Younger boyfriend jokingly makes fun of my age

[Anonymous]

For reference, he’s 26 and I’m 35. He makes jokes occasionally about me being older- him having more time than me or men aging “like a fine wine”. Honestly it annoys me and seems immature, but he says they’re just jokes and is quite loving otherwise. I don’t know if I’m overreacting

[Anonymous]

You’re mad that your 20 something boyfriend is immature?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You’re mad that your 20 something boyfriend is immature?

Is that all it is? Just immaturity that he’ll grow out of? I worry it’s something deeper

[Anonymous]

Op, at 35 you need to get more serious with your life.

[Anonymous]

I make jokes about my older husband. We've been together 20 years. I think this is a universal thing, but your boyfriend needs to tone it down if you're a little bit insecure about your age difference.

[Anonymous]

I mean he'll dump you eventually and marry someone his age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean he'll dump you eventually and marry someone his age.

Unless PP is wealthy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean he'll dump you eventually and marry someone his age.

This is what all the bitter old men tell themselves. Wishful thinking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean he'll dump you eventually and marry someone his age.

This is probably what you are worried about. Listen to that feeling. You don't want to end up dumped at 40 by a 31 year old.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For reference, he’s 26 and I’m 35. He makes jokes occasionally about me being older- him having more time than me or men aging “like a fine wine”. Honestly it annoys me and seems immature, but he says they’re just jokes and is quite loving otherwise. I don’t know if I’m overreacting

Wait a few years and you’ll get dumped and he will end up with a 25 year old. At least you’ll be pushing 40 and single.

Sorry to sound harsh, but this is how it almost always plays out. He will grow up a bit, realize he wants kids, and a woman pushing 40 isn’t it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For reference, he’s 26 and I’m 35. He makes jokes occasionally about me being older- him having more time than me or men aging “like a fine wine”. Honestly it annoys me and seems immature, but he says they’re just jokes and is quite loving otherwise. I don’t know if I’m overreacting

Wait a few years and you’ll get dumped and he will end up with a 25 year old. At least you’ll be pushing 40 and single.

Sorry to sound harsh, but this is how it almost always plays out. He will grow up a bit, realize he wants kids, and a woman pushing 40 isn’t it.

I hate to pile on and be depressing, but this would be my concern, OP, if you were my friend. If you want kids, now is the time, with him or someone else.

[Anonymous]

As a lesbian that thinks like a dude I can tell you exactly what's going on.

Its a tactic weak men use to get women (usually out of their league) to stick around. They insult/poke fun at the woman in the hopes of breaking down her self-esteem so as to make her insecure.

women want to be desired and men want to be needed....SO attacking a woman's self esteem is an attack on her ability to feel desirable. If she feels undesirable she wont "look elsewhere" and "stick with what she has"

back in the day when i dated men to "fit in" and they started that "insecure game" i would tell them i knew exactly what they were doing and it would always SHUT THEM DOWN

give it a shot or battle him at his own game and go after his desire to be needed. Usualy a quick penis size joke always works

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You’re mad that your 20 something boyfriend is immature?

Is that all it is? Just immaturity that he’ll grow out of? I worry it’s something deeper

Do you really want to date someone that has to “grow out of something”? At 35? You can’t be serious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For reference, he’s 26 and I’m 35. He makes jokes occasionally about me being older- him having more time than me or men aging “like a fine wine”. Honestly it annoys me and seems immature, but he says they’re just jokes and is quite loving otherwise. I don’t know if I’m overreacting

Wait a few years and you’ll get dumped and he will end up with a 25 year old. At least you’ll be pushing 40 and single.

Sorry to sound harsh, but this is how it almost always plays out. He will grow up a bit, realize he wants kids, and a woman pushing 40 isn’t it.

So absurd. There are plenty of older women younger men couples. That seems to really bother older men in general and women who settled with husbands they hate. Half the heartthrob men in Hollywood chose to marry older women

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean he'll dump you eventually and marry someone his age.

This is what all the bitter old men tell themselves. Wishful thinking

I am sorry but it's true. Women when they date younger men somehow miraculously Believe that those younger men are more mature more willing to settle down than their bitter sometimes divorced older counterpart. Men are men. Even at 70 they will show signs of immaturity (from the woman's perspective)