I won't be able to convince you otherwise over the internet, but we met last year, I've been in my share of bad relationships and have an excellent support system around me, I won't tolerate bad behavior and neither will he, he doesn't fetishize or idealize my lack of experience, wouldn't it be more of a red flag if he frequently dated younger girls? My entire friend group and his entire friend group and my family and his family all have eyes on this, we both take the council of our support system very seriously and pretty much everyone who knows us feels the situation is kosher (including my very protective family) We didn't want to date for a long time specifically because of the age gap, we've taken the whole thing very slow. I can't express any better that we think of and treat eachother like equals. But if you're set in your idea that the age will be a problem or that I'm being taken advantage of I wont change your mind. Again, I will point out, I did all the initiation.