{"id":19153,"date":"2022-05-09T16:39:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=19153"},"modified":"2022-05-09T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:39:25","slug":"should-i-date-a-guy-that-is-8-years-older-than-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/05\/09\/should-i-date-a-guy-that-is-8-years-older-than-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I date a guy that is 8 years older than me?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw050922-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw050922-7.jpg\" alt=\"Should I date a guy that is 8 years older than me?\" class=\"wp-image-19114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw050922-7.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/aw050922-7-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Should I date a guy that is 8 years older than me?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That depends entirely on how he treats you. If he acts at all like there&#8217;s a power imbalance or infantilizes you because of the age difference, absolutely not. If he treats you as an equal partner, then maybe. Eight years is still a big age gap if you&#8217;re in school and your partner isn&#8217;t because of that potential imbalance that&#8217;s less likely to be as prominent if you were both more established in your adult lives. Just procede with caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That depends entirely on how he treats you. If he acts at all like there&#8217;s a power imbalance or infantilizes you because of the age difference, absolutely not. If he treats you as an equal partner, then maybe. Eight years is still a big age gap if you&#8217;re in school and your partner isn&#8217;t because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/05\/09\/should-i-date-a-guy-that-is-8-years-older-than-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Should I date a guy that is 8 years older than me?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19154,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19153\/revisions\/19154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}