Where’s the vomit smiley when you need it?
OP, your friends are just trying to tell you that young sex is better than old sex. And the best time to have young sex is while you’re young. When you’re 50, it’s very VERY unlikely you’ll be getting it on with 18 year olds. Don’t miss out on the chance to do it while you can.
I’m not vomiting or anything; you’re two consenting adults, and if you’re both having a good time, more power to you. At 45, I have a hard time imagining being with an 18 year old guy (mostly because I have a hard time believing an 18 year old guy would choose wrinkled, sagging, grey me over a young hottie), and I don’t really see a future for the both of you together, either, but have fun while it lasts. 
I’m 36 and can imagine what I’d want with an 18 year old aside from a quick fuck. Using the 1/2 your age plus 7 year rule, my minimum is 25. Even that doesn’t sound all that appealling.
It’s romantic, kind of a Maypole-December thing.
:golf clap:
…there’s forty of them…
You’re both adults, so congrats upon finding consensual happiness. However, you are not showing discretion. As an old saying goes, “A gentleman doesn’t kiss and tell.” You might want to avoid telling friends the details of your sexual encounters, as this disrespects the woman involved.
Nicely executed stealth brag thread, I am jealous.
Without paying a premium.
Okay, I read the title line and I thought “Why not? Older men date younger women all the time. Good for him if he’s dating an older women and they’re both happy.”
Then I read the post. 18 and 48? That’s a little … extreme.
But, hey, the OP is an adult (if only barely) so if he’s happy with a 48-year-old woman (or a 70-year-old man with a scat fetish) it’s not my concern.
Just don’t expect other people not to talk about it.
…Again, you’d really, really be surprised.
Har har.
A har har hee hee hoo. She works full-time at a print shop and is generally well-adjusted. I’m not sticking my dick in crazy this time – that’s part of why I’m not interested in so many of the girls “my own age”.
My words exactly.
Details they aren’t; I’m just being honest when they press for details about who I’m dating.
Indeed. I was genuinely pissed when it started… Now I just feel like I’m jerking off all over the pit. Which is kind of lame.
I mostly wanted to make sure Rick knows this was not missed and was appreciated, at least by me.
OP has made a point very much worth making–about the relative crazy of 18 y/o vs. 48 y/o. Just because a dude is 18, that doesn’t make 18 y/o girls any more together. Now, the newer models with low miles definitely have their merits. They can be driven more aggressively with minimal tearing of delicate membranes and they have a really nice unweathered finish in general; so they do have some curb appeal. But considering that some of the best sex goes on in the brain, he gets frustratingly close to the g-spot of the issue without actually hitting it: he’s getting regular booty without the flighty & confused “read my mind because I don’t even know what it wants” sort of crazy that typifies younger people (and yeah, usually wimmins under 25). Now, she might be a fully matured psycho whose motives and machinations far exceed his youthful competence, but if that’s the case the K-Y is already out of the tube so he might as well enjoy the silken braids as they enclose about his throat.
Kudos. Kimmy, I’m not always on board with you, but I’m glad you’re here. 
To give you credit where credit is due, BPC, I have always assumed you were much older than me, so it’s quite possible you’re very mature for your age. Dating OLDER makes a lot of sense at 18 for the very reasons you state (I have always been into older women myself so I empathize), as you get older and older it is pretty likely you will realize there has to be something very off about someone 48 who is “dating” an 18 year old if the relationship isn’t purely physical.
I’m 26 and the thought of dating an 18 year old is out of the question, because we will be at WAYYY too different stages of life. When I was 18 I sure would’ve gone for a 26 year old to learn the ropes and have fun, sure.
I encourage this relationship. When I was 18, I dated a 43 year old. It was mutually beneficial, I still regard her highly, and I was taught almost everything I needed to know about women, sex, and social situations.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
As a senior in high school, one of my best friends was dating a late-thirty-something. She came from money, was smart and generally very together. And – so was he. Very mature for 19. I’m still in touch with him, and he’s professional, intelligent, and married to a lovely woman his own age. I doubt he would give up a minute of his fancy lady if he had to do it all over again, and apparently they parted as friends when he went in the Army after graduation.
Are you bringing her to the prom?