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User	abuzzbuzz92 | 2006-09-02 |
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Message	Age difference is pretty common; and I see nothing wrong with it. -Abbas

User	Jeniffer | 2006-09-02 |
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Message	I agree, age matters less with as you get older. At the age of ten, a five year differance is a big one. A fifteen year old will feel very separated age wise from a ten year old, and vice versa. But when they grow to be older, say one forty and the other forty five, it won’t matter hardly at all. Just a hypothetical example...

User	Chell | 2006-09-02 |
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Message	I hear ya ghosty! The boys my age are still boys. I’m the kind that felt closer to teachers and parents growing up.My first husband was my age and we lasted a hole 4 months (seven if you count the waiting time for the divorce to be finalized.) People were positive I’d lost my ever-lovin’ mind when I fell for Steve (Lost Sheep). My best friend really liked him, but brought up the whole, "Honey, he was in the 4th grade when you were BORN! He Graduated when You were in the 3th grade!" Of course, when I asked her if we worked well as a couple she admitted that she’d love to be my matron of honor. (And she got to be...after I talked Steve into marrying me.) I do think that too large a gap can be a hinderance though. I’d be nervouse if I was married to a man more than 10 years my senior. Men, on average, die 7 years earlier than women so add another 15 or 20 years to that seven and you have a long time- statistically- without your love. (The idea of 17 years without my honey scares the begeezers out of me...Please God, let me go first...) I don’t think I’d have been mature enough at 19 to fall for someone who was 29, but when I met Steve 4 years later I knew he was the one I was suppposed to be with for the rest of my life, and God willing, for all eternity. I think it depends on the individuals. I know a lot of mature 20 year olds and a lot of immature 30 year olds.

User	ghostknight | 2006-09-02 |
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Message	i need the mental stimulation and motivation of an older other half. arrogant as it may sound, i feel like i am surrounded by idiot peers.

User	GiveMeTheGun | 2006-09-02 |
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Message	There was once something on the news about a british 13 year old girl running off with the love of her life who turned out to be 30+ or so. Which I have to admit is a bit crazy. Lost Sheep, there you go. When I get married I want my husband to be at least ten years older, too. I’m too young right now so when I mention things like that people think I’m weird and gross and abused. In that order. :)

User	Lost Sheep | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	I think the older people get, the less difference age makes. I’m almost 10 years older than my wife and it’s not a bug deal at 41 and 32. At 31 and 22, it might have been a bit problematic and of course at 21 and 12, it would be just wrong. At 81 and 72, if we get there, people won’t even realize there’s a difference. We’ll both be just "old".

User	joeyalphabet | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	Under 18 is statutory rape. Even an 18 or 19 year old isn’t mature enough, in my opinion, to be with someone 10 or 15 years older.

User	od9.1.04 | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	Age*

User	od9.1.04 | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	Ago shouldn’t matter if there is an attraction between two people. It is kind of wierd though when two people love each other and one is under 18 and the other is under. But besides that... age shouldn’t matter, if there’s love... nothing matters.

User	Jeniffer | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	My mom and dad are over twenty years apart; my dad is in his mid sixties. I’d say that age doesn’t matter as much as maturity and character matters. I mean, obviously a twelve year old shouldn’t get married, I don’t think a thirteen year old should even date, so age does matter, but a somewhat older women marrying or dating a younger man is not all that big a deal. I’m sure you will have to agree that children are being made to grow up way too fast by the media and society, not to mention peers. Little children in our neighborhood are bragging about dating each other, breaking up, getting back together, flirting....it’s silly, but a little alarming. A little seven year old using the word, "Hot"? Did you know that I’m now sixteen and I’ve never been on a date? And I couldn’t care less about dating right now, and probably won’t for a long while. I guess my taste is a bit too mature for my age; stupid basketball playing boys with no shirts don’t appeal to me; I get crushes on older, off beat actors and quiet, responsible boys who bag groceries at the store. Always on the unavailable ones...

User	Blue Monk | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	Both over 18? No problemo.

User	ghostknight | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	i’m 22 with someone who’s 32, but the meaning lies in the fact that i’m aware of who i am and what i want. age matters only in the amount of experience we have under our belt when feeling that we are ’serious’ or ’in love for sure’. i’m not saying that 18 year olds don’t know what love is, i’m only saying that an older person would know just what to say and do to fool someone that inexperienced.

User	DaGrimReaperess | 2006-09-01 |
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Message	yooooo age dont matter.

User	| 2006-09-01 |
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Message	I found this on page 39. Yeah. Shut up. I was about to start a post like this, but then abracadabra I randomly click a page and here it is to serve me. I can like guys who are 20 years older. Everyone thinks I’m sick.

User	Silenced Hope | 2005-08-29 |
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Message	On this subject, I have two views. One, if one of them is like 14, and the other is 25, I think its wrong, the only reason why older people want younger kids, is because they are young, oblivious, head stubborn to good advice, and their self esteem is not that great. But, if each side is at an adult age, and know exactly whats going on, then I really don’t care about what they do together. But still, isn’t it wrong that someone whos like 30 wants to go out with someone half their age, why else would an adult try to get a kid, because they are susceptible and vulnerable?

User	MyX | 2005-08-05 |
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Message	I just read in the paper that a sixteen year old child killed herself because her father spoke to her for the first time. What he said? "Back off bitch, stop stalking me!" MyX

User	fiery_eyes | 2005-08-02 |
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Message	to me it depends what age you are to decide whether age is important or not. If youre eighteen and youre dating a twenty-eight year old, then yeah thats just a little like robbing the cradle. But if your thirty and dating a forty two year old, then no because both people are mature and no the responsiblity and commitment it takes to keep a relationship lasting. another thought, i dont think anybody under eighteen should be in a serious relationship because thats the growth period-becoming an adult. Just a thought. Sure there are those few mature individuals, but ninety-five percent of young teenagers think love is screwing in the middle of night when their parents aren’t home. Anyways, just a thught.

User	Solomon Disease | 2005-08-01 |
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Message	i don’t know. i just go out people i click with. it’s like an invisible pull thing. i get that with very few people. and when it is pretty strong with a girl i go for it. yeah, it sounds weird -- but i am weird. i just think kids under 18 don’t realize how much they can learn in just a year or two. i look back on when i was 16 and i don’t see how that person ever became the person i am now. and that always shocks me. i’m closer though to the person i was when i was 18. and definately even more so with the person i was when i was 21 . . . of course i’m 22 now, hehe. but yeah. i don’t think the 16 year old person would every think that at twenty two he would be me. wow, that is kinda confusing.

User	marysunshine | 2005-08-01 |
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Message	Good. I’m glad. sixteen is so hard...all I wanted to be at sixteen was 21...and I only wanted guys who were older and dangerous...(the guys who could get my friends and me into clubs...buy us beer...get us weed...and had no problem screwing a child) I wish I’d kept my innocence longer. I now wish that one of these guys would have said.."you’re jailbate! Go home to your mom!". But they didn’t. Guess it was about 1992-93...the whole waif grunge thing was in, and a barely developed child was the epitome of "good looking" at the time I guess. I don’t know, I’m jaded on age difference. My last relationship was with a man who was 15 years older than me...and we were really at different places in our lives. Some people can overcome age difference. I don’t think I can. My boyfriend and I are five years apart...and that’s about right for us.

User	Solomon Disease | 2005-07-30 |
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Message	i did what u told me mary. it pretty much worked for now. thanks. it was some good advice. peace.