Defining the Age Gap

I officially have a date tomorrow with The Veteran.  We're going out to dinner, which is a little intense for a first date.  I'm much more of a drink girl, personally.  I'm looking forward to it though - I like him well enough, and it's about time I actually went out with someone.  All this emailing is killing my witty date banter.  He's not much of a texter though, which is probably good.  I'm fairly terrible at it, so it's kind of saving me from myself.  I'm not sure yet where we'll be heading, but he lives in North Center, so I'm hoping it's a good spot in between us.  Fingers crossed it's not Nick's Uptown - I swear to god I would cancel on the spot.

In other news, I started emailing with a 25 year old.  Now, on the surface, I don't think a 2 year age difference is even worth mentioning in conversation.  Add to it that this kid (see, and my problem starts) just bought a condo in North Center and has lived in Chicago for 7 years, and it seems like he's far more put together than I am.  But I have a theory...

Men are inherently at least 2 years behind women in maturity.  It's a fact...and that 2 year position is a minimum.  I've dealt with a variety of men from all kinds of social classes and situations, and it seems to be a pretty standard assumption that you take their age, subtract two, and come up with how old they act.  Sometimes you have to take 5-7 years, but let's not make this depressing.  So while Junior (yes, he's officially earned a nickname) may only be 2 legitimate years younger than me, he's actually 4 maturity years.  Which means, I may be going out with a 23 year old.  Yikes. 

Now, as I said, he seems to have his shit together, and I'm not writing him off just because of his age.  However, I am beyond curious if I'm right.  I mean, all the facts seem to be pointing to the fact that he's very mature and adult-like.  So, here's hoping.  Maybe I can turn out to be a bit of a puma.  ReeaAAarrr.

I'm still emailing with Meatloaf, but he went on a vacation last weekend and I haven't heard from him yet.  He's been a bit of a slow responder already, but I really hope he doesn't fall off the radar.  And The Professor is still in the mix as well...but my interest is severely waning, which is not a good sign.  I also picked up another one...The Cyclist, but he seems to be having inadequacy issues already, and I really just don't understand that or find it remotely attractive.  Onwards and upwards.