Relationships and Age Difference

[Miss Doronjo]

What on your thoughts on Relationships corresponding to Age? Like say, a 25 year old dates a 35 or so year old.

Should Age matter in a relationship?



...To be blunt, I say it doesn't, since well, people date for love.

 

[cyan.]

i don't mind ages like the ones you said in the thread.
but when it comes to a 10 year old dating a 30 year old, it gets kind of, awkward.

 

[Eliminator Jr.]

Apparently, the rule is half your age plus seven is the youngest you can go.

I don't know how that stacks up in the real world, but it really depends on the people. If they love each other then there's no real problem (unless like one's forty and the other is fifteen or something).

 

[PlatinumDude]

Age difference kind of matters to me because I find it strange for a young woman (27, for example) to marry a way older man (44 for example).

 

[cyan.]

but yeah, acutally i hear its really common now for women in their 20's to marry old men.

 

[Spinor]

The thing is, there is much more of a sort of threshold in the early teens than younger adults. For example, A 14 year old guy and a 9 year old. That's really trouble. As for a 30 year old man and a 25 year old woman isn't much of a bad situation. Both have a difference of five.

I'll make my parents another example. My dad is 53, my mom is 38. Nobody really notices the gap, but if this were going on 30 years ago somebody would've called the cops >__>

The problem here isn't age difference, it's the early teen threshold. Look at this list of the exact same differences and notice how the acceptability changes:

8-14
9-15
10-16
11-17
12-18
13-19
14-20
15-21
16-22
18-24
20-26
22-28
24-30

Magic, isn't it?

 

[Dubstep]

Eh, not really, as long as everyone's of age. Seems to me like, say, a 20-year-old dating a 40-year-old would be kind of awkward, seeing as how they'd likely be in radically different stages of life and being. Whatever people want, I guess.

 

[iCoffee~♥]

I think that the most important factor to understand is that although our bodies will show our age to a certain degree, age is most significant when it relates to maturity. Whether you find yourself to be the younger or the older person in a relationship, take into account whether your maturity levels match. You may find in life that a fifty year old and a thirty year old can be very similar in regard to their maturity level. This all depends on their life experiences, personal outlooks and goals. Most importantly, if you and your partner feel you are right for each other, age will not matter. :)

 

[Captain Fabio]

As long as it isn't a 24 year old dating a 14 year old then I don't condone it.
For me, the age that makes it 'ok' is 18. Since you can do most things in the UK at 18, if the guy or girl who is the younger age wants to date an older person when they are past 18, then they can go for it.​

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[Corvus of the Black Night]

I really have no problem with two lovers depending on their age, as long as the two lovers aren't below 20 (so no 19 year olds hanging out with 46 year olds...)

My parents have a wide age difference of 14 years (my mom was 25 and my dad 39 when I was born) so I don't really think it's all that weird.

 

[Aquacorde]

AK47 pretty much hit the nail on the head there. It's all about how many years you've got behind you.

 

[Archeos]

I don't understand why age should matter in a relationship, but that's just me. If it's too young then yeah, but other than that, I don't see an issue with age.