| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/18/2007 10:24:54 PM | I've heard many thoeries of how people choose the ages that are acceptable for them to date.
I like the "divide your age in half", and that is how many years older than yourself that you can date. then you divide that number in half again, and then divide THAT number in half to get how many years younger.
so, for me, that would give me an "acceptable" dating range of 23-39.
That would work with me, cuz I'd feel creepy dating anyone younger than my little sister, (who's 23).
Now I just have to find women in that age bracket who are desperate/crazy enough to date me!!!
what ideas do you personally have on the ages you're dating? | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/18/2007 10:29:00 PM | whoever manages to hold my interest and vice versa for long enough works for me although I have heard of the 1/2 your age plus 7 years and that number always seems more "socially acceptable" if you care one way or the other.
Short term dating who cares? long term you may think twice about someone with a great deal of years over you.
Under? Just make sure they are legal! | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/18/2007 10:39:19 PM | First of all OP, you've got GREAT eyes!!!...no matter how old you are!!!
Now, more seriously, I've dated 12 years younger than my age and I've dated older than my age. For me, for where I'm at I'll always prefer my own age or older. All I have to go on is my own experience so far which has been younger guys who don't have children. Until you have some, no matter how much you like kids, have worked with kids or whatever, you really don't get how important they are to a parent until you are one. I've had guys who become just another child for me to take care of and I've had guys with balls the size of watermelons try and tell me how I should be a parent!
It's not necessarily true that a younger guy is one that can keep up with me because I've had men older than me put ANY one of the younger ones to shame! Once the 'novelty' (I'm not sure that's the right word) of having someone so much younger wore off, the age difference was blatantly clear. We are just from different generations and we really do not, for the most part, consider the same things important.
Here's an incidental oddity for you to consider: My pictures are current (a couple of months old) and I've had men ask me If I've lied about my age!!!...I don't know many women who would lie UP their ages at my stage of the game!!...a compliment perhaps?...yup, that's how I'll take it!  | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/18/2007 10:49:33 PM | It seems i am not dating....... so it's a moot point  | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/18/2007 10:54:43 PM | It's about the connection with the girl,rather than a specific age.
We're only dancing on this earth for a short time,lets dance.
I'm not real hung up on the age thing,one day at a time,what ever will be,will be . | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/19/2007 12:35:57 AM | Well I am 41. I think I would have difficulty walking into dinner at a 27 year old's parents' home and feeling that they would accept me as being the best thing for their kid's life...in a more serious aspect.
On the other hand, I have turned down 60 year olds, knowing what age does bring (overall...and yes, everyone is different). The Attends years are not far off. This applies to dating the really younger ones too...I would feel guilty having them be in their 40's/50's and visiting me every day in the care home to spoon feed me.
I guess it all depends on what type of relationship you are looking for. Serious or not.
Some people fall in love no matter what age difference. All the power to them. As long as you know what you are getting into. Life is not entirely predictable, and random chance may have it that one of you is incapacitated no matter what the age. Odds do have it that those closer in age have a better chance of living together for more years together, and reaching age milestones at similar rates. | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/19/2007 1:35:13 AM | | Old people should not date. The minute things start to sag or droop, or wrinkle up (face, balls, etc) its time to call it quits. Except in the case you're rich and handsome. Like me. Then you should just date all the time. | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/19/2007 2:21:19 AM | HOLY F**K
No one can say anything to that there is so much truth... | |
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Posted: 10/19/2007 8:22:03 AM | | SOOOO glad I don't have daughters...(somewhere there's a mom who's embarassed as all get out) | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/19/2007 11:46:07 PM | hmm...@ this point in my life, (21), i'm only interested in dating guys who are my age or a few years older. (errr...24, max., i guess, since i'll be turning 22 in april.)
y'know, i've never really thought about it before. but it's pretty much always been this way/through my teen years. & no. dating a guy who's younger than me is NOT an option, just like dating someone who's smaller than me & shorter than me. =P i guess i'm just closed-minded/old-fashioned that way. | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/20/2007 12:08:58 AM | If you were old fashioned you would have been married at 12 years old to someone 30. Yep they did that way back when.
You are just young and unexperienced .
You wont actually be fully mature until you are around 30 years old. Then you will realize that trivial things like setting age limits of someone 2 years older than you as you only age option is crazy and an immature way of thinking. Get back to me in 10 or 12 years and let me know how you think then after yourve had some time to learn more . | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/20/2007 9:13:33 AM | i would not want to waste my time dating someone that I
1) have tell him to shut up and sit pretty
or
2) help him shop for depends
a healthy medium between the two would land him smack around my age although
none can surpass all my cynical criticisms
i believe i shall mellow out and be more forgiving when im an old cat...
...not!  | |
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Joined: 10/14/2006
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/20/2007 10:09:53 AM | age does not mean much to me.
I do tend to find older better. Less drama and more maturity come with age. | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 10/20/2007 11:02:33 AM | aw Pucks hon I like you more every time I read your posts! 
Younger works,... older too heheh, for me it is more about energy levels, general health, common ideas and goals and inspirations. Atleast it would be if I managed to date anyone! | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 11/30/2007 4:15:44 PM |
I like the "divide your age in half", and that is how many years older than yourself that you can date. then you divide that number in half again, and then divide THAT number in half to get how many years younger.
Good mathematics that I have to ask my son to figure out mine | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 11/30/2007 8:26:11 PM | here's the math:
at age 20: 18 - 30
at age 25: 22 - 38
at age 30: 26- 45
at age 35: 31- 53
at age 40: 35- 60
at age 45: 39- 68
at age 50: 44- 75
at age 55: 48- 83
at age 60: 53- 90
at age 65: 57- 98
at age 70: 61- 105
This scale doesn't appeal to me much
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 11/30/2007 10:57:27 PM |
YOu can change the 40 to
at age 40: 20 - 38
That doesn't suit me either. Dating a 20 year old? Not since I was 20 ish. Now that I'm in my 40's, 20somethings seem so... so much like my children and their friends! Euw.
You need to take math again you failed obviously.
huh? Jumpin' Jehosaphat sonny, I didn't make up the formula! I just did the math to show what happens to the op's formula as we age. | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 12/1/2007 12:31:06 AM | I like men closer to my own age ...that way I dont have to explain things to them..
but I do have fun with all ages all sexes
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Posted: 12/2/2007 12:00:35 PM | Well.. its an individual thing isn't it .. some people are "old" waaaaaaay before their time and some just seem to stay young at heart forever.
If I ever date anyone again.. ever .. sigh .. helllooooo . oops sorry forgot where I was.. IF I ever date again, I hope he is Free - in every sense of the word. The rest is unimportant. Well, of course I hope he's gotta nice a$$, mmmmm I like a man with a healthy donkey! lol
A.S.is
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 12/2/2007 12:09:52 PM |
at age 50: 44- 75
Okay, yes..............44 is fine.
However, my father is 79, so hardly a chance I would date anyone over 55.
^^BG^^ | |
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 12/2/2007 12:48:45 PM | ^^^ you mean you can't get people that mature????
the way I see it what ever is good for you (both)
a little disability, eyes , ears... never hurt anyone
but really, morals would place the boundaries around the age of a persons sexual maturity plus or minus 15 of ones own age
as we get older there seems a slide in the calculation table for men,
when younger they seem to look up a bit more and as they age they more progressively look down the age scale
and you gals still confuse the hell out of me so I won't even go there | |
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Joined: 4/21/2007
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 12/2/2007 5:09:15 PM | Wow if I go by the dividing thing---could have fun-----
I've always had a # thing in my head to how young I would date---maybe time to get rid of it-- & get with the program, after all its comin' up 2008, maybe time to get rid of some of these old fashioned morals I have about age difference
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| Age Limit for dating
Posted: 12/2/2007 5:22:21 PM | toss the theories and calculation tables in the garbage. all that counts is how you feel for each other | |
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Posted: 12/2/2007 6:46:20 PM | ^^^ and then there is change of feel
uhhh someone gettin too old
next
uhhh someone gettin too used to
next
ooops
shiat... someone just nexted me
not fair | |
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