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This is a serious discussion.

Is a relationship with an under age person really a problem?

I'm of the opinion that it depends on the situation and also if you don't actually do anything.

what do other people think?

Thanks Angelic_Highlights.

Your right about those different age situations. I could not have put it better myself.

But i want to know what the people here think of that kind of situation. Especially since my own situation In a different section highlights this age issue with people who are under age.

I understand what your saying EggaxSponge.

After i made my last post here. i realised that when i first met the person in my situation she was not quite 14. but when things first happened she was 14. i would have been 20 at the time. 6 year gap.

It does sound kinda a little wrong now about what it was when it started now that i look back. but it was a 2 way street If anyone can remember my old Avi that was somthing she designed for me. It also in a way represented our relationship. (enough said) And i said at the begining that i would go with whatever she felt comfortable with.

But that's just my relationship. but because of her i've only been at my comp twice with any Alcohol in me. First time i was talking to her while drinking Cider (After that i made a promice never to do it again even though my head was almost totatly clear. and i hardly drink anyway). the only other time she wasn't on.

Yeah, I would say it is a bit of a big age gap. I mean, I have relationships on the internet, but I don't take a whole lot more out of them than a really good friend. My gaia wife and I have been married for a year and two months, and we're just like really good friends....since neither one of us is actually sexually attracted to the other... xd Online relationships can be different than real-life ones, unless you want to do what Angelic did and meet people you fall in love with on the internet irl. (She met her fiancee that way, but they lived in the same country). I think that you and your online gf live far enough away that the chances of this happening are slim, especially since she did not ask you before attempting to stay at your parent's place. So yeah, I would try and hold onto this girl, but maybe not in as deep a relationship as you would like it to be. From what it sounds like she's not ready to compromise with you on this, hence she would have asked for your phone number to call and talk about her coming to visit you. You should find a girl who's ready to take you seriously, syke, you're too nice of a guy to hope for commitment from someone who isn't ready to give it.

Um that doesn't really make sence. She was going to ask you, but she forgot, and thought you said no? Did she assume you would say no?

It's hard to comment where exactly you are in regards to these types of relationships because it sort of depends on the relationship. I mean, sometimes a 20 year old really does fall in love with a 16 year old. Sometimes it is really love, and there are no underlying motives at all. However, it can always go the other way. A friend of mine was 15 and her boyfriend was 32 when they met, and let me tell you, his intentions were not gentleman-like.
I understand the whole "age aint nothing but a number" debate, and I know that's true, but when you're that young you make foolish decisions that will affect the rest of your life. Maturity doesn't have anything to do with it, when you're young you're malleable, you're still at that young age where outside views can change you. And when you're that naive, you tend to believe this relationship is going to last forever, they can tell you anything they want and you're so inexperienced that you actually believe it.

k i r s c h e 084: I know about the age is just a number argument and i don't believe in that.

What i do believe in is that it depends fully on the people involved.

I know also about people who's intentions are not gentleman-like. However I've always tried to make it clear that I'm a far cry from uneducated, uncivilised, Out of control people.

I know where she goes when she disappears normally. She gets busy with something and i have no right to discuss it you. By rights, I shouldn't know either but i do.

Sataric: My Situation is similar to yours. All the time scales on every level is different. But when it came to an issue of meeting each other. that's where things broke down. but I'm not going to repeat myself.

Suffice to say that she got upset and found someone else's shoulder to cry on. I hope that we can resolve the issue when she comes back. as for me Flying anywhere that's not possible right now. I'm a Degree Student, i don't have a job, And i don't have a passport or driving licence yet. so to fly over 5000 miles is a little difficult for me. That's partly when i did finally find out about her trip actually being arranged it did surprise me a little. But by then it was too late to change any plans.

I would just like to remind people that the poll is their opinion on the issue not their opinion on my circumstances. If people want to talk about my issues. post it in the right thread or IM me please.

It detracts from the purpose of the thread.

Although my issues are relivent. and the cause for this thread. My issues are not the actual subject for debate. I just want to make this clear oweing to the large number of referances to my own issues.

I just don't want people getting the idea that this is about me asking if my relationship is o.k. More looking at the whole contraversial discussion that instances like mine bring up.

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Edit:

I say this because i am personally disturbed by the 1 vote for "It's Fine"
I put that option into the poll on the grounds that i knew almost nonoe would go for that option. It is a good idea to leave a question fully open.like that. but for somone to come out and say that they believe that such a relationship is fine reguardless is i find very shocking.

Although it is possable that somone read the poll or simply didn't read it and voted. In which case that is understandable.