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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/41543
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There is nothing wrong with such a pairing - unless one is fifteen.

A cousin of mine had been dating for years and finally found the one. He called me to tell me about her, but was initially embarrassed to mention her age. He finally told me - twenty year difference and they are a perfect match.

My parents had an eleven year age difference and it was thought nothing of.

Just write the characters and their relationship and forget about age differences. Why worry about it?

The only real issue might be that you seem to think it is wrong and that will color your depiction of it.

You say they are not good people. Please let it be more than he ‘robbed the cradle ‘ or she did. My characters do some very questionable things, but never do I assign them with the role of villain. I have characters say to each other that heroes and villains are not the stuff of life, that good people do bad things and bad people do good things. Shades of grey - sometimes getting rather dark, but no judgement of good or evil.

These are my characters and I am fond of them. I hope you are fond of that couple, despite the things you will do to them. Adversity often brings people together, forming unbreakable bonds.

You might come to love these two, watching them grow together as characters both individually and as a couple.

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