Should I cut ties with this person?

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I get where you're coming from, but look at it from the other angle. "Young love" is the best kind of love. Your body is in tip-top shape. You're still bright-eyes and bushy-tailed, ready to take on the world headstrong. Your hopes haven't been dashed. Your dreams haven't been shattered. Your soul hasn't been jaded. It's just you, your boyfriend/girlfriend, and the unexplored world. From an evolutionary point of view, humans were meant to achieve independence from their parents right at puberty: age 12 or so. In which case, everybody once had a real shot at young love. Sadly, that's not true today: parents, society, and civilization are all taking it away from most teens. At least those capable of finding it. Just like the OP, who's going to lose out on what could be a life-changing positive experience.

Sadly, I never go to experience young love. Even my first relationship, freshman year of college, was so fraught with hassle and frustration, that it hardly passes for "young love". It soured me on pretty much all relationships ever since. I went from viewing them as something beautiful and fun, to a glorified escort service. (And later, I started seeing real escorts.) The closest I came to young love was during a brief encounter with a girl I once met on a cruise: I was 29, she was 23. By then, I already lost a tooth and started losing hair, but the feeling was eerily similar. (I lost another tooth and 15% of my hair since then. )

It wasn't me, either, but I had better luck in my mid-thirties

I am sorry this whole area of life has been negative for you. I hope that changes someday. You don't have to end up with someone, or even date if you don't want to ... it would just be good for you to have positive experiences and perceptions.

Well, I'm in my mid 30's. So I think it's too late for "positive experiences" now. Because in your 30's, relationships are nothing but a tedious laundry list of obligations and prohibitions. Like being a child again, living under your parents' roof. Any fun you do have, it's the wholesome, "churchy" fun, like antiquing and pretentious dinners with other couples. Not the quirky, goofy fun you have in your 20's, like sipping vodka-laced Slurpees and dancing on the sidewalk to any music you hear.

It is unfortunate, yes. Personally, I don't understand parents who say their children can't date. Why not allow them to date but with age/maturity/life-space appropriate parameters? You never know when someone is going to meet the person they are meant to be with. Trying to cut that off for your children doesn't strike me as necessary. Most teens will break up organically. But very so often they actually are meant to be. I find that adorable.

It wasn't me, either, but I had better luck in my mid-thirties

I am sorry this whole area of life has been negative for you. I hope that changes someday. You don't have to end up with someone, or even date if you don't want to ... it would just be good for you to have positive experiences and perceptions.

Ok well more power to you. No point in texting someone who doesn't answer. I hope you wind up finding someone you really like and it works out with.

I agree.

It was very common for freshman girls to date senior guys when I was growing up. It wasn't frowned upon at all. It was considered "normal."

When I was a senior, I dated a sophomore.

This is because girls mature faster than boys. Many freshman boys are still kids. It would be "perverted" for a fully-developed 14-year-old girl to go out with a 14-year-old boy who still really looks like a kid. I looked like a kid when I was 14.