I want to see what people have to say to this one...
So anyways... my girlfriend is 17.
I'm 28.
So... yeah. NO, we haven't broken any laws, and we won't break any laws. Until she's 18, we won't do anything, and haven't done anything, except hug and held hands.
But still... a lot of people react negatively to this. Of course, I know why... but still.
We met on LJ. At the time, she was only 16. For nine months, we were friends, and I told her that we could only be friends, because she was too young, and also because she lives 2500 mile away.
However... we grew closer and closer... the more we talked, the more we discovered we had in common. Before I met her, I never thought I'd find someone who I had a whole lot in common with. But even to this day, she still amazes me. One day, she even told me that she felt like I was "the other half of her brain". I never met someone before who I connected this well with.
After nine months... we both decided that we liked eachother enough to where we had no interest in dating anyone else... that we loved eachother, and so we decided to start calling eachother bf/gf.
After a year of knowing eachother, I decided that I HAD TO MEET HER... just to make sure this whole thing was real, and that she was real.
So I took a trip back east to meet her for the first time. After we met, we still felt the same about eachother.
15 months later... we still feel the same about eachother. Last month, I made a decision... My decision? To leave where I am now (well, I've been wanting to do that for two years now) and go to where she is this summer, after I'm done with the semester here.
A lot of people think I'm crazy. But my intuition is saying that things will work out... my intuition is always right, and bad things only happen when I ignore my intuition. She'll be turning 18 this October anyways... so her age will not be a factor much longer. If it doesn't work out? I'm not worried about it. Maybe the real reason I'm moving back there, is not to get together with her... but because there's something better for me. Who knows.
But for the time being, I'm not worried about it.
But still. I am in love with someone who is 10 years younger than me... someone who is currently a minor. And a lot of people think I'm stupid for this. I don't care. Either it works... or it doesn't. I'm not worried one bit.
But I still want to see what all of you think. It won't change how I feel about her one bit, but if any of you have been in similar situations, I wouldn't mind hearing your stories.
If anything... I figure, if we do stay together, and decide to have kids... by the time I'm ready for that, I'll be in my mid-late '30s, and she'll only be in her mid-late '20s. She won't be too old to do it. But I'm not expecting anything... for all I know... she could dump me a week after I move out there... but I'm not worried about it. I'm not moving out there just for her... I'm moving out there because my intuition is telling me to do so. Like I said... my intuition is usually right, when I listen to it.