Ten Year Olds, Dude

[joeymichaels]

“I’ll be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it?”Some of you might remember my formula for calculating appropriate ages a person can date without meeting societal disapproval. Basically, take your own age,divided it in half and add 7. For example, I'm 48 so the youngest person I can date without ooging people out is 31. I think that's

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[xo_kizzy_xo]

One of my coworkers (early 40s) dated a woman in her early 20s. They met at work when she was still in high school. He didn't ask her out until after she graduated.

They had issues. He'd bitch about her behavior much of the time. We always told him that the age gap between them was too great, she's 20 years old, SHE'S A KID, of course she's going to act like that! Gradually we learned that my coworker's *issues* had a lot to do with why he'd choose to date someone that young.

They broke up back during the summer. Last we heard she's dating a guy much closer to her age and my coworker's attempting to play the field with women closer to his age. He's dated one a few times. We'll see if it sticks.

ETA: I've always been the older party in all my relationships. SO is 5 years younger than me. The only man I dated who was older than me (by 2 years) was my ex-fiance. I could've never, ever dated a man *that* much older than me. Conversely I could've never dated a man *that* much younger than me, especially since I'd now probably be their mother's age :shudder:

[joeymichaels]

Obviously, every couple is different and some will work and some won't work based on a thousand different factors, but wow does a generation gap make a relationship more of a struggle.