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Originally posted by PennyCarter
I agree that there are no set rules. But I also think its about where the two people are in life. Someone who's 18 dating someone who's 23 can be weird because the 23 year old has experienced so much. You grow and change so much while you are in college. But at times love happens and no one can explain it or argue with it. My boyfiend is 5.5 years older than me. It has never been an issue for us, but we also started dating my senior year of college. We both agreed that it wouldn't have worked even a year earlier. He would have felt out of place at all my sorority events and my college stuff would have seem less significant to him. Not that he doesn't understand the importance of those things to me, but he had already experienced it and moved past college.
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My boyfriend is 4 1/2 years older than me. When we started dating I was 18 and he was 22. Then he had his birthday back in February, so now I'm 18 and he's 23 (hence the quoting this) and in 2 weeks I'll be 19 and he'll still be 23. We started dating when I was a freshman, but he wouldn't date me at first for a few months due to the fact that I
was a freshman and he just thought it weird to date a freshman. By the time we started dating though it definitly was no longer an issue.
But yeah, age can be a problem if you let it be. I personally have always been able to relate better to people older than me for some reason, and he didn't mind helping my mental maturity along in not letting me get away with immature things on the rare occasions I let them slip. We compliment one another because we've gotten to know each other so well and age really isn't an issue with us. It's only really an issue if we're in public since he can go up to a bar and get a drink and I have to sit sober for the night. We're used to that though, and this is not a problem. Personality really over rides a lot of age things in my mind... if you fit together mentally well with a person, age becomes only a number.