Why did you start this thread? Do you have people you can openly talk with about your relationship in ways you are expressing yourself here? do you feel a need to talk about it?
Your story sounds familiar OP. I am now 25 and my boyfriend will be 42 this year. I moved in next door to him a few months after I turned 19 - I had dropped out of high school the previous year, but had I stayed I would have graduated a few months before I moved out of my parent’s house - and we were a couple within a few months. I also had very little dating experience before I met him, I was just too picky and holding out for a man I could respect.
Coming up on 6 years in, we have a wonderful relationship and I have much more in common with him on several levels than most people my age I know.
We’re very committed to each other at this point. It’s a marital-type relationship and I can see us being very happy together for decades. I took the first year or two very slowly and cautiously, however, and he didn’t start out with the expectation that it would be so serious either.
Although I am now an atheist, as someone from a conservative religious background the concept of only having one romantic relationship in my life isn’t exceptional or scary to me. The idea of marrying 6 months after meeting, like my parents did, is a different story.
I get the impression you are a little fatalistic about this, accepting it may or may not last.
How will you feel in about, oh, one year, when she develops a strong desire to be closer to some of the boys her age that she is at college with?
You know, like kids do.
Sorry, I changed it to Men at Work. 
“Cause it’s a mistakee… Its a MISTAKKKEEE!!!”…
Thanks Bien… i just got up and called my 11 yr old to check in on her… I’m not hating on you… but if that were my daughter I would express a serious opinion to you at the point of physical threat that you move along…
I know that one song they did…
WTF? When I was 19 I didn’t bother to inform my dad about most of the guys I dated or had one-night stands with. If he actually tried to interfere with one of my relationships I would have told him to back the fuck off and mind his own damn business.
If Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber asked you to swing with them for a weekend, would you? And if so, which one would you take?
It sounds to me like the OP has a bit of the “cool hip aspiring artist” syndrome going on here. Being in NYC, I see this every now and then with guys in their 30s-40s.
Basically, here’s the stereotype. Typically they are some sort of aspiring actor, writer, musician, DJ or comedian. They haven’t hit it big but maybe they are in an improv troop, a band with a steady fan base, have written a published book or have a reoccuring minor TV role. They typically don’t keep a girlfriend for more than 8-18 months and they typically date younger women since it’s “cool” and any woman over 25 is eventually going to start being like “when are we settling down?” which means you need to get a “real job”.
Really the only problem (as the OP hinted to) is that at this age, it sort of starts to be like now or never in terms of turning your craft into a sustainable form of income. It’s cool to be that hip aspiring artist living in the shitbox studio appartment or with 3 roomates and dating the girl a bit too young for you at 24. You can sort of get away with it at 35. It’s not so cool at 40.
Well, Justin Bieber is prettier, but Kim Kardashian got dat ass! Tough choice.
*came for the phrase ‘sneak-bragging’, leaving satisfied.
Kim Kardashian is almost 30 so I think she might be a little old for the OP. In the future, please keep that in mind
Any way you slice it, this isn’t a fair match. You’ve seen the world work from an adult perspective. She hasn’t. You’ve sown your wild oats. She hasn’t. You know who you are. She doesn’t know who she is.
Straight up, if this was my daughter, I’d have put a stop to this, probably by having a private conversation with you, after which you’d never come anywhere near her again. She’d be mad, but eventually she’d get over it, and realize that her old man was right.
She’s not my daughter, and frankly, it’s probably a good thing I don’t have children. Your words, taken at face value, would indicate that your intentions are as honorable as possible under the circumstances. You don’t intend to hurt this child. I think you’re gonna do it, inevitably, regardless of what you intend. I tend to be a cynic about…well…damn near everything.
I think the old rule of thumb about half your age + 7 years for minimum dating age has some wisdom. For me, that would be 29. Not really sure I’d be happy with a 29 year old. 35 seems a more comfortable minimum age for me. But that’s me.
I don’t approve. Don’t think I’m capable of approving, but you don’t need my approval. Just be glad her dad isn’t quite as old school as I am.
Whenever I see or hear of Kim Kardashian I think of Chris Rock’s comment when Larry King asked him his opinion of Sarah Palin:
“Watching [Sarah Palin] is like watching Kim Kardashian on Dancing With the Stars… all that ass and can’t shake it.”
Oak, you are entering what we in the business refer to as the “Dio Zone.” Don’t enter the Dio Zone.
Also, found her: http://drummerbritt.com/
How do you know that’s her?
Assuming that’s her, is it kosher to reveal her identity to everyone on the board? It doesn’t really sit right with me.
I don’t know, but I reported it for the mods so they can figure it out.
Not counting this girl, how many relationships have you had? When did the last one end and how long was it?
That crack team of investigators will probably surmise that I just googled up a young female drummer and posted a link for the larfs, which is exactly what occurred.
So should we report you for trolling now? 