Scientific fact: evolution has designed your brain to turn off when you fall in love. If people's brains actually worked when they were in love/lust, 99% of all pregnancies wouldn't happen.

You are young and will inevitably do stupid things, that's part of growing up. Keep in touch with your friends and ask them to prevent you from doing anything exceptionally stupid. Do not sign any contracts and do not give away any money that is not disposable income.

Oh gosh, age gaps aren't necessarily bad, the bad thing is that he's using you and taking your money. 18 should be old enough to realise that, if you don't then you're probably not mature enough to deal with a relationship with an older man anyway. You'll love again, don't waste your time on someone who doesn't deserve it.

We all had done stupid things ,some even were unspeakable.
But so what? Who cares? Make mistakes at lease we can learn from it.
Walking away from someone you still in love with is the most hardest thing.
I guess your basic instinct had warned you that the man doesn't love you the way you love him. But you still head blind to the love,right?
But in your case, run for your life,i mean now!!! Find a shelter to cry, to scream after you away from him. You have no choice or else you will have yourself end up so mirsable and asked why you devoted so much love to him in the first place.

been there done that, and almost caused problems with the guy and his wife. Here's a word of advice, walk away from this guy and don't look back.

something tells me the age isn't an issue, he would have been an asshat at 16, 26, now at 36 and will be untill hes 106, run far far away

Any 36 year old man who takes money from an 18 year old girl has something seriously wrong with him. Why does he even need you money? Does he not work? Does he not support himself? This I cannot understand.

I am 25 and my girlfriend is 19, so we've got a bit of an age gap going on. But we also love spending time together, we could just sit around all day and talk about nonesense and neither of us would get bored. I don't take anything from her unless its an occasion [ie: she bought me an MP3 player for christmas] and I don't go dropping my pay cheques on her. The only thing I stand firm on is that I pay when we go out, and not cuz of the typical "I'm the guy so I pay" thing but because she's in University and her money has to be stretched pretty thin, so I'd rather her keep her extra money to go for things involving school as thats a hell of a lot more important than paying $20 to see Mission Impossible 4 in IMAX.

But if you are paying to keep a grown mans lights on there is a problem there, and I can honestly tell you you'll fall out of love real quick once things progress and you realise this bum has no plans for the future [and when you're 36 the future should already be kinda marked out].

I mean come on, can you imagine yourself pushing 40 and having to ask a teenager for cash? Something is wrong there.