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Men Over Thirty. When it comes to dating, what's your age cut-off? (feddit.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by Oneeightnine@feddit.uk to c/askmenover30@lemm.ee

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So I've got a friend at work; just turned thirty. He's perhaps not the smartest tool in the shed, and whilst he does look thirty, I think if we were guessing his age by his level of maturity, we'd place him fairly squarely in the 18-22 age range.

Anyway, 30 has had this ongoing thing with this girl at work. She's 19. He sees nothing wrong with it, and whilst that may be true from a legal standpoint....most of us think it a bit ... untoward at best.

This post isn't about him though. It's about you. What's your age cut-off, both high and low for dating?

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[+] Olap@lemmy.world -24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It works fine in your twenties that formula. 30 dating 22, bit weird. 40 dating 27, umm somethings gone wrong here. A 50 year old dating a 32 year old? 60 dating 37? That's gold diggers and thai brides, don't do that

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Enh, a lot of it depends on how they met, who initiated and how, and so many other things.

Like, I’m 40, I’m not looking for 27 year olds, but if I met a 27 year old woman that I got on really well with and she expressed interest first, why wouldn’t I go on a date with her?

Now if I were a creepy weirdo hitting on every 27-year-old that I see because the “fit the formula”, then that’s not ok.

[–] xor@infosec.pub 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

(age/2)+7 is just the lower limit... anything below that is definitely weird, but above that it's potentially not...
btw, imagine those age gaps you just listed with a male as the younger one and the woman as the older one... not so automatically terrible that way, is it?