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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
I see a lot of maturing going on right now, so ya, I think she'll be more mature at 18 than she is at 17. 18 is of course an arbitrary marker for adulthood and there's definitely no assurance someone is an adult at 18. I find adulthood is a byproduct of life experience, usually bad experiences. But ya, age and maturity are very relative. I know too many 40 year olds who aren't as mature as a lot of 16-18 year olds in many ways, but they do at least have some life experience to draw from when making decisions. At least in theory they do.
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I guess that was my point, that it's never as black and white as "she's x years old, so it's wrong". I have a 14 year old cousin who has been through a lot in her short life. At this point, I would say she is more able to deal with the psychological issues that arise in sexual relationships than I am! I'm not saying I wouldn't kill the 30 year old who followed her home from school though. So yeah... it's conflicting. If she was in a healthy relationship I think it would be ok... but would you ever trust the guy enough to believe it was "healthy". My relationships always fail because I get too involved in them. Isn't that what we worry would happen to the kids? That they would let the relationshp control and shape their life in a negative way? I do that every time!!!
Guess I'm just playing around with thought experiments.
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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
Wasn't that Mike Comrie.....  |
Haha, my friend and I call Comrie "Duffman" now whenever we play NHL '09.