Help? Please?

In all technicality, if you're 19 and he's 33, you're both adults. You can both choose to be friends if you want. Your family might not like it, but there's nothing much they can do about it since you are over 18...:) I don't really have much advice other than that. But I hope that helps a bit! :D

I agree with Evie; since you're both over the age of 18, there is technically nothing wrong with your relationship. Sometimes age really is just a number when you meet someone you have chemistry with. He's not treating you badly, pressuring you, or engaging in unhealthy/illegal habits, and I think that alone speaks very highly of him.

I think that you should take your family's opinion into account, but ultimately it's your decision. If you love him and care for him and he feels the same way for you then it doesn't matter. I've known and heard of several couples who have a large age difference and honestly it doesn't matter. Good luck!

He sounds like a solid guy, and you sound like you're pretty sensible. You're also both consenting adults, so I don't see anything wrong with it.

Since you are both above the age of 18 and you are adults, you are entitled to choose whether or not you'll take your family's advice. I believe it is okay to retain a relationship with him as long as you don't feel like he's trying to pressure you or convince you to do things that you don't want to. I think this could easily become a healthy relationship, and you should explain that to your family.

It's weird right that the stigma is always 'if they're older- they're creepier or have done stuff or are bad people' but it's so not true. I've always been an older soul and have hated hanging around people my age and it sounds like you're kind of in the same boat since you didn't really seem to question it earlier on. I mean, you are in different stages of your lives, so if it's going to become something romantic, I might think about it a bit more because issues can arise such as him wanting to settle down and you not or just different generation barriers but if you're just hanging out- pssh, it doesn't matter if he was born in '73 (at least that's what I think). :)