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Do Age Gaps in Relationships Really Matter?

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. Sign up here to get it nightly. Jessica Moss met Kevin Hardesty in the summer of at a feature-film production company in Los Angeles. He was a year-old executive; she was a year-old intern. Moss first spotted Hardesty while she was doing paperwork in the operations department: He strolled by wearing a slim maroon Prada dress shirt tucked into a pair of perfectly cut trousers and had thick horn-rimmed glasses. On the last day of her internship, she followed him to the elevators as he was leaving to go home and asked him out to lunch. Moss moped through her first trip to Paris that Christmas. She talked about him constantly with her friends.

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Besides that night at the bar, I can recall only two occasions when I was painfully cognizant of the age gap. The first was when I introduced him to my parents: I still feel twelve years old around them, which made him seem very thirty three years old. Even big age gaps tend to become less taboo as people get older, and it certainly matters at what age the couple met. It's almost a point of pride for me, because the expectation is that he would make more money. He was 40, filling in over the summer as an adviser and copy editor.

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Mark Twain said, "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. The way we date and who we date has changed dramatically over the years. What you wanted when you were 25 is vastly different from what you wanted at Thank god! There are numerous factors that influence who we end up dating.

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What Is an Acceptable Age Gap In Relationships?

Finding the person you love can be a beautiful thing. For some couples, that person may be significantly older or significantly younger. Age-gap relationships can bring joy and excitement but might also present unique challenges.

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