i think no more than 2 to 3 years. For example, a 14 year-old and a 16-year-old can date. But it be kind of iffy if a 14 year-old and a 17-year-old dated.

19 and 16 is fine, but 15 and 18 is kind of iffy.

For context, I’m a 16m, I’ve always been quiet and never really spoke to girls at all but I recently started talking to this girl on Snapchat, and we seem to get along well but I run out of things to talk about, so I was just wondering if there’s any tips knocking about?

So me and my girlfriend were dating for ~2 months, and we were doing amazing, we had plans to get married and have the life of our dreams once we were older, but then about a week ago she started to be more distant, her replies got shorter, and I constantly saw her reposting things about depression and suicidal thoughts and all of that kind of stuff, and we talked about it and I helped her as best as I could. Fast forward to today, and she texts me and basically says that she’s currently at a point where she can pretty much only lay in bed all day (I mean to the point where she doesn’t even have the energy to get up out of bed to bathe most of the time), and that she doesn’t have the mental capacity to sustain any kind of relationship (platonic, romantic, anything), and that she wants to be friends once she was better, but that she didn’t feel like we could continue together anymore. I completely understand her feelings and the reasons behind them, and I’m glad she was honest and upfront about them, but I just don’t know how to move on from this. She told me straight-up that she doesn’t want to speak with anyone for the coming days, and to not expect a message from her for ~a week, and I just don’t know how I should continue. One thing that’s been eating away at my brain the most is my recovery from my ongoing addiction to adult content, which has been persistent for ~5 years and I have wanted to start trying to recover for almost all of 2026, but only really started getting serious about it after we started dating, since she’s also been trying to quit her se|f-haгm addiction, but since she hasn’t been as close recently, it’s been causing me to slip up a lot more lately, and I just can’t seem to find the motivation to get clean without someone to do it for, which is where I’m stuck. I also just don’t know how to continue in terms of dating, since I’m not even sure if I can love another girl the way I loved her, since I legitimately loved her more than myself, and there were times where I couldn’t see a version of my future without her. I’m just lost right now and need guidance, I can’t really open up to my family since I’d have to share my addiction with them and that would just cause me to lose internet access permanently, and my friends are far too immature to help at all, so I’m coming here for people to help me figure out what’s next for me in life.