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[quote=Anonymous]I was 21 and he was 32.  I thought he was wonderful and brilliant and he also thought he was wonderful and brilliant, so this was our common ground.  It was sick.  He would subtly put me down and I only saw years later how immature and manipulative this man was.  Eventually, I found out that he was cheating on me and he smugly informed me that he wanted his wife and children to be Jewish, so of course he had been on a Jewish dating site the whole time, and of course our relationship was "for fun" (these were things he had never told me).

I wasn't mature enough to see him for what he was back then, and he definitely knew this and took advantage of my starry-eyed naivete.  I felt as if I was a worse person for what being with him did to me.

It isn't illegal, but a 21 year old dating somebody 10 or more years older raises a lot of red flags for me now, simply because it is so obvious to the older person that the young person doesn't have the world experience to understand many adult situations.

I advised my own child not to date more than 5 years older.[/quote]

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