<p>One year is fine, two seems a bit weird to me, but maybe I just haven't seen enough relationships like that.</p>
<p>As a girl, I don't see why any girl would willingly date a younger guy. It's hard enough finding a guy who's mature in my grade, and the younger they are, the less mature they tend to be...</p>
<p>Ugh... this thread isn't telling me what I wanted to hear! Haha</p>
<p>To lostinthemusic, that's not true! I suppose a lot of times it might be, but not always. The sad thing is people are always so quick to judge...</p>
<p>And plumdum229, how do you prevent yourself from dating younger guys? I mean, once you start liking someone (which to me is something I can't really control) isn't it already too late to "go against your will"?</p>
<p>But hmm... I thought about it a bit more and I think that it's even ok for a guy to date 2-3 years up, like that guy up there. I'm switching my range to 3 years down and three years up. Both sexes xp</p>
<p>haha thissideup</p>
<p>if anything comes of this, you'll be among the first to know.</p>
<p>The rule I've always been taught (for lower limit for dating) is "half your age plus 7" I've only heard this apply to guys, but it can work for girls too...</p>
<p>So, for example...</p>
<p>You're a 16-year-old high school sophomore.</p>
<p>16/2 = 8</p>
<p>8+7 = 15</p>
<p>So if you're 16, the youngest "appropriate" age is 15</p>
<p>But for a 22-year old...</p>
<p>22/2 = 11</p>
<p>11 + 7 = 18</p>
<p>So 22 and 18 is ok :-)</p>
<p>I actually like this method a lot...it accounts for the fact that as both people get older, the importance of the age difference shrinks...in other words, there's a world of difference between an 18-year-old and a 14-year-old, but not nearly as much between a 22-year-old and an 18-year old.</p>
<p>Agreed.
Still...
I think that method is not really useful for those under 14, though many would argue that such an age is too early to be dating anyway.
The resulting minimum acceptable age for a fourteen year-old would be 14. People with lower ages would find their calculated accepted age higher than their own age.
Math has invaded my brain.
:)
Also, we must take into account levels of maturity. There are very mature underclassmen just as there are very immature college students.</p>
<p>But guys reach puberty later and also become mature emotionally later. So the "real age" of a guy who is 16 and a girl who is 16 is different... whereas it's about the same if the guy is 18 and the girl is 16.</p>
<p>Also another valid point and one readily observable. :D</p>
<p>Haha that dating formula was on xkcd:
<a href="http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dating_pools.png%5B/url%5D">http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dating_pools.png</a></p>
<p>i think it depends on grade. Like if your a freshman, then going out with a junior is kind of stretching it and a senior kind of weird, but if your a sophomore than going out with a senior isnt bad at all</p>
<p>Someone answer my question in post #17 :D</p>
<p>Probably the same age range as for dating.</p>
<p>i like the age/2 + 7 rule, but it also gets weird as you get older. 40 year old woman with a 27 year old man? 80 yr old with 47 year old?
Hopefully I won't be dating at those ages anyways :)</p>
<p>Well actually there is a surprisingly high amount of sexually active people over the age of 60.</p>
<p>+/- 2 years is ok imo.</p>
<p>sarahhs, well take ashton/demi theres was like 20--40! haha </p>
<p>anyway, within high school, I thinkt hat datinng with more than 1-2 years diff is wierd, because everyone is going through puberty and that makes people very different at the age of 15 than 17 or whatever
that's also why its usually wierd for older girls to date younger guys in high school: at this age, guys of the same age are usually less mature than girls, already, so unless a younger guy is very mature for his age, it would be wierd for him to be dating an older girl.</p>
<p>outside of highschool the age/2+7 rule works fine, i think</p>
<p>I think girls dating guys a year younger is okay, any more than that is weird.
And I think guys dating younger girls is also fine, but I think more than two years is slightly creepy...I mean a freshman and a senior, you know?</p>
<p>"Well actually there is a surprisingly high amount of sexually active people over the age of 60"</p>
<p>yeah... but how many of them are dating, not married? (maybe a lot if people are widowed? idk.) anyways, the majority probably date somewhat within their age range.</p>
<p>Hi ilovesoftball, How can you see someone every other week if he is a student at Penn? Doesn't he have to study all the time? Do you go there or does he come to see you? Just curious as to how that could really work. Are you going to Penn next year?</p>
<p>I'm a girl and for dating in high school I sort of go by the guidelines 1)To this day I still haven't been attracted to a guy who's more than a year younger than me. 2)If he's too old to have gone to school with me at some point then he's just too old.</p>
<p>In the end though, we know it's all about maturity. =] If the person is at the same maturity level as you does it matter if they're a few years younger or older?</p>
<p>If it's high school, then dating someone more than a year older or younger, in my opinion, is pretty weird. First of all, you'd have nothing in common when it comes to classes. (Man, that calc test was impossible. .... Oh right. Geometry.) Then, your friends and the person your dating wouldn't even know of each other's existence. </p>
<p>In a high school setting, these relationships aren't destined to last. Too many problems.</p>