Your so right Miss Lilith, maybe they are not happy with them selves.

Actually I don't think any younger than 28 is mature enough for myself. So honestly I think that's a bout the limit. Based on women I know anyway.

I would like to know what age you are referring to. I suppose in some cases of very young women around 18 that may be true. However, I think you are wrong on one key thing. Experience doesn't necessarily just come with time and age. I know plenty of "older" people in their 30s and 40s who have never traveled out of their home town, who don't make the effort to go out and date, who sit at home alone watching TV and typing on forums all day. Many people like that have little or no experience with what it means to live in the real world.

On the other hand, I know many people in their 20s who have experienced hard times and had to grow up fast, who have gone out on their own and made a place in the world, who have been hurt and learned from it, and who continue to put themselves out there instead of withdrawing away from the world like so many "older" people I know. I had already traveled to 13 countries in Europe (which I paid for by myself from working since age 15) and bought my own house by the time I was 19. That's more than many "older" people have done. I believe I am more an exception than a rule, but like another person who posted here, I know many other people my age who are very mature. Maybe some kids take handouts from their parents, but many more choose to strike out on their own, and still more have parents with nothing to hand out.

That being said, I can see both sides. Sometimes there are cases where younger women who are still in their teens get taken advantage of. This can be by older men or by men their age. The women who can't make their own decisions tend to get hurt and used no matter who they "hook up" with. In my opinion and experience (doubt it if you will), when two mature adults enter into a relationship it doesn't matter how much of an age difference there is. The problems only arise when one or both of them don't have a firm understading of what the relationship is r what to expect. Problems can happen in any relationship, and people can get hurt. That's the nature of them. Age difference is just one of the many compatibility factors that go into a relationship. It might not work for everyone, but sometimes it does and it's beautiful.

When its time for Intermission...Ill get the popcorn and soda for everyone...

Sorry, the show is almost over.

You see in a way this is like trying to convince a racist that color doesn't matter. They'll continue to say it does. A racist doesn't look at the person they look to some outside characteristic. The same thing is going on here. How do you argue with a racist? At what point do you throw up your hands and walk away from therm?

Take a couple aged 45 and 20. The age difference is 25 years. That will never change. Some will always condemn the couple.
What if they were a gay couple? More condemnation.
What if the woman was the older person? Even more condemnation.

I know there's no way to change subjective opinions. I don't like the espousal of their prejudicial ideas to others. Nothing more be said unless they want to keep acting narcissistic and over-opinionated.

To each their own means leaving the rest of us alone. We are all different. Revel in that fact as without it life would become far too boring and predictable. Live life according to your own ideals but allow others to be different and make their own decisions. We each have one life to live, you live yours and I'll live mine.

- Lillith

- Lillith

I totally agree.

Subjective - Based on (or related to) attitudes, beliefs, or opinions, instead of on verifiable evidence or phenomenon. Contrasts with objective.

Objective - Undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena.