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Originally Posted by RealJames
I had an 18 year old gf when I was 24, most my friends gave me "that talk" and "that look" worried I was becoming a lowlife dirtbag etc etc, maybe that's just the area I lived in Canada...
One of my friends here, who's 31, has a 19 year old gf and no one thinks twice about it... it's just more accepted here it seems.
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It is, in my opinion. It`s pretty normal to see marriages with the man being much older. I think it`s traditionally something fairly common, and that has carried over to modern attitudes. Obviously extremes aren`t going to be accepted, but that sort of age gap is nothing strange. The parents of the family I stayed with when I first came to Japan fit this - the father was 64 and the mother 50 - perfectly normal.
Maybe how common marriages are between older men and younger women plays a part. There don`t seem to be as many wide age gap marriages in the US/Canada, so I think there is a tendency to look at them as something completely physical without any chance of being serious.