I’d like I slice of Don’s Pie!!!

dowie said:
You're missing the point, it is the relative age differences/life experience/maturity etc.. not the fact it is 3 years... like I said a 3rd year or 4th year uni student dating a 1st year would generally be fine.
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There's very little difference in maturity between 16 and 19, if you ask me (which nobody did).

Heck my co-workers and I are all 40ish and we act like 12 year olds :p OK maybe not that bad. But your average 19 year old is hardly mature and conversely your average 16 year old isn't necessarily infantile/childish.

To say they are world's apart is not tallying with my experience of my old childhood. At 18 you gain the right to get legally ****faced but I don't think that makes you more mature either :p
 
FoxEye said:
There's very little difference in maturity between 16 and 19, if you ask me (which nobody did).
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I'd completely disagree with that - there is a massive difference between someone coming to the end of their 1st year of uni/at the start of their second year vs someone just doing their GCSEs.
 
d_brennen said:
Which alter ego is 79 and which is 69 :p
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I’m not sure what you mean, I’m 79 now, last year at the funeral I was 78, my wife was 59, my female cousin was 68.
The cousin reckoned that she hadn’t seen me since around 1968, when she was maybe 18, and I was 28/29.
Did I write it wrong in the post that you quoted?
I’m pretty much compos mentis for a coffin dodger, but I’ve been known to make mistakes :rolleyes:
 
dowie said:
I'd completely disagree with that - there is a massive difference between someone coming to the end of their 1st year of uni/at the start of their second year vs someone just doing their GCSEs.
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Academically maybe but in terms of emotional maturity?

Are you saying that in the 3 years between 16 and 19 you saw a marked change in yourself? There's for sure an increase in independence and self-reliance, from living on your own, naturally. Or can be.

And that's ignoring that a lot of people don't even go to uni, and continue living at home doing an apprenticeship or something. However I went to uni so I'll carry on with your assumption there.

In terms of emotional maturity, I'm not going to say I saw a massive change in either myself or my peers between the ages of 16 and 19. We were still kids and the real world still hadn't started. That comes when you enter the job's market. And even then a 21 year old isn't necessarily drastically more mature than a 19 year old.

None of this can be generalised like you are.

There are immature 19 year-olds and there are 16 year-olds who are much more mature than those :p
 
Yes I’m saying in general there is a bigger difference in maturity/life experience from say end of high school to end of first year uni than there is from say end of 1st year to 4th year.
 
dowie said:
Yes I’m saying in general there is a bigger difference in maturity/life experience from say end of high school to end of first year uni than there is from say end of 1st year to 4th year.
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Well I'd say we'd both struggle to quantify that.
 
Might just be me, but I feel like people don't really mature a lot until they move out of the family home and into the world with their independence where they have to properly look out for themselves.
 
I would chuckle if he manages to spend all of his fortune before he dies.

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dowie said:
You're missing the point, it is the relative age differences/life experience/maturity etc.. not the fact it is 3 years... like I said a 3rd year or 4th year uni student dating a 1st year would generally be fine.
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We've just had a brother-in-law who is a Professor and the same age as me (61), leaving his wife & four kids and going with a student who is 22 and older than his 3 daughters :(
He looks really old and a stereotypical Professor type and she is so immature.
I don't know the name of it but she has been sitting with his dying mother and when he put a Facebook update somebody posted using the words she and her.
She then posted she was a frog and ate bugs - apparently she doesn't use those terms like he, she, him & her.
Anyway, just backing up your statement about immaturity at a young age.
 
builder22 said:
A frog she her what what?!

E...Google thinks it’s some Gender Neutral thing
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VincentHanna said:
Fair comment :D

I can't think of a single 70 year old woman that I would find attractive. They are either wrinkly prunes or plastic.
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You assume the woman in this situation finds the man attractive!
I'd guess they find something else to be the attractive feature.
 
Jean-F said:
Christ, some of you guys would hang me, I was 41 when I met and started seeing the 22 y.o. woman who is now my wife, she’s 60 now, and I’m 79, we eventually married in 1994.
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Yes, yes! Good man - when I hit 41 I'll trade in for a 22yr old and follow in your incestuous footsteps...wait...what?!
Jean-F said:
I went to a funeral last year, and met up with a cousin that I hadn’t seen for years...
My wife looked at her, then looked at me, and said to me later, “I didn’t want to come to this, but I’m glad that I didn’t let you come on your own.”
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I repeat... wait...what?!
 
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