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TheGreatGeno6 posted...

Who cares about judgemental people? My girl is 8 years younger than me(27 and 19) and people outside of our friend group make comments all the time and it doesnt affect us. Because believe it or not, I did not hold her up at gunpoint forcing her to be with me, in fact she perused me. If that bothers people then that's their problem and not ours

I mean the biggest reason that people worry about those in different age groups dating is because people change and go through different "phases" in life. There's a definite imbalance of power in a relationship between a 27 year old and a 19 year old that doesn't exist between say, a 40 and 48 year old. She has literally been out of high school for one or two years, and doesn't have any real adult life experience. I know that I changed significantly between even just the age of say 19 and 24. Once you've weathered adult life a few years, you kind of get a better handle on exactly what you value in life, which direction you want to go moving forward, etc.
You're coming in with more experience, more money probably, more an idea of how life works, etc than she has which gives you much more power than her in the relationship. Sure, its legal for you to do that but I still it is kinda creepy.
As a 30 year old though, I also wouldn't take a 22 year old for more-or-less the same reason.

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