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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friends and I would give him a hard time too, because that's what you do when your friend dates someone much younger.

But we wouldn't give HER a hard time.  We'd be nice.  She might be a cool person.[/quote]

Appropriate! I'm with someone ten years older (met at 28/38) and 8 years later I don't think anyone thinks about it at all. I honestly don't think it is about the number of years, but where you are in your life station. In my own relationship, I had lived in 14 countries, left home at 16, moved up the career ladder, and was earning 6 figures at that point. I think it's the early 20s that make people sort of nervous. That tends to be a very transitory time for a lot of people and can set them up for failure and success longterm so there is some concern they have only just embarked on their own path. If you are a woman and this doesn't work well, it can be disastrous, so some of us women are weary about much older men swooping in to take care of it all, ie. "you don't need to finish med school!etc." for the very young. It has nothing to do with jealousy, and is sometimes based on personal experience and what we see around us. DCUM in some ways skews liberal, but the relationship forum man...I live in DC and I sometimes don't recognize these "truths" spouted here, particularly around relationships between men and women. (ie. women hate sex, they get fat, divorced men in their 50s are almost universally studs, "high drive" concept, "nags me contantly," etc.) [/quote]

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