Age differences in relationships: good or bad?

[stui magpie]

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he's got his eye on a mid 50's French Bolshevik.

[David]

[think positive]

I might turn

At least the toilet seat would be down

[roar]

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he's got his eye on a mid 50's French Bolshevik.

Who doesn't?!

[CarringbushCigar]

My simplistic life strategy is to live and let live. To each their own when making legal choices.

Doesn't sound simplistic Lazz, sounds like a well-formed intelligent strategy formed from vast experience.

I'd go further and question the law.

I don't think a 70-yo with a xx-yo is any more or less threatening for either party. Evil comes in all packages.

Men and women of any age can be taken advantage of in any relationship.

Throw a fixed-age law into the mix and you are guaranteeing trouble.
An 18yo age of consent as it is in many jurisdictions does seem ridiculous.

What matters (to me) is that the people in the relationship are happy not how an outsider might feel about it.

David - i think it says more about your friend than anything else.
If I saw anyone post that sort of stuff twice, I'd go as low and cutting as possible, knowing that that association was over.

Actually I'd be willing to wager if your friend saw a couple, of unconventional age difference, on the street, the happier they appeared would raise her level of disgust proportionately.

[David]