# Age differences.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-differences/9479>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 31, 2000, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-differences/9479 "2000-03-31T13:44:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![brittainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@brittainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brittainy)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-differences/9479/1 "2000-03-31T13:44:00Z")

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You have a man and a woman, but with a 30 year age difference. Do you think when they get older the age difference doesn’t mean as much? Can they ever be together with out society looking down on them? I am just looking for views not answers.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-differences/9479/2 "2000-03-31T13:58:00Z")

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I’m in my 30s (upper-range). I don’t seem to have anything in common with women my age. We don’t like the same music, we don’t have the same goals, our outlooks are different. I _do_ relate to women in the 25-28 range.

I don’t think it’s so much the chronological difference that matters in a relationship, but the psychological and emotional similarities.

But then, I never saw much point in growing up.

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**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-differences/9479/3 "2000-03-31T14:01:00Z")

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When one reaches 110, the other’ll be a sprightly 80. Big difference ;).

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**Author:** ![Cheese\_Head](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cheese\_Head](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheese_Head)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-differences/9479/4 "2000-03-31T14:03:00Z")

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“I am just looking for views not answers”.

Then this belongs in MPSIMS or Great Debates.  
Anyway, 30 years seems like a big difference. One is old enough to be the other’s parent.

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**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2000, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-differences/9479/5 "2000-03-31T15:26:00Z")

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> Originally posted by Cheese Head:  
> **Then this belongs in MPSIMS or Great Debates.**

MPSIMS.

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