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 Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:32 pm
Often in Romance stories (and real life too) characters with huge age gaps fall in love with each other.
Some of my friends think it is a bit gross wen the girl gets with a guy twice her age, but I think that it can be awfully romantic.
What do you think?
And do you know of anyone in real life who is married to someone way older/younger then them?
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 6:43 pm
I personally like/prefer older men. Perhaps it's because my Dad is 17 years older than my Mom .. I don't know.
I dated a guy 15 years older than me when I was 21 and it was great because he was (mentally) at the place I was and we got along well. Most guys my age or younger just aren't "there" yet ..
=)
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Posted: Thu Jun 08, 2006 7:38 pm
I admit that it does squick me out. But it mostly depends on the story i'm reading. I have a personal rule that I would not consider dating anyone who was near or older the age of my own father. But I digress. Anything more than a ten year gap I find disturbing.
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Posted: Fri Jun 09, 2006 4:11 am
I think it depends... I have a friend of mine that started dating a guy that was 24 years older than her (3 cool when she only 14...
That is little bit too much for me...
But my cousin married a guy that was 11 years older that her and it was ok... I only think that she married really early (16years old)...
A great romance and that I love dearly is Breaking Point by Suzanne Brockmann. The male hero is twice the age of the female hero and is afraid to start a relationship because of it... That all changes when he thinks that she was killed by terrorists. Great story and one amazing series!
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Posted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:05 pm
I prefer older men that is older by no more than five to seven years because usually they possess that maturity or experience that I need yet could still be able to relate to each other. My father is thirteen years older than my mother and it seems to be working alright.
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Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:41 pm
An older friend of mine (i.e. she is also a friend of my mum's) is married to a guy who is ten years older then her, but if you didn't know there ages you would never guess. Why? Because he acts like a kid, he seems closer to his sons age then his own.
While she is quite mature for her age.
Funny how things work out.
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Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:30 am
Well, what can I say? I married a man 11 years older than me wink heart
I felt the same way taligator did, (and my dad is about 15 years older than my mom) guys our age were not ready to provide what I was looking for.
It somehow just seems to work out better and yes, it can be awfully romantic ^^
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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 9:49 pm
*feels really young* I wouldn't mind dating an older guy, a lot older. My step-sister almost married a man who was older then her father.
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 2:12 pm
The older the girl is, the less i have a problem with the age gap. but many of the novels i read are historical romance, so girls tend to be in the area of 17-20 when they meet and fall in love with men in their late twenties and thirties.
i haven't read much contemporary romance, because it's a genre that doesn't intrest me as much, but i would expect their to be fewer 20- women falling in love with 30 year old men.
Personally, at this age, i'm not interested in a guy much more than few years older than I, the maturity gap would be wider as i'm further from being an adult.
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Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:20 pm
Page Boy The older the girl is, the less i have a problem with the age gap. but many of the novels i read are historical romance, so girls tend to be in the area of 17-20 when they meet and fall in love with men in their late twenties and thirties. i haven't read much contemporary romance, because it's a genre that doesn't intrest me as much, but i would expect their to be fewer 20- women falling in love with 30 year old men. Personally, at this age, i'm not interested in a guy much more than few years older than I, the maturity gap would be wider as i'm further from being an adult. Yes in Jane Austen times if a girl wasn't married by the time she was twenty she seemed destined to a life of spinsterhood (or so it comes across) but for men they could put of marriage tell there thirtys quite easily. So in nearly all the Jane Austen books there is an age gap between the two main characters.
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Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:35 pm
A girl I knew in high school, her parents were ten years apart.
As long as it's not...more than say, ten or twelve years, I'm all for the hero/heroine being older. I go for older guys myself (I'm twenty-two and majorly lusting after a thirty-four year old), so I think it's hot. I've read a few books where there was a considerable age gap.
One of my favorite stories had a heroine who was thirty and a hero who was twenty-five (of course, she didn't know he was twenty-five at first, but she had issues with her age, so they never would have gotten together otherwise). It's not much of an age gap, but it was a historical, so the fact that she was older caused a bit of a stir. XD
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:36 am
Age shouldn't matter but there are some lines that you shouldn't cross
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 10:37 pm
Yes, lines you shouldn't cross. Except some people still do.
Like my seventeen year old friend who is living with a fourtysomething year old guy who has two kids aged like around ten.
Yes some lines shouldn't be crossed.
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Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:06 pm
Dewdew Yes, lines you shouldn't cross. Except some people still do. Like my seventeen year old friend who is living with a fourtysomething year old guy who has two kids aged like around ten. Yes some lines shouldn't be crossed. But for the purposes of books, how do you make the distinction of when it's ok or not. Take historicals for example, though I know for a fact that girls were married off rather early, I've never actually seen it in a book, at least so far. If an author is going for historical accuracy, which is necessary to a point. Would such a large age gap be ok then? If so, why?
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Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 8:39 pm
It depends on how young the youngest person in the realtionship is. I've been known to have a thing for older men (one who was twelve years my senior), so I don't have a problem with age gaps as long as both parties are not minors. Even if the book is a historical.
One of my friends in high school had parents who were ten years apart. My father's parents had a bit of an age gap. I can't remember exactly how big it was, but, yeah.
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