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re: Age gaps in relationships. What are your thoughts?
Posted on 12/16/14 at 8:32 pm to jmcs68
Posted on 12/16/14 at 8:32 pm to jmcs68
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Who made this rule and does it apply to women dating younger men?
No. Its from a movie by Jane Austen or some shite...and the creator of the rule has even broken her own rule and created movies that broke the rule. Its all bullshite lol.
ETA: Actually was from a book written based on Muslim Principles.
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The "never date anyone under half your age plus seven" rule is a rule of thumb sometimes used to judge whether the age differences in their potential intimate relationships are socially acceptable within the American culture.[16][17]
Often said to be a French maxim, it appeared in Max O'Rell's Her Royal Highness Woman[18] in 1901 and John Fox, Jr.'s The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come in 1903,[19] and in American newspapers in 1931, attributed to Maurice Chevalier,[20] and in the 1951 play The Moon Is Blue by F. Hugh Herbert.[21]
However the rule has been criticised as being more accurate for men than women, and for allowing a greater maximum age for a woman's partner later in her life than is actually socially acceptable.[22]
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This post was edited on 12/16/14 at 8:36 pm
Posted on 12/16/14 at 8:36 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Its from a movie by Jane Austen
I'm a huge Jane Austen fan and I've never heard this reference until I started posting here.
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