'Jah-wed', is her boyfriend

When you grow up: Caleb said Kennedy can't date until she is 50, which Kennedy did not appreciate

'I'm sure this is the first of many arguments over boyfriends but we didn't expect the first one to be at 2! [sic]' Chelsea wrote when she posted the video on Facebook.

'For now, to satisfy her, [Caleb] said 50 is OK,' she went on in an interview with ABC News. However, that information didn't quite seem to placate little Kennedy at all, as she continued to turn up the waterworks to change their minds: 'She loves arguing with her daddy and she fake-cries over stuff all the time to get more attention.'

She certainly got it - at least from the rest of the world. To date, the video has been viewed on Facebook nearly seven million times, and the number continues to rise. 

The 'boyfwend': Kennedy's crush had grown as she hung out with Jared (pictured) the day before the video was filmed

Thanks mom! Kennedy's parents plan to keep the video to show her when she goes on a real first date or gets married

'We literally live in a one-gas-station, one-red-light town. It's very small and I usually get 30 or 40 "likes" on a video,' Chelsea said. 'I have no idea how it got out as much as it did.'

While Kennedy's dramatics didn't manage to sway her parents on the no-dating rule - though perhaps they'll adjust the age requirement when she hits her teens - they do plan on holding onto the funny clip for a healthy dose of embarrassment when the toddler grows up.

'We'll definitely keep this for when she gets older, goes on her first date or gets married,' Chelsea added.