<human>: Hey reddit!

I've known this girl at my workplace for a few years now. We started hanging out and talking to each other a lot earlier this year.  She's 8 years older than I am though, and our friendship/relationship seemed to hit a wall when we got to discussing our age differences and considered a possible relationship.  I made it clear to this girl that age didn't matter to me at all, and that I really liked her, but it must have been too big an issue for her. Because, she became more interested in trying to set me up with one of her friends instead, but it just didn't work out. Eventually, things kinda fell apart for us and we were nothing more than just friends for awhile and didn't hang out much anymore.

Well this past week, she decided to start talking to me again, and she came on really flirtatious at work too.  We talk everyday for many hours now. But it seems like every so often, the age difference thing randomly gets brought up in our conversations and talks end a little awkward. I always say to her age doesn't matter and I feel like I never get a full blown response or acceptance from her though.  We have so much in common, we talk about music and movies all the time. We can tell each other pretty much anything too.  I feel like an age difference is the only thing keeping us from something better though and I hate it.  I feel like I've made my feelings known to her, but it's the same old thing.  Maybe I need to be more upfront and to the point with how I truly feel.

I'm spending some time with her this weekend too, but I just need help Reddit.  How do I convince a woman to not worry about age difference... or is this impossible?  I feel we're missing out on a great possible relationship because of it.  Normally I'd understand the arguments... Like me being and college and her being an adult. But see, we're both in college and really in the same life situations. So age seems really redundant at this point.

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<bot>: I like this girl alot, but she's 8 years older than me, and even though we like each other, I think she's afraid of dating a man as young as me.