You might be interested by Jane Austen's third most popular novel, "Sense and Sensibility", which has been adapted into TV series and movies several times, and favorably depicts a 17-year-old girl's romance with a colonel in his forties.
Screw it, how'd you fou feel about a younger fellow with an older woman? Or a young woman thirsting over an older man?
I really think you're discounting the fact there are two individuals involved here. As someone still within a stone's throw of that turbid time of hormonally driven adolescence, I assure you, one does no kindness leaving some to be predated upon.
I mean, hell, I've seen the occasional "I prefer the smell of perfume to Liniment oil" couple, and it always raises an eyebrow or two, but if the relationship is healthy, nobody really has any room to judge.
>And I don't need a wall of text to support that opinion
Maybe not, but in a conversation, it is generally in the best interests of everyone involved to lay their cards and reasoning on the table to minimize potential misunderstandings. This is something I've noticed a lot of older folks have trouble with at times. Hell I even struggle with it, but I work hard regardless to bring my years with me to help out the youngers. Without those of us who've been there to help them know how the world got to where it is, how ever are they to learn how to do the same, and avoid making the same screwups we did?
