Dating a younger guy in your 20s

When it comes to the subject of love we always hope that there are no real significant barriers to its success. But what about age? And what about age as it relates to older women involved with younger men? Actress Robin Wright, 47, is engaged to fellow actor Ben Foster, Pop star Shakira is involved with a man 10 years her junior.

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When I met my boyfriend Jesse, I was 28 and he was 24 — not too much of a dating age difference in the grand scheme of things, but to hear some of my friends at the time tell it, you'd think we were Harold and Maude — or at the very least, Ashton and Demi. In the early days of our relationship, I got a lot of a lot of exasperated eyerolls, "you go, girl"s, and questions about whether I was technically old enough to be a cougar. I also had a lot of friends who couldn't believe how dumb I was — didn't I remember how difficult it was to get a guy to commit at age 24?

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