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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurel" data-source="post: 1945695" data-attributes="member: 17067">I have to say my mind wasn't working and when I first started to read this I thought is was about not the actual date age difference of people dating, but of mental age differences. To answer your question though, I'd have to say it goes by what stage of life you are at and how big the age difference.A fifty year old man with a sixty year old woman no big deal.  A fifty year old man with a eighteen year old girl will not be seen as so cool.An seventeen year old girl with a fourteen year old boy not so big, except by peers and the whole 'cool factor at that age.  An 18 year old boy with a 16 year old girl..... yeah.A man in his forties could marry someone in their thirties and it wouldn't seem strange. But then again on some change around sexes and it changes the story and how people will look at it.  So like I said it really all depends on what stage of life.  The younger people are it seems the less the age difference should be.  The younger someone is the more fragile their state of self, their state of seeing the world, their ability to be influenced, and their lack of control in their lives they seem to be believed to have. I'd like to think everyone say's it doesn't matter, but to a majority of people it does or I should say it can.  From what I have seen personally though it is not a standard of age difference matters.  But you asked about people's perceptions of age difference.</blockquote>

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