Re: So that's a Yes?

I think it's a legitimate concern especially for people with specific ages that they're attracted to. If someone is only attracted to girls that are 8-11 will they continue to date that person when they are 16 even if they are not attracted to them.

All people change. ALL people. It is plain delusional to aim at finding a person that never changes.

Obviously people don't fall in love and live happily ever after, but that is a goal for relationships isn't it? To find the person you want to be with forever.

No, that's being suicidally delusional.

How do you know it will be the girl breaking it off? What if they man no longer finds her attractive and decides to go look for someone in his age preferance. Are you saying that men just don't do that? It's always the girl who decides to break it off? I find that hard to believe. It's completely possible the girl will break it off, just like it's completely possible the man might break it off.

You don't know, but people change. It is even less fair and less realistic to expect people not to change than to plan ahead for when that happens.

There is a lot of divorce, but those people go into the relationship at least looking for a life-long partner.

And the delusion increases the pain and the conflict when it happens.

If you were with a girl and she ages out of the range that you are attracted to, will you stay with her?

Maybe, maybe not. Futurology is bad enough when done by scientists about science and technology; I certainly don't want to join them with my own personal life on the line, not just hyperspace travel, flying cars or cheap and clean energy.