Depends on how old you are, but in general, yes.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Half + 7 rule.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

After high school, age doesn't really matter. Let's say you are 30 years old, and are married to a 25 year old. In elementary school, you would be in 5th grade, and your husband/wife would be in kindergarten. And, if you started dating senior year, they would be in 8th grade. That sounds pedophileish. XD But, after highschool, it doesn't matter. So, U R RITE!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Its stupid that its okay for adults to do that when they are older, A 17 year old should be able to be with a 15 year old or even and 18 with a 15 year old. You are so rite!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Umm that wasn't her point at all. Ahe said after 20 it's ok. It's ok for adults and not children, because they're children!! At 15 you're not mentally ready to be with an adult, and what adult in their right mind would want to date a child?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

umm a 17 year old is NOT an adult and a 15 year old is perfectly capable of dating them!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

An 18 year old is an adult, and a 15 year old is a child, which was one of your examples. When you're an adult, 2 years isn't that much time because your brain is fully developed at 25. Anything younger than that, the age gap has a much bigger meaning due to maturity levels. So you can vote me down all you want, but it doesn't change that fact. Is it like that for every realtionship? No - there are scenarios where it works. But it usually doesn't.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I didn't give any examples except a 15 and 17 year old? & no most people who date AND last are 2 year distance or more. Girls a generally more mature than boys there for a girl whom is 15 would be about as mature as a guy who was 17 even possibly 18. Now if we were talking like 5 year differences in high school I would understand but 2 is perfectly fine.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was replying to Beegirl with the 15 and 18. I didn't realize when you commented back to shoot down my argument you weren't her. And it depends on what you're going to be doing in the relationship. The law doesn't factor maturity into it, just age. So you do need to be careful and know what the laws are or else you can both end up on a sex offenders list. Am I saying it's always right for that to happen? Not at all. But there are some relationships where the girl isn't mature at 15 to date a 17 or 18 year old (just because some girls are mature, does not mean they all are) and the laws were put in affect to protect girls from being taken advantge of. So no, it's not always prefectly acceptable or perfectly fine. There are some cases where it works, and some where it doesn't. But you need to be smart about it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

As I said to someone else the op only mentioned dating no sexual relations. Also there are always going to be exceptions you can't use that as your argument. Most girls are more mature than guys.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually it is a fact that girls mature faster then boys, and a fiftteen year old is NOT a child.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's funny how a guy dating younger is generally acceptable but a girl dating younger is a little weird.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My sister dated a guy who was 15 when she was 17 and people thought it was sooooo weird, but no one probably would have cared if he was older

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah exactly. It sucks because I'm in a younger year in university so I meet all these cool guys but they're all younger than me, so it would be weird if we became more than friends.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

my friend is the same way because she was held back so she's older than all the guys in her grade

by Anonymous 13 years ago

As long as you are 20 or older. Or what your definition of "dating" is

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah because psychologically, girls are mentally 2-3 years older than their actual age! :)

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not if she's underage & you're NOT.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

So you're saying a 16 year old can't date a 18 year old?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Depending on what the law is. If you're going to have sex with her and the age of consent in her state is 17 or 18, they no, legally you can't.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

This is true but op was only talking about dating not sexual relations.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well they didn't specify what dating meant for them. Some consider dating to be just hanging out, making out etc, and some consider a sexual relationship to be part of it. That's why I said IF you're going to have sex, not you can't date because of age of consent laws.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But you did not mention sex before that and you still said they couldn't date.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

legally, you can, there is a two year waver

by Anonymous 13 years ago

u guys all took this wayyyyyy to seriously

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Honestly if you love someone, you love someone. Just because you're "over 20" doesn't mean you aren't capable of loving someone that might be older by two years. I think it's bullshit people put an age on love.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If you're at the same maturity level then it's okay no matter what your age is in my opinion

by Anonymous 13 years ago