Dating a younger guy in high school?

floridadad55
Sun, 04 Sep 2011 13:56:56 +0000

XCloudy:

Her is my advice, as a father (albeit not a father of daughters).

My advice is to simply go out on a date and see how it goes.

You don’t have to marry him, or even make him your exclusive boyfriend, if you feel funny about it afterwards. It would just be an exploratory date.

Since you will hopefully soon be off to college, I wouldn’t get involved with ANY guy with any “long term” plans in mind.

All boyfriends and girlfriends, in my view, must be jettisoned when you go off to college.

I know kids don’t like to hear that, but I have MANY anecdotes supporting this position.

Given that we are now in the 21st Century, I see nothing wrong with you asking him out.

It might get a little wierd though, picking up your date in your car, who is not yet old enough to drive !!!

But seriously, given the fact that you have thought about it enough to post a thread about it on CC, you might as well give it a try.

Just mention to him that you really want to go see a particular movie, and he might take the hint.