| Op, is your daughter's guy at least super rich? Also, I had a college roommate who was a sugar baby. She grew up affluent, so she was accustomed to the best, but her parents wanted her to learn to work, so they didn't give her any spending money in college. None of those siutationships lasted, though. |
| I’d try to arrange for a can’t-miss family vacation, internship, study abroad, mission trip, or something else to get her out of town from him. Take her somewhere young, preferably with a time zone change that makes it hard for her to call him. Maybe a beach vacation near a college town? Don’t bring him up at all. Same at Christmas. Family is thinking of going to Hawaii for two weeks and she needs to come. (Again, the time difference will make it harder for them to text.) Plan board games, movie nights, hot chocolate, etc. make it magical on your budget. |
TBH Trump's spokesperson is exactly who I thought about when reading OP. |
How sexist and judgmental of you. Why is that? Jealousy? |
That's common feeling when women lose their youthful looks. It makes that green eyed monster come out. |
No. It’s not. |
History and human relations says yes it is. You are either out of touch or pushing an agenda. |
History? When women had agency in selecting their marriage partners? Ah, right. Hundreds of years of being married off to improve family wealth doesn’t actually mean that healthy, well-adjusted women routinely want partners 20 years older than them. |
Yes, past and present. Majority of women worldwide marry a man several years her senior. It's basic evolutionary science to do so, as women mature faster and also age faster, than men. Also for stability. Here in the USA many women have been duped into thinking they should marry their own age or younger men, but that's one of the big reasons for the increasing divorce rates. |
I agree "not all dating needs to be going somewhere long term". But there is no reason for a 25 yo to date a 50yo. They are in such different places....and if the guy is not, then he's nothing but trouble and needs to grow up. And yes, it is strange when your dad/parent marries someone the same age as you or really just wants to date someone the age of his own kdis |
10 years I can see...especially since many 22 yo guys are still immature. But much more than that when you are in your 20s seems strange |
DP: No normal 50 yo is seriously interested in a 25 yo. They likely have nothing in common. And if they do, it means the 50 yo guy is very immature |
My husband and I are the same age and we have been married for 40 years. We know at least five other couples from our college who also have been married 40 years or longer. We all feel feel that being a similar age has been a big advantage in creating strong bonds as a married couple. |
Sure, it increases as one ages. A 10 year age gap for a girl in her mid 20s is very normal. A 20 year age gap when a woman is in her mid 40s is very normal. 15 year age gap with the man older, is the overall sweet spot, as a 30 year old woman looks about the same as a 45 year old man, and a 50 year old woman about the same as a 65 year old man, etc. |
Thats’s exactly what we (family) think … |