Hehe that's not too big of an age gap! ;P Happy for you two! :) <3

My beep is 6 years older than me. I am 18 and he is 24! I quite like our age difference. We started dating as soon as I turned 18 hahahaha. But, I am glad we did. :) People would make fun of me for it, but I do not see our age gap as any problem.

And I don't get why people would make fun of you? If you're happy and not hurting anybody... why should it matter?

OMG you do? Hahahaha. I called him beep as a joke and it kinda just stuck lol -highive- Yeah, I know what you mean. I am definitely over the rude comments ^_^

I don't think it's weird. When two people click, they click. I suppose everyone feels differently though. My parents are about 5 years apart - my dad is older than my mom. My best friend and her boyfriend are 4 years apart - she's older than he is. In my own relationships (of which there have been pathetically few for my age) I tend to look for someone who is no more than 3 or 4 years in either direction, but I wouldn't say no to getting to know someone a bit older or younger than that if I really felt a connection.

That's so true and I'll have to agree with you. When there's a spark and people connection it's just something special. For me it's 5 years either way. I def do not have that 'older man allure' since I grew up with my mom and my dad her senior by 12-13 years. He didn't treat her that nicely so I lost interest in that. Totally my opinion!

Haha yes! high fives I don't know where I came up with it? Funny tho cuz he calls me 'beebs'. I love random pet names lol!

We're so happy and this past week, he finally joined Subeta. He's getting the hang of it pretty well. He's not so good at the quests but he'll get the hang of them too. Two more months and we'd be married for three whole years!

Yes!

My husband keeps asking me what's there to do on Subeta. I talk about the pets mostly so I need to show him that there are forums that he can post on and games and such.

I just turned 22 in October and my boyfriend is 26 so there's about 4.5 years difference between me and him. I'm finishing up my last year of college and he works full time. I was a bit hesitant when we first met (we met online haha) but after giving him a shot and going on a date with him that feeling soon went away. It's a WORLD of difference. I see my friends dating guys our age and I'm like "ugh, how do you do that?? So immature". :p

That's awesome! How did your first date go, if you don't mind me asking? :) I don't mind dating younger nor older (my limit is 5 years either way) but the allure of older-older men for me is a no-go! Just my personal opinion!

I don't mind! It went amazingly well. :) We had been texting for about 2 weeks beforehand. We met at a very public coffee shop to make me feel better since he as the first person I had ever met irl from the internet haha. We stayed there talking nonstop for almost 4 hours. As soon as I got home I texted him and told him I wanted to see him again. He's a good man. :D

I don't think I could ever do 5 years younger but I could definitely do older (obviously haha). I've never understood the allure of older-older men either. I mean, I like older men in Hollywood like Johnny Depp and Denzel Washington but if ever given the chance to date them...probably not. Too weird for me personally!

Very smart both of you to agree to meet in a public place! Meeting someone on the internet can be scary. I'm so happy it turned out so well!

And I agree! I love me some Johnny Depp and Denzel, but to take, never. Good eye candy LOL!

I find it weird too, for the girl to be older than the guy mainly because I like older men, but never really been with anymore that was more then a couple years older than me. I use to talk to this one guy that was about 6 years older than me, but didn't go anywhere and my recent ex is 2 years younger than me.

Yeah - what can you do. Lol you can't help who you fall in love with!

true or help that you have a type (in my case)

Haha yep! Everyone has preferences and if it doesn't hurt anybody why should anyone care ^^

in my opinion (and experience), it's less a matter of how large an age difference is, and more a matter of the circumstances under which two people meet.

i have an ex-girlfriend whom i met irl when i was 12, and she was 21. we were casual acquaintances online for a few years and began dating when i was 15 and she was 23-nearly-24. with an 8.5 year age gap, and with myself being a teenager (and not even that, when we met), that was in no way healthy - in fact, it was actually illegal where we live up until i turned 16, and very morally dubious past then.

the same age gap between individuals who meet on equal ground - both being established adults, fellow classmates in university, coworkers on even footing, etc - would have been fine. but in my case, it was beyond damaging.

in contrast, my current boyfriend is 4.5 years older than me. we met at a convention, and happened to be going to the same university later that year. we got to be good friends, became roommates, then started dating when i was almost 19/just after he turned 23 (we've been together for over two years, now). we'd had classes together, we had the same friend group, similar interests, etc. he knows about my past relationship with an age gap and had expressed concerns about our own, but we've talked about it - and like i said above, we met on even ground. we were at similar life stages. there's no power imbalance due to age, and i'm completely comfortable with it, and with him.

so like i said, it's really about circumstance. as well, i personally get a little uncomfortable hearing about adults dating minors - even if there's only a few years between them, like 16 or 17 and 18 or 20 - because people do a LOT of growing in their teen years, until they're about 25 i believe. especially with the difference in social spheres between high school and the workforce, or college/university, not to mention people who have graduated the latter and are entering specific fields - there are literally whole worlds between them.

so no matter how "grown up" a younger person might seem, or how nice it is to date older people because people your age just aren't mature enough - it just sends sets off so many red flags that someone older would find themselves attracted to a person in a different life stage, when said life stage is to crucial to their growth. so i always suggest to younger people that they ask themselves why the older person can't find someone their own age/peer group to be involved with - and if the answer has something to do with "they said i'm smarter/more mature/etc ... even more than people they know" it's ALWAYS a manipulation tactic, even if the older person doesn't intend for it to be. grooming happens, even when neither party is aware of it. but the onus is on the older party to realize what they're doing and prevent it from happening.

anyway, this was super long-winded, but it's something i'm fairly adamant about and i figured it's all on topic, so. i thought i'd share.

I just turned 23 and my girlfriend is going to be 27 next week.

Im 26 and my baby is 31~