I have a co-worker with whom I'm work chums (we're not bosom buddies but we like each other at work- I'm sure you've had one).

He ended a long-term relationship last year (non live-in) and I was glad when he said he'd met someone who really "did it for him"- bright, vivacious, intellectual and, I just learned when I met her- 19 years old. (He's technically a professor but he's non-teaching, so she's not ever going to be in any of his classes, so that's not an issue.) Hmmm...

I'm curious to see what others think: if you had friends in this type of relationship, would you think "She's a BABY! My parents had an 18 year age difference (she was 16 and he was 34 when they married [and he was her high-school teacher]- this was rural Alabama in the early 1950s when that wasn't so scandalous) and the marriage lasted for 30 years. (It wasn't a happy union, it's just that its unhappiness got tenure.) How much of my parents' unhappiness was based in the age difference I don't know, but I can't shake the feeling that when a guy goes after a gal half-his-age, however else he may justify it the lust for firm young flesh is high on the list of REAL motivations (not to say that he can't be intellectually attracted as well). Maybe you would do well to adopt my motto: I don't care WHAT you do, as long as you don't do it to me. at a small Liberal Arts College in New England, I'll say this. On the other hand, this does seem a bit icky to me. Before I started dating men twenty years older than me, I dated men the same age as myself, and one much younger.

" or would you think "one can't control where the heart will lead"? My husband's second wife was 17 years younger than him. I'm honestly not sure what motivates a 19 year old girl to go after a guy twice her age (it's definitely not money with this kid as judging by her car and clothes she's from a very well-to-do family). Or what I tell my kids- you worry about YOURself, and let others worry about THEMselves. Wht he is doing is very taboo among the upper echelon of college profs. It is not advisable to date students at your institution, and though I have personal objections to the age difference, in this situation it is more of a professional indecency. I'm honestly not sure what motivates a 19 year old girl to go after a guy twice her age (it's definitely not money with this kid as judging by her car and clothes she's from a very well-to-do family). Makes me wonder if this girl knows what she is doing, but hey! ;) In conclusion, this is none of our business, so let's just give a little shudder and forget about it.

My God, if pontificating about the love lives of other people is the best we can do with our free time, then it's no damn wonder our country and the world is in the sorry state it is currently in. Like I said my husband is 15 years older than me but we have been married for 13 years now. As far as I'm concerned, as long as both parties are of legal age then it isn't anybody's business but theirs.

So theres this girl i like, and i know she likes me.

There was several years between my parents and they were married for 34 years before my dad passed away but things have changed so much in the past 20 years.

Wondering whether or not other people agree with you that it's wrong is utterly pointless, because the bottom line is that it isn't for you or anyone else to judge what they do in their own lives.

Un gran laberinto cuyas salidas se abren y rematan en el oceano.

Es un juego donde todo fue creado para generar una continua pulsión por el mar; para hacer que quienes lo habiten busquen y encuentren la salida, lleguen siempre a él con la mirada, lo atrapen.

I know its all fine and legal and all but it still doesnt quite seem right, just wondered what others thought.

I can see problems like for example she cant drink (legally) and i like to go out a lot with my friends so that could cause a problem amongst other things.