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LELuMADuRUSTLED posted...

That's a really weird hangup. 21 and 19? Lol, sooooo different. Essentially a different species.

Ah yes. Specifically choose the lowest possible value for "20s/30s" and the highest possible value for "teenager" to pretend you didn't understand the point being made. A brilliant strategy.

LELuMADuRUSTLED posted...

Wonder if you feel the same about a 50 year old and a 30 year old being friends

That met as adults? Whatever. That met when the 30-year-old was a minor, found common interests, and that resulted in a friendship that continued into adulthood? I'd be a little leery of the 35-year-old wanting to hang out with a 15-year-old, especially if they met in a context where the kid's parents weren't involved at all (not that friends of parents can't abuse their children, but parental involvement at least helps to mitigate the risk) and/or whatever activities they did together didn't allow for third-party supervision, but with appropriate scrutiny that can be okay, especially where you've presented it as them being friends 15 years later with no reason to suspect anything more sinister happened.

Of course, that example has absolutely nothing to do with marrying said friend as soon as they graduated high school. Using an example where the potential harm obviously didn't occur to discredit an example where the potential harm could have occurred doesn't exactly work. Those simply aren't analogous.