Talk:Ezra Fitz (Book Character)/@comment-71.60.36.44-20130827234824/@comment-24.224.81.43-20130828222542

While I agree that no relationship should be secret, ESPECIALLY a teacher student, there are so many small minded people in the world who look at age over personality. Not saying that teachers should date students, it's illegal, so they shouldn't. If they want to, they should get out of that class.

Now of course it depends on the whole age thing. There is a HUGE difference between a 17  year old Aria dating a 24 year old Fitz than a 24 year old Fitz dating a 14 year old freshman.

My point is, people are stupid and forget personality and mentalitiy and maturity are all things that are developed by us at different rates.

Myself for example, I am a 29 year old male, whom is now engaged to a 21 year old.

We began dating when she had just turned 17, WITH her parents consent. Not only that, we didn't have sex until she was 20 (as we both wanted to wait until we knew we were really in love), I have never drank before in my life, I have a full time job and my bought my own house right out of college, and I don't even do any kinds of drugs.

I look younger than my age and act younger, socially at least. I've always been more mature in terms of knowing when it's time to have fun/goof off, how to treat other people (aka, never gossipping, bullying, partying), and getting good grades.

The people who know us, have always supported our relationship, however there were times early on, when people other than her parents would give me a hard time to the point I almost wanted to end it just to make sure she wouldn't start getting the negativity.

She didn't let me though. Why are we so happy still? It's because of how well we get along, hence our PERSONALITIES.

I"m not a mean or negative person by any means, but this is something that has always fueled me in a negative way, how people in America will judge based on age immediately. Obviously there are circumstances where, yes, something needs to be done, but if you were to take the time to actually get to know some of the people in these "controversial," relationships, you would find out that some of them are better couples and matches than most other "normal," couples are.

My general point is, that people in this country need to stop discriminating against age differences in relationships, at least not all of them. There are some that are genuine and truly romantic and beautiful.