<human>: I'm 21 and the girl in question is 17, 18 soon. I'm in the UK and she lives in Alabama.

I met her on holiday at a beach and I didn't know her age until I found she had Facebook'd me two weeks later. At that time we just got something to eat and kept in touch and connected almost immediately. We have both agreed we connect in the distinct and rare way you would expect from two people really interested in each other.

She really seems to want to take things with me a little more seriously, as in start dating. I have no face-value objection to the notion of dating her when you take away the distance quality: she seemed like a great person, I think she is, and to that end not anybody I would be shy of dating. But I remember when I was her age I was more impressionable than I am now, so my prerogative is to advance the situation as slowly as possible if at all; so there is that to worry about.

To that end I've said that I want to contact her at least electronically (via Skype conversations regularly) and see how we get on over a long period of time before I even consider that (after all we have only met twice).

Thus the distance and age gap are concerning. Should we find ourselves in that situation I am interested in any positive or negative experiences people have had in long-distance relationships or dating women with a similar age gap?

What I'm certain of is if things do work out then something wonderful could come of all of this. Awkwardly enough whilst I've experienced a lot in terms of dating and having relationships with people my age, the way we connected exceeded all of that unbeknownst to her age. There is then a Walt Disney idealism motivating the long distance thing: all the best love stories I've heard are as crazy as this one and maybe I might end up having that glorified romanticism in my life if I just gave it a shot.

At the moment I'm treading lightly but a little hindsight is certainly appreciable here.

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<bot>: Met a younger girl on holiday we got on really well, keeping in touch .etc. Assuming this is something we both really wanted would anybody agree this might actually work out?