Many young people are very hung up on the age they reached at their last birthday, but I'd suggest that a more realistic way of thinking about the relative ages of you and the girl is in terms of the percentage difference in your ages.
When you had your four-year-old birthday party, she was only one, and so you were four times her age. On your tenth birthday, you were 30% older than her. After you have your birthday next month, you'll officially be approximately 16% older than her.
Children and adolescents often have a fixation on the age they and others reached at their last birthday, but part of growing up is recognising that many other factors are much more important. There's always going to be a difference in how much life you and she have experienced. Maybe that's important, and maybe it isn't, but what's definitely true is that the degree of difference is decreasing a little with every passing day.
Is it normal for a 19 year old to date a 16 year old?
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Many young people are very hung up on the age they reached at their last birthday, but I'd suggest that a more realistic way of thinking about the relative ages of you and the girl is in terms of the percentage difference in your ages.
When you had your four-year-old birthday party, she was only one, and so you were four times her age. On your tenth birthday, you were 30% older than her. After you have your birthday next month, you'll officially be approximately 16% older than her.
Children and adolescents often have a fixation on the age they and others reached at their last birthday, but part of growing up is recognising that many other factors are much more important. There's always going to be a difference in how much life you and she have experienced. Maybe that's important, and maybe it isn't, but what's definitely true is that the degree of difference is decreasing a little with every passing day.