[sororitygirl2]

When does age not become an issue? What is the limit for how far apart a couple - typically - should be in age?

For instance, a 25-year-old and an 18-year-old is inappropriate to me. A 25-year-old has lived through so much more, and had so many more life-altering, formative experiences, than their younger counterpart. To try to date an 180-year-old is to rob them of that experience.

But, the same age difference - seven years - seems less significant to me in the case of a 25- and 32-year-old. They have both lived in the "real world" - one is getting their feet on the ground and one already should have done so and can help the other. And in the case of a 35- and 42-year-old, it seems fully insignificant that there is an age difference.

What do you all think? How much younger/older of a person have you dated? How did it work out? Why/why did it not work out? What are tricks to helping it along?