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What's wrong with age gaps?

I don't understand why its wrong to date someone a few years younger or older than you. It just doesn't make sense to me. 

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  • 9 months ago
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    As long as you’re both of legal consent then nothing else really matters. I’m a firm believer that if you have a connection with someone then that’s fine, regardless of age. 

  • 9 months ago

    It's not wrong.  It's only wrong if you date a child which is the fast-track to an appearance (for life) on the sex offender's register which will blight your life in any number of ways you can't even imagine.

  • 9 months ago

    My wife of 22 years is 5 years older, I was 23 and she 28 yet, if we had met when I was 13 it would have been inappropriate, so the situation is important too. A lot of young people post here, if this is you, please be careful.

  • 9 months ago

    It's not, unless the gap is mentally inappropriate. 

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  • 9 months ago

    Absolutely nothing "wrong", in my own experience. 

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