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I'm questioning the math skills of the author of the YA book I'm reading because she's trying to pass off a pairing between a 16 year old and 21 year old as non-creepy. I'm also not loving all the mangas I'm reading that have no issues hooking up young teens with people in their early twenties. But, as a teen, I vaguely remember being totally cool with this sorta thing, definitely in fiction and often enough in real life. And it's this realization that brings home just how predatory these relationships are. At 14, I didn't think much about power differentials.

While dating can be a way for youth to learn positive relationship skills like mutual respect, trust, honesty, and compromise, it also can present challenges. Youth in relationships with the following features may be at risk:. Adolescents and caring adults can learn to spot warning signs that a friendship or romantic relationship is unhealthy. Violence is not the only important sign. Unhealthy relationship behaviors can include:. Some youth find themselves in violent dating relationships. Dating violence can be emotional, physical, or sexual.

When I was in high school, I dated an appalling-in-retrospect string of men five years or more my senior. I met most of them at the Rocky Horror Picture Show , which was where my friends and I spent our adolescent Saturday nights. The twenty-something men who hung out there treated us like adults, or what we imagined that to mean at they smiled and nodded thoughtfully when we spoke, leaned in as though our every stray thought was fascinating.

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