[Emyv1]

Originally Posted by bobthecockroach

I was just trying to understand what DJ Clown was taking. I'm sorry if you feel we've gotten away from the purpose of your thread.

Don't worry about it, it's okay.
Thanks

[tlj009]

Two years is nothing.

I disagree with this. Two years is a lot in high school. Obviously, everything depends on circumstances so I am mainly speaking in general. There is a hierarchy in high school that puts freshman at the bottom and seniors at the top. A 14 year old would be freshman or perhaps a sophmore. 16 could be junior or senior. The best case scenario could be a sophmore dating a junior. Then there is the groups within a grade. The 14 year old would be older than his/her classmates and the 16 year old younger. That circumstance could very well lead to as large of a social gap as a freshman and a senior. In short, I see very limited cases where a 14 year old and 16 year old would be dating within there own social class.

There are certain hierarchies when dealing with adults too. And even as adults dating across classes can lead to problems. As adults we set certain rules for our companies and our selves to prevent some of these problems. Teenagers have more problems dealing with peer pressure, urges, etc. than adults have (or should). So I don't think that it is responsible to date outside your class in high school and as I said before I think that a 14 year old and 16 year old are almost always in a different class. Emyv1 is the person in question and perhaps she could say if others in the high school would consider them as equals.

I know terms like "hierarchy" and "social class" tend to have negative connotations and tend to hurt people's pride but they were the best terms that I came up with.

[segoviamuse]

Originally Posted by AXguitar

What about 17 and 15? Because that's when I first started dating my fiancee. Anything wrong with that?

Good intentions? Why is it even necessary to say this?

who ever said good intentions, i think he/she means mature intentions where its not blind or some sort of high school teen popular dating thing. Yeah i'm bad at explaining things. What I know is that when i was 14 I was not ready to have a serious relationship, heck i'm not ready and i'm almost 19.. But God shows the person you're supposed to spend the rest of your life with at different times for everyone, it is just rare to find something that real at a young age. But it does happen . as prooved by axguitar . just make sure you pray lots about it before enter a relationship (which you should do anyways no matter what age you are.) nothing wrong with the age difference if God approves. and you feel that you have similar maturity levels.
A friend of mine is 16 right now and she is getting married to a 20 year old in july. she is fairly mature for her age. I personnally may think that is too early to get married. But they are both christians. and handling the marriage thing really responsibly.