And now for the first time ever I’m dating younger women. Went on a casual non-serious date with a 20 year old (I’m 27 1/2 now) and soon the same with an 18 year old.

I didn’t choose any of them because they were older. I’ve don’t go out picking up women at all. Women usually talk to me first and I respond to honesty. It just happened to work out that until now only older women hit on me, and now only younger women hit on me.

If your calculator was accurate, my first wouldn’t have been able to date anyone who wasn’t 13 (she was 12). My second would have had me just within your criteria. The third would have had me 7 years too young. The 4th would have had me within your criteria. The date I had last month would have fit your criteria, but the one I am about on would call me a creep.

All in all, I think such rules don’t apply to real life. And they are very culture specific. They do, however, make a degree of sense, but only in regards to relating to events. I never understood until now what it is like to make reference to something “before your time” but that has more to do with age difference than some arbitrary calculation. I doubt, would example, I’d ever go for a 24 year age difference again in either direction because there wasn’t allot to relate to, even if your calculator would say it is ok. But that wouldn’t because the other is a creep, it’s just a preference for being able to relate to people.

Even so, I don’t consider age much of a factor beyond such extremes and I particularly hate it when people judge an older partner I am with, or otherwise call me a “baby” for making an adult choice. People in general can be very rude to both people with an age difference relationship and I wish people could just be more respectful of the choices of others.

However, my mom…can’t date guys under 31. Ah well, poor her.