How Young is Too Young? Post a Reply | Views: 472 | Started By: Guest | Replies: 1 Ok here is the deal... I am a 21 year old male and in a relationship with someone significantly younger then me. When we met she was 17 and my logic (possibly flawed as it may be) was that 17 was almost 18 which would by anyone's judgement be cool. So I did nothing to prevent a relationship from grwoing and even becoming quite serious. Unfortunately after we became quite close she revealed that she was only 16. Of coarse my first instinct was that I had to end the relationship. But the more I thought about it the more I realized that i Couldn't bring myself to do that, because of how much we had both grown to love each other. It has been several months since then and we are still together and very much in love. The thing is now I have to try to forget the inconvenioant truth that in most people's eyes she is too young for me, despite the fact that she is much more level headed and mature then girls I usually date, and we are both open honest and intouch with our feelings with eachother which are very strong. I have come to be ok with the "little" things like having to sneak around because of her family and my age, and not being able to see each other much (semi long distance...hour drive) but I still worry that maybe I am unknowingly taking advantage of her youth, which is the last thing I would want to do to someone I care so much about. But at the same time I feel she has a very negative home life, and that I am possibly the only positive influence in her life.We have agreed to restrict how much we see eachother for bouth of our well being, but we still talk at least a couple hours a day. And occassionaly hve lunch or soemthing together. I guess I just want to know, am I being a victimiser becasue I can not quit someone that is so important to me. PS we have been together for 6 months.

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i think thats alright, id speak to the parents if you both feel the same way they should be able to see that. honesty with her parents would be the most important thing you could do. Responded: bex