| I'm going to disagree with JHS and riverrunner here based on personal experience. At 16 I dated a boy four years older in the kind of community you are talking about. The families knew each other etc. We were not having sex at any time in the relationship. However, what did end up was that the boy was a lot more serious than I was about the relationship and at a completely different point in his dating life. I ended up breaking up with him and feeling very emotionally responsible for him. It matters little about the whole sex thing...I would be way more concerned about the emotional difference and time of life difference. And don't give me the "but the girl is mature for her age thing." I just don't buy it. |