Beth and Daryl, lets be honest there was chemistry
Forewarning the key for apostrophe and quotation symbols is broken on my keyboard.
I work at one of the largest research libraries in the world and I:d be a terrible librarian if I didn't read whatever I could get my hands on. Read a study on women:s preferences in partners. I looked into the ages of Herschel and Beth:s mom Annette. I'm assuming theres an age gap of about five years which is very common. One question asked was the age gap of their biological parents. One thing they learned is women who were more likely to prefer older men like 10 to 20 years older, their father was much older then their mother.
According to the TWD Wiki Annette was in her mid 50s when she turned. Herschel was early 70s and with a 13 estimated year span of the series. I know he died a couple years before. But I:m using 13 as the base number to subtract so he was around 60.
According to Daryl:s Wiki at the beginning he was early 40s. So he still falls into the 20 year age gap. Although he was a very good much older brother to his oopsie baby siblings. But none of us can deny there was a lot of chemistry between them so them dating really isn't out of the realm of reality. But I think why there was such amazing chemistry between the two of them is because they were the ying to the other:s yang. Daryl had a very difficult life with a checkered past while Beth was young, naive and innocent. Regardless of how the friendship/relationship panned out they needed each other. Its a shame they didn't get longer because at the house they really bonded hard.