How to handle an age gap in your relationship

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For one there were very few women available, and fewer still who were attractive, and of those very few almost all — as their baseline disposition — were bitter and angry. Of course, my mother is livid about it. Not my ideal meet cute, but whatever — and it made me wonder: is the old norm of older man with younger woman out?

It is what it is. However, as everyone else has pointed out, this is only a rough and amusing guideline.

Celeb Age Gap Relationships

LOS ANGELES, July 7, 2013 - When dating, how big an age gap is too big? At what point does the age difference become scandalous? Throw out the obvious examples as outliers. The late Anthony Quinn was 81 when he impregnated a 19-year-old. The late Tony Randall was 75 when he married his 24-year-old wife. Playboy founder Hugh Heffner has several girlfriends, most of them half a century his junior. Age is what it is. For one thing, most people do not want their relationship to be the equivalent of gossip tabloid fodder among their own social circles. A date I recently went on showed the woman to be intelligent, sweet, accomplished, and attractive. We both suspected the age difference might be significant, but avoided the topic for as long as possible. Yet denying reality serves no purpose. She thought I was 30. I was hoping she was in her late twenties. Five years is one thing. Even ten years one can start rationalizing. Yet 18 years is a tough one to justify. Having said that, a guy at 41 squiring a woman of 23 is far more controversial than a 71-year-old man dating a 53-year-old woman. So again, where is the line? There is an unofficial rule that exists, even though nobody seems to know where it originated. This leads to some reasonable results. A 24-year-old should date somebody at least 19. A 40-year-old should stick with someone at least 27. For somebody aged 70, the bottom limit of respectability is 42. The problem with this is that unofficial guidelines are exactly that. So if 40 and 27 are acceptable, one could say that 41 and 26 are close enough. Yet soon after that, the slippery slope becomes 44 and 24, which can lead to Lolita situations and other felonies. Some may ask another question. If a man is 40, is dating a pair of 20-year-olds equivalent to dating one 40-year-old? From a respectability standpoint, no. From a brag and go high-five your friends standpoint, yes. If the man is a billionaire, it comes with the territory. In fact, the entire point of becoming a billionaire is for men to be unbound by the rules of everyday life that constrain the rest of us. When one is a septuagenarian billionaire, what else is there to do? Being a billionaire is not the real world, and even billionaires occasionally face consequences. Berlusconi has been accused of having sex with a woman under the legal age of consent. That is rape in any language and has nothing to do with dating. In the real world of dating, there are few actual rules. Yet societal norms still exist. Half by seven may only be a guideline, but it is a useful one.

Generation Gap Both of you may have grown up in a different era. The late Anthony Quinn was 81 when he impregnated a 19-year-old. When I was 24, I dated a 31-year old. The couple, who have a 16-year age difference, were spotted vacationing in England and Greece earlier in the year. I'd say there's no problem as long as both parties are clear on their intentions and feelings are genuine, much like any relationship. What I found was kind of surprising.