Can Adventurous May – December Romances Stall on Reality?
resolution to follow your conscience. As it happens, the words of politically correct wisdom that we hear our lives through, can come to sound so much like our conscience that it can become easy to confuse one for the other. The concept of love is an area that has been deeply idealized by voices in the community and the media. If love is to be pure, it is reasoned, then preferences that seem to be discriminatory would have to be expelled and recognized to be alien to love. Such a resolute stance against discriminatory behavior is certainly commendable; but reality can never be denied its due. An area where accepted wisdom in love is under examination by many now is the opinion that romantic attachments are best formed with people who inhabit the same age group as one does oneself. There have been a slew of books and articles of late that have been examining the way relationships work, where romantic couples are separated by a wide age difference. These relationships are far more common
