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    Default Is It Illegal for Me to Be in a Non-Sexual Relationship if I Am 13 and He is 18

    I am 13 years old, 5 years and 1 week younger than my boyfriend. On July 9th we will have been together for 1 year. We met at a hotel in Florida and we both really connected from the start, neither of us knew the other’s age, and I’m sure he thought I was older than I am since I look and behave relatively more mature than most 13 year old girls. I met his father and he met my mother, they didn’t object to us hanging out or to us currently dating. There is a lot in common between the two of us, we’re not as different as one would expect. He lives in Tennessee and I live in Ohio, we have not had sex or any sexual contact. Is this relationship considered illegal?

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    Default Re: Is It Illegal for Me to Be in a Non-Sexual Relationship if I Am 13 and He is 18

    There are no laws on who may be friends.

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    Default Re: Is It Illegal for Me to Be in a Non-Sexual Relationship if I Am 13 and He is 18

    If your parents are OK with it, then it's not illegal. (What his parents think about it is completely irrelevant.)

    However, if you do start having any sexual contact before you turn 18, it's not the relationship that becomes illegal, it's him that becomes a criminal. He could easily go to prison for having sexual contact with you before you're 18 - even if you agree to/participate in the sexual contact.

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    Default Re: Is It Illegal for Me to Be in a Non-Sexual Relationship if I Am 13 and He is 18

    Actually, even if the OP's parents aren't OK with it, it doesn't make a platonic relationship illegal until they take some legal action such as a restraining order against the adult.

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    Default Re: Is It Illegal for Me to Be in a Non-Sexual Relationship if I Am 13 and He is 18

    However, until she is 18, her parents are GOD. If they say it's no, then it's no, even if the law doesn't care.

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    Default Re: Is It Illegal for Me to Be in a Non-Sexual Relationship if I Am 13 and He is 18

    Agreed. But the question was is it illegal (it isn't) and there was a post that it would be if the parents weren't OK with it (still isn't unless the parents take successful legal action.)

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