How do I tell my daughter's partner to back off?

[Anonymous]

DH and I have a 6 year age gap. Married over 20 years.

[Anonymous]

I was 24 dating 31. Married 26 years now 2 kids. You crazy

[Anonymous]

OP, ask your daughter’s boyfriend on a date. An evening listening to your idiocy will chase him away.

[Anonymous]

Just celebrated 22 years together, 19 years difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I married someone seven years older than I am. I'd been on my own since I was 15 and by the time I was 23, had my life together and couldn't relate to guys my age a year out of college and trying to figure it out.

I can tell you for a fact that that's not the case with my daughter. She is also a year out of college.

[Anonymous]

No way this is a real post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A 23 year-old is either a senior or already graduated from college. The idea that her mother has any say in who she dates is hilarious.

But, go ahead and try OP, and get back to this thread on how it goes.

Yes, I'm definitely going to listen to someone who believes that 18 plus 3 is 23.

Can you actually not imagine that there might be some kids who are 23 when graduating college?

Gap years, mental health leave, COVID campus closures, 5 year plan--I know people in all those situations.

PP was being more inclusive in that answer while lacking specific info in the OP, which was a good idea.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just celebrated 22 years together, 19 years difference.

Yikes!

[Anonymous]

Crazy/troll. 6 years is fine age difference. Going strong with that difference for 21 years now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I married someone seven years older than I am. I'd been on my own since I was 15 and by the time I was 23, had my life together and couldn't relate to guys my age a year out of college and trying to figure it out.

I can tell you for a fact that that's not the case with my daughter. She is also a year out of college.

I met my DH 6 months at of college. At work. We are still together 23 years later.

Why are you concerned? 6 years is a normal age gap. Did your daughter go away to school? Is she living on her own now? Why are you infantilizing her?

[Anonymous]

When I started dating my husband I was 23 and he was 33. We have now been together almost 18 years. It's fine, no need to call paw patrol.

[Anonymous]

OP stay out of it. Your daughter is smart. 23 year old guys are like teenagers, yuck, so immature.

[Anonymous]

DH and I celebrated our 20th anniversary last year. He’s 9 years older than me and we married when I was 22. Thank god my parents did not decide they needed to squash it. He’s an amazing husband.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP stay out of it. Your daughter is smart. 23 year old guys are like teenagers, yuck, so immature.

23 year olds, period, are like what teenagers used to be, and that goes for both genders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A 23 year-old is either a senior or already graduated from college. The idea that her mother has any say in who she dates is hilarious.

But, go ahead and try OP, and get back to this thread on how it goes.

Yes, I'm definitely going to listen to someone who believes that 18 plus 3 is 23.

Can you actually not imagine that there might be some kids who are 23 when graduating college?

Gap years, mental health leave, COVID campus closures, 5 year plan--I know people in all those situations.

PP was being more inclusive in that answer while lacking specific info in the OP, which was a good idea.

Someone taking 5 years to graduate would be 22, not 23, upon graduation.