I once thought I'd fallen in love with an adorable lawyer who started chatting with me while we waited at a crosswalk in Manhattan. I felt limit immediate spark, and after we exchanged numbers, we planned our first date without ever bringing up our ages.

Then he excused himself to the go to the bathroom while I sat wondering what our relationship age gap meant: Would he want to move faster in a relationship? Would he be thinking about children already?

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Would he be appalled limit my tiny studio apartment, which I could barely afford? We continued to date until, eventually, our lifestyles proved drastically different.

His career and financial dating were a far cry from dating, and the idea of things getting serious felt rushed and scary to me. So I let our connection slip away, allowing my concern over our age difference to overshadow our passion. It was ultimately the right call, I felt, and experts seem to agree. The truth is that age is not just a number, says Seth Meyers, Age.

A relationship age click to see more bigger than 10 years often comes with its own set of issues.

Does age matter?

Couples with a big age difference need to think things through or risk finding themselves at conflicting stages in their age. But at the same time, I still keep an open mind—a big age gap doesn't have to be a nonstarter. Instead, be realistic about what you want in someone, not what you want from their age.

And we should all be more open-minded. Topics dating relationships. By Irina Gonzalez. By Korin Miller. Good Sex. Sleep Over?

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