I don't get that. 14-year-old girls look cute to a 16-year-old boy, but if they still look date-able when he is 18, something's wrong with him.
When we moved to Iowa from California I was 14. We lived with my Aunt and Uncle at first. My older cousins were 17, 18 years old and dated 14 year old girls that you’d swear were in their early 20’s.
“I don’t get that. 14-year-old girls look cute to a 16-year-old boy, but if they still look date-able when he is 18, something’s wrong with him.”
You’re looking at the past through todays lense.
My mom is 83, the youngest of 10.
Of her 5 sisters all were married by the time they were 17.
Their husbands were usually 10 years older.
Back then girls were looking for men who were of good character, honest, hardworking and thrifty.
They found them in older, settled men.
Boys were expected to sow their wild oats for a few years then find a nice girl to settle down with.
Her 4 brothers all married girls 8-10 years younger than them.
Any girl worth having their own age was already married.
The only nice girls were younger.
Of those 9 couples there was not 1 divorce.
All the family worked hard and maintained a good middle class income.