I never worry about age difference. Older, younger, it doesn’t matter. Either way, she’s not going to give two shits about me. My ability to be a loser doesn’t discriminate with age.
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My girlfriend is 14 days younger than me.
15 in a leap year.
My current sweetie is 24. I’m nearing sixty. When people ask, we just say we’re legal.
Yes, jaws drop. So what?
Weren’t you asexual or something?
And yeah that’s creepy. I’d like to see a picture of dude.
We’re both asexual, but we don’t go around announcing it. Let people think what they will.
Older men have been having relationships with much younger woman forever. It’s time to turn the tide. How is it creepy? There is less of an age difference than with Woody & Soon-Yi.
Well then that’s not really what most people would consider a romantic relationship at all.
A 60-year-old man and a woman in her 20s is just as creepy. I wouldn’t use Woody and Soon-yi as an example. Who thinks that’s not creepy?
What? A romantic relationship HAS to include sex??? People can’t be in love without having sex?
Well, romance usually includes some type of sexual attraction, yeah.
Not that I have a problem with it. It’s certainly not hurting anyone else, so do whatever you want. But when it comes to that type of relationship, I think that for most people, the age difference is going to be less weird than the rest of the dynamic.
I’m not as squicked by the age difference as by the fact he used to be involved with her mother, arguably putting him in a stepfather role to her.
Re: I retract my above statement.
Ambivalid, why?
I’m 32, and I’d date an 18 year old in a heartbeat, if I find one that ‘clicked’ with me. 18 is old enough to choose if you want to date a 32-year old, or for that matter a 52-year old. If you’re attracted to someone older or younger, and both of you are legal adults, you should have the courage to follow your heart and not care what other people say. Nonsensical rules about ‘half your age plus seven’ aren’t really going to tell you what works for you, and for your partner, or about what kinds of relationships are going to be happy and fruitful in the long run.
I do think it’s interesting that even as our society has gotten increasingly liberal about other sexual/relationship choices (contraception, gay sex, etc.) a lot of people especially on the more liberal side of the aisle, seem to have problems with relationships that feature big age gaps, or big gaps in education, social class, etc…
And yes, Annie Xmas it goes both ways. I’m personally attracted to younger women, but some women are attracted to younger men, some men are attracted to older women, etc., and I wouldn’t see anything wrong or ‘creepy’ with a woman in late 50s and a man in his 20s. Some people like a younger partner that they can ‘take care’ of, some people like an older partner to take care of them, and that’s as it should be.
Re: I can’t imagine a woman in her 30s wanting to date a teenager. So weird. How did you guys meet?
I can’t imagine being attracted to someone of the same sex, but people manage, somehow. I also can’t imagine why people get married with no intention of having children, or why people date across religious lines, but some people do. There are lots of relationship choices people make that I can’t relate to at all, but I don’t think people should be shamed for making them.