Comments on: JOHNNY HARRIS: BAD BOY http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:00:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Virna http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/#comment-128 Virna Tue, 19 Feb 2008 21:23:27 +0000 http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/#comment-128 Lone, good for you for at least exploring the relationship. It sounds like you learned a lot about yourself and what you want from a partner. The key is just to find a mature, driven man who likes to make out too! :) Mark, I love V.M. and I loved that movie. He was such a complex, surprising character to the very end. He can project goodness without flinching from the character's dark side. Jill, I've always sensed a wild side in you! I'm sure you made that sophomore's year. I'd love to know what are your favorite younger man books -- I haven't found a lot of them. Kerry- you're so right. It's the sum total of the man, not the age that makes the difference. That's why keeping an open mind is so important. My brother (who is not the most mature person to begin with :)) is 12 years younger than my sister-in-law and they just celebrated their 19th anniversary. Every man and every couple is unique, and it's all about where two people happen to be at that moment. Lone, good for you for at least exploring the relationship. It sounds like you learned a lot about yourself and what you want from a partner. The key is just to find a mature, driven man who likes to make out too! :)

Mark, I love V.M. and I loved that movie. He was such a complex, surprising character to the very end. He can project goodness without flinching from the character’s dark side.

Jill, I’ve always sensed a wild side in you! I’m sure you made that sophomore’s year. I’d love to know what are your favorite younger man books — I haven’t found a lot of them.

Kerry- you’re so right. It’s the sum total of the man, not the age that makes the difference. That’s why keeping an open mind is so important. My brother (who is not the most mature person to begin with :)) is 12 years younger than my sister-in-law and they just celebrated their 19th anniversary. Every man and every couple is unique, and it’s all about where two people happen to be at that moment.

]]> By: Virna http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/#comment-127 Virna Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:54:44 +0000 http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/#comment-127 Misa, you are so right about the greater controversy this issue might have caused today given the greater focus on females who prey on young boys. In One Summer, Johnny is five years younger than Rachel--she obviously started teaching right out of school! It's not a huge focus in the book, because the concentration is on their present relationship, like you said, but Karen doesn't ignore the issue either. Misa, you are so right about the greater controversy this issue might have caused today given the greater focus on females who prey on young boys. In One Summer, Johnny is five years younger than Rachel–she obviously started teaching right out of school! It’s not a huge focus in the book, because the concentration is on their present relationship, like you said, but Karen doesn’t ignore the issue either.

]]> By: Kerry Allen http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/#comment-126 Kerry Allen Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:31:45 +0000 http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/#comment-126 I passed on a younger guy once, probably only a 2- or 3-year difference, but he seemed so YOUNG. I was a single mom of a toddler, working my butt of to make ends meet, and he was all bright and shiny and full of optimism, still in college. He was very cute and very good with my daughter, and putting him off was probably one of life's huge mistakes, but I really felt at the time there was too great a gulf in life experience to end well for either of us. Now that Fun Kerry is let out of her cage almost as often as Responsible Kerry, I'd probably be a little more receptive. I think the deciding factor for me is maturity level. I don't want to be The Boss in a relationship if it entails taking all the responsibility. I already have a child to take care of, in other words, and I don't need or want another one with a five o'clock shadow. Younger-yet-reliable could absolutely work. So could older-yet-playful. ;p I passed on a younger guy once, probably only a 2- or 3-year difference, but he seemed so YOUNG. I was a single mom of a toddler, working my butt of to make ends meet, and he was all bright and shiny and full of optimism, still in college. He was very cute and very good with my daughter, and putting him off was probably one of life’s huge mistakes, but I really felt at the time there was too great a gulf in life experience to end well for either of us. Now that Fun Kerry is let out of her cage almost as often as Responsible Kerry, I’d probably be a little more receptive.

I think the deciding factor for me is maturity level. I don’t want to be The Boss in a relationship if it entails taking all the responsibility. I already have a child to take care of, in other words, and I don’t need or want another one with a five o’clock shadow. Younger-yet-reliable could absolutely work.

So could older-yet-playful. ;p

]]> By: Jill James http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/#comment-124 Jill James Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:53:31 +0000 http://chasingheroes.com/johnny-harris-bad-boy/#comment-124 I believe age shouldn't be a consideration as long as everyone is legal. LOL But when I was a senior in high school I dated a sophomore because I could be the dominant in charge person. Very heady stuff when you are 17. hahahahahahaha I've read several older woman/younger man books and I enjoy them. Why should men have all the fun? I believe age shouldn’t be a consideration as long as everyone is legal. LOL But when I was a senior in high school I dated a sophomore because I could be the dominant in charge person. Very heady stuff when you are 17. hahahahahahaha I’ve read several older woman/younger man books and I enjoy them. Why should men have all the fun?

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