How old were you?
Aug 26th 2010, 12:27 pm
#76
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Re: How old were you?
I think that's going to be difficult for you to understand!
Aug 26th 2010, 12:35 pm
#77
If I have to explain...
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Re: How old were you?
Well anyway, to get back on track and answer the OP question. I am 23 years old and I was 24 when I first did it...I hope!
Aug 26th 2010, 12:44 pm
#78
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Re: How old were you?
There is quite a distinct difference between going out with someone and marrying them. It’s true there are fewer social implications now to age differences between couples.
For young men marriage isn’t important, they are happy to wait a while and play the market. So if young women want the stability of marriage they would of course tend to end up with older guys who also want that stability (and of course to settle down and make some sprogs). There are a lot of good reasons for young ladies to marry a gentleman a few years older and so they do
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For young men marriage isn’t important, they are happy to wait a while and play the market. So if young women want the stability of marriage they would of course tend to end up with older guys who also want that stability (and of course to settle down and make some sprogs). There are a lot of good reasons for young ladies to marry a gentleman a few years older and so they do
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Aug 26th 2010, 5:53 pm
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Aug 26th 2010, 6:40 pm
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Re: How old were you?
Yawn. Listen to the bored feminist.
You still can't obscure the fact that it's unusual for a large age gap to exist between the man and woman where the woman is the older of the two parties. You still can't obscure the fact that it's much more common for older men to have younger (by which I mean more than just a few years) wives than it is for older women to have younger husbands. It may and it does exist but it is hardly the norm and when such a scenario happens it invariably raises eyebrows and comments.
Look at the list of average age at first marriage in the wiki article below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_at_first_marriage
Not a single country has the woman as the older. So it's hardly 'common' as you'd like to portray it. One or two years older is not uncommon, but five or six years older is very uncommon.
Does it make a difference in general? No. I don't care, and despite raised eyebrows and comments most people also don't really care, nor was the topic whether there's something wrong with an older woman dating or marrying a younger man. But to pretend that it's a normal everyday occurrence for a 37 year old woman to date a 30 year old man is ridiculous.
You still can't obscure the fact that it's unusual for a large age gap to exist between the man and woman where the woman is the older of the two parties. You still can't obscure the fact that it's much more common for older men to have younger (by which I mean more than just a few years) wives than it is for older women to have younger husbands. It may and it does exist but it is hardly the norm and when such a scenario happens it invariably raises eyebrows and comments.
Look at the list of average age at first marriage in the wiki article below.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_at_first_marriage
Not a single country has the woman as the older. So it's hardly 'common' as you'd like to portray it. One or two years older is not uncommon, but five or six years older is very uncommon.
Does it make a difference in general? No. I don't care, and despite raised eyebrows and comments most people also don't really care, nor was the topic whether there's something wrong with an older woman dating or marrying a younger man. But to pretend that it's a normal everyday occurrence for a 37 year old woman to date a 30 year old man is ridiculous.
And when does the age gap become 'large' enough to be abnormal and uncommon - 7 years is small and normal, 8 medium and sub-normal and 9 large and abnormal?? Good grief!
Lets all strive to be the same and conform , things will be much better in every way then.
Aug 26th 2010, 7:17 pm
#81
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Re: How old were you?
Mr Kitty was 18 when I had my 11th birthday.
Aug 27th 2010, 7:29 am
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Re: How old were you?
To answer the original question, 6 and I've never been back to church...
Aug 27th 2010, 12:20 pm
#83
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Re: How old were you?
Immunity required lol, 14yrs she was 12
and its always better the second time round
and its always better the second time round
Aug 27th 2010, 12:21 pm
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Re: How old were you?
older women, better than giggly girls!
Sep 5th 2010, 11:29 am
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Re: How old were you?
WOW that was a while back !!! I was a late starter I was 19 but she was 46 and my friends mum 
Damn what an afternoon older women rock
Damn what an afternoon older women rock
