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I did date a 25 year old when I was 18. He had done 4 years in the military and was a college junior and I was a freshman. We met at a party and dated for a few months. Obviously it was a pretty bad idea since we were at completely different places in terms of maturity and priorities in life. I found the one of the biggest problems was friends reactions to it, namely his. His roomate once addressed me as Mr. X's "little friend."
Later, when I was 23 I briefly dated a man in his early 30's. The thing with him was that he had a daughter and he referred to the mother of the child, his ex, as the biggest bitch on earth. He just had way to much baggage and mysogony towards women to deal with.
On the flipside, my aunt was very happily married to a man 15 years her senior for many years til he died of cancer recently. A large age gap can work if both people are fully functioning independent adults with enough of the same values to form a solid relationship.
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