What's the acceptable age difference in a relationship?
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As long as she has a brain, a sense of humour and i found her attractive....then age dont matter. My last girlfriend was 8 years older than me and she was awesome. Age becomes less relevant to a partner as you get older.
Just like most people the half age +7 is pretty good for an avergae but if it goes a year or so under that won't make a difference unless it's like a 15-year-old dating a 12 year old... that'd just be weird for me, and also like 60 dating a 20-year-old, I don't care if you think love is the power of the universe in that case some common sense is to be used.
I'd say that it is about a year either side for most teens, then 18/19 year olds can extend upwards to the early 20s, once you're in the mid twenties, it doesn't matter too much, and become way more subjective. I am nearly 22, and was dating a 26 year old a few months back.
It's all relative and dependent on the individuals and the cultures they're in, but the reason it's a bigger deal at younger ages is because a few years when you're younger involves much more change and growth than when you're older. So you change much more from 16 to 18 or 18 to 20 than you do from 25 to 27. But again, it's dependent on individual cases.
What if you met the parents and they and everyone else you know don't care about teh age gap and both parties are happy? What then? D :
Age differences are more important when you're teens because a person changes a lot, and becomes much more mature(emotionally and mentally) over the course of just a year or two. However, it's really not a problem unless one of the partners is uncomfortable. If both partners are fine with it, it's not a problem in my mind. Culturally, I think our culture is uncomfortable with the idea of "underage" individuals dating at all, and that stigma carries over to even small age differences of a year or two, when one of them is under 18. That's my $0.02
That is exactly why I can't agree with those sites. What I read there are based on pure scare tactics.ObsidianJones said:
No, really. I believe anything that can be proven, and they featured no proof.
Nothing like University X found out that 15% of teenage pregnancies have complications, unlike the 5% found on adult women. Things like that.
I agree with this equation except for ages under 18. I believe a 13 year old should only be dating between 12 and 15 while a 14 year old should only be with at oldest a 15 or 16 year old. it depends on maturity level so a 15 year old i myself would think shouldn't date over 17 because between the ages 16-20 is a stage of great growth. a 13-15 year old has a much different maturity level than 16-20. I would consider a 20 year old or a 19 year old at youngest to date a 16 year old but only really if they are mature enough. Some people don't get a real growth spurt until age 17 but girls tend to mature younger so at age 16 a girl could be for the most part developed completely. 18-20 year old guys tend to have it the hardest because of maturity. A guy that age normally dates girls younger so younger than him is girls just reaches maturity. Sooo I would say 16 is the youngest a 20 year old should date. 13-15, 14-16, 15-17, 16-20, 17-22 and as you reach 18 that's really your own choice.