Agreed. I feel like a hypocrite saying this because not too long ago I had a huge crush on a much older man, and I totally get the appeal. But I'm glad I didn't act on it because I was too addicted to my feelings to look at the situation critically.
Even as a 26 year old I would feel like a pedophile dating an 18 year old. There's nothing wrong with you (OP) wanting to date a man that much older, but there would be something wrong with him wanting to date you. And even as eternally optimistic about human nature as I am, I would find it hard to believe that you'd be much more than a young body to him. Unless he was really dysfunctional either mentally, emotionally, or both - in which case yeah, not the best person to be dating.
Which is not at all to say that you're unintelligent, immature for your age, or anything bad about you - you just are the age you are, and the older you get the more you realize how crazy young that is and just how much a person changes in even a few short years. The most precocious 18 year old is still an infant in the world of adulthood.
IIN that I really want to be with an older man?
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Agreed. I feel like a hypocrite saying this because not too long ago I had a huge crush on a much older man, and I totally get the appeal. But I'm glad I didn't act on it because I was too addicted to my feelings to look at the situation critically.
Even as a 26 year old I would feel like a pedophile dating an 18 year old. There's nothing wrong with you (OP) wanting to date a man that much older, but there would be something wrong with him wanting to date you. And even as eternally optimistic about human nature as I am, I would find it hard to believe that you'd be much more than a young body to him. Unless he was really dysfunctional either mentally, emotionally, or both - in which case yeah, not the best person to be dating.
Which is not at all to say that you're unintelligent, immature for your age, or anything bad about you - you just are the age you are, and the older you get the more you realize how crazy young that is and just how much a person changes in even a few short years. The most precocious 18 year old is still an infant in the world of adulthood.
Btw I like your name, snoopmoth :P
Take care of yourself, OP.