The problem that I have with this is that I wonder the intentions of a man "quiet (sic) a bit older" than you when he chooses you over a woman closer to his age. Often these kind of men are either predatory, in which case they don't really "want" you, or they have some defect that leads to them picking you, a teenager, instead of a fully developed adult. This defect might just seem to be a maturity gap where if you both share the same relative maturity level, he will not develop with you, and while you develop naturally and normally into a full adult women, he will be unable to handle such a mature relationship. He might end up dropping you in favor of someone who would be younger than you would be, and as young as you are now. I have specific experience with this kind of relationship, in a friend (This was really a friend, not me. Stop looking at me like that.) and it means bad news. You might think that you are cool, or some other word that would better describe your attitude and frame of mind, because you are dating an older man, but look at it the other way. How would you feel about somebody your age "dating" a ten or eleven year old? You wouldn't think it was cool. You would think it was disgusting. So them why do you think it is so cool (again for lack of better word) for a much older man to date a teenage girl?

Your questions, answered:

The current legal limit is fine. I don't want it to be raised or lowered.

I don't have a problem with the age limit, as I stated above. However, my problem with your relationship have been illustrated even further above.

In your particular case, it might be perfectly okay, but my suspicion is that something is up with your man and that it is either outright immoral or that it contains elements of immorality that must at least be addressed.

I believe that this is a social issue first, closely followed by a moral one, and at a far third is religious.

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