What are you talking about? No one cares about a a 2yr age gap
You know how many HS senior girls (17) have a college freshman or sophomore 18-19) boyfriend?

Plenty. She’d be way more connected to someone within her age range. Which is exactly why she started dating someone young.
Why in the world would anyone think a girl who graduated from HS 1yr ago would truly forgo guys her age for a man 2 years from 30? Lmao
If you have an age gap like that you’re supposed to show a girl a whole new world.
He was supposed to put that GI bill to use; get a degree, get a good job, get a VA loan and buy a damn house. THAT is how you attempt to impress a girl who is that much younger than you. Or any woman really.
Not have her come over to a fukking apartment you live in with your parents.
You’d have more privacy dating someone who lived in a damn dorm 9-10 months of the year

Shyt, the 17yo probably had better long term
prospects…he was probably off to a 4yr year institution.
Damn shame