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Posted: 3/1/2006 11:40:44 AM | | This will not work for everybody, but it does for me, divide my age in half and add twelve, is as young as I'll go, older depends, not too much as I can still be pretty active. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2006 11:56:00 AM | I used to figure 5 years either way. Then I started making the odd exception for guys *just* out of that range. Then I dated someone 13 years older. Now I'm dating someone 8 years older.
Age is a number that has little to do with their maturity. It does, however, reflect on stage of their life and if I want to continue with the man I'm dating, I have to understand that I will likely never have kids with him. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2006 12:27:41 PM | I fell in love totally with this incredible woman about a year after my divorce.I was 47 at that time, and she was 29.
I realized that once she reached my age, I'd probably be in an urn. 
I did the noble thing, and stopped it before it could lead where it was going.
I think I know now how Bogart's character in Casablanca must have felt, as he watched that plane take off.  | |
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Posted: 3/1/2006 12:37:40 PM | | It matters not. As long as it is ok with the 2 lovebirds | |
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Posted: 3/1/2006 12:42:14 PM | the opinion of age difference is really between the people involved is it not?
not everyone 30 mentally is 30....
and not everyone 70 is 70.....
I would have to draw the line at someone being old enough to be a parent
or child.... as to me, that would be kinda creepy.... and i do not know how
much in common someone can have with so wide a gap...
although I know many are comfortable with it and that is great for them. We all
have to do whats right for us. | |
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jo_13
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Joined: 2/3/2006
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Posted: 3/1/2006 1:05:04 PM | | I've dated guys my own age and just found them so immature. Now i've been talking with someone who's actually 7 years older than me, and the age difference doesn't bother either of us because we're the same maturity wise. I don't know if i could go for someone much older than that, but the rule i heard for older is your age x 2 - ten years. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2006 1:12:19 PM | | I think it all depends on compatibility alot of women go for older men because they seem more mature i'm dating a guy 5yrs older than myself and things are great between us I guess it all depends on the person. | |
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Posted: 3/1/2006 11:47:14 PM | | I'm 24 and soooooooo attracted to this 44 year old. But I am way to shy to let him know because I am scared of rejection. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 12:00:37 AM | | I'm not stickler for any age range... but the further from my age (in either direction) the more careful I am. That being said you won't find me trolling through the 25 year olds.. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 12:05:16 AM | I asked my Mom about this when I was 17 and went out with a guy 32. She said, as long as he was young enough to be her son, it was ok.
She was 61 at the time. Uh huh.... | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 12:22:22 AM | | Going into the second half, here, nearing 50, I see most women in the same life stage as I am (raising teenagers) are ten years younger. I look ahead and see that I'll be 70 when she's 60 and worry that I'll get old and decrepid on her. So ten years is as much as I feel comfortable without worrying that I'll be traded in for a newer model or become a burden later. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 12:24:10 AM | | It doesn't matter what age. It is only a number. The heart knows no bounderies... If it feels good and right, do it. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 12:33:06 AM | 18 to 27 but age should not matter as long as
it does not get yall introuble with, the law.
i am 23 years old and wouldn't date
anybody, under 18 or over 27. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 1:04:45 AM | | Love shouldn't be limited. Age isn't & shouldn't be important. Love happens between people of the same sex & different races, why not different ages? | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 1:10:12 AM | | because there are LAWS and if you get caught with somebody over this way under the age of 17 and your over 18 you could be looking, at serious jail time esp if your a guy over 18 dateing somebody who is 17 or under. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 1:24:58 AM | As long as there is love there,what does age have to do with it.
I think there is no such thing as a age gap..It is only in the preference of you or the other person.
So many other factors are involved as, Bandito,put it.
If some were of us were brought up differently as take for, instance your mother or father ,are near to the age of eachother. A person then may think differently.
As for me age is nothing, and is not even a factor. "Exceptable legal age that is." | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 1:26:29 AM | yeah, I can't seriously think of a man of let's say 40 having a bond with a 17yo...
I guess a 10-year difference is still healthy.. but then the older you get the less relevant the age gap seems to be...
But I wouldn't be able to date much younger men... I love it when he knows about me more than I'd expect... and younger guys don't know the trick..  | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 1:33:36 AM | Im not stupid. Obviously a certain age is wrong. Come on.
VERY young is just wrong. But im talking like 16 & under. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 1:36:19 AM | age is just age none of us will EVER be with someone who's age, will cost us our freedom
and our rights people need to learn how to R.E.L.A.X. on these fourm's and have F.U.N.
people take everything/anything way to serious on the fourm's now day's i just do not understand anybody who will, take what people say on the internet so deeply/dearly to
their hearts. | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 1:37:23 AM | | Um.... I have never dated anyone my own age or younger but its not through choice.. just hasnt happen yet.. I dated someone ten years older and he was a complete ***hole!! So i believe it depends on the individuals.. mind you i wouldnt date someone who's in his fifties or sixties though!! going out someone same aged as my dad.. thanks but no thanks! Apart from Pierce Brosnan hahaha!!! | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 1:40:14 AM | coloradogal: you have a good measuring stick. Yes, If the guy is closer to my age then my two kids ages I stay away from him, Mr. CabanaBoy...
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Posted: 3/2/2006 5:21:45 AM | I have known many women from 18 - 50 and I can tell you that there are many older women that dont have the maturity that some 18 year olds have and vice versa.
I think the biggest problem is the generation gap, ya' know like likes and dislikes. I am 37 and I cant stand a lot of the new music, movies and entertainment of today. I hate it.And I know I am in the minority. I think a lot of younger people like things like that today. So...that would make a relationship with a much younger woman more difficult. Unless I just happened to find a young lady with my same interests. Now before any young ladies get offended for what I just said, I am talking from my OWN experiences. I am not catagorizing all of you.
So let me pose THIS question....
If I at 37 met a woman of 20, is that too much of a gap by just age (keeping our differences out of it). Is that too much of a "taboo" difference?? | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 5:26:43 AM | And you want to tell me you believe this 20yo to be mature or just mature enough for you?
Anything making you happy is possible, and I don't think you should worry about anything anyone else is going to say on the subject...
You have to answer yourself the question... | |
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Cynnie
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Joined: 12/24/2005
Msg: 49 | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 5:44:24 AM | I get along great with men of all ages....for friends i prefer younger men( yes i think men and women can be JUST friends)
But for romance..I prefer older..and age is no big deal for me. 1 year older or 20 ...whatever.
I will admit to having a "daddy" thang..( no abuse or bad childhood issues )
I've always had to be a grown up, and now i like the thought of being a silly little girl/child with my man taking care of me ...older men seem to like doing this | |
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Posted: 3/2/2006 8:53:23 AM | {because there are LAWS and if you get caught with somebody over this way under the age of 17 and your over 18 you could be looking, at serious jail time esp if your a guy over 18 dateing somebody who is 17 or under. }
If a guy is 18 and she is 17 then becaue of that 1 year the guy (or girl depending on who the older one is) can get jail time??????? What a joke!!! That is stupidity in my view.
What buggs me is that for adultary there is no offense in that or even a fine it seems, but in something as silly as this, you can get jail time, WTF? | |
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