Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this entire thread. But if the presumption is that there are objections to some wealthy 54 year old man who takes good care of himself and is extremely successful as an actor/director/producer who happens to find a younger woman as a partner, the delusions are strong here.

Where is the 54 year old woman who adds value to Justin Theroux's life? There are lots of very interesting women in their 30s and 40s. What is a 54 year old women bringing here? Maybe with a little serendipity and charm they can click.

But generally, not happening.

I agree with this and also I think he wanted kids, which made a 54 year old woman not an option. It's hard to adopt at that age. Yes it's unfair that men have this option and women don't, but it's biology. It's not something Justin did. We know he and Aniston spent several years trying to have a baby and were not able to. For all we know, the reason their split was so amicable is because Jen decided she could make peace with not having kids and Justin couldn't, and they may have decided to split specifically so they could each pursue their divergent goals -- Jen to focus on her career and friendships and enjoy her life without kids, Justin to look for a partner to have kids with. Yes it's sad in some ways, but it seems like everyone involved is being an adult about it and Jen has even expressed that she is happy for him. All's well that ends well.

People here just want drama. They want this to be a betrayal of Aniston (even though by all accounts their relationship ended amicably), they want Nicole to be a gold digger, they want the baby to have been something she tricked him into, they want them to break up, etc.

Alternatively these are just people trying to have good lives, like anyone else.

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Anonymous wrote:My prediction: this is far from true love and she will trade up at an early opportunity.

You're seething with envy.

Be real. They've BOTH traded up before. One of them will, just a question of how many years it takes. 2? 5? 10 seems like a stretch, as far as them making it that long.

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Anonymous wrote:My prediction: this is far from true love and she will trade up at an early opportunity.

You're seething with envy.

Of someone who chooses to be with an old guy who looks rough and has a history of being a user and recent macking on teenage girls? Um no.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with the age gap hate? Whatever happened to "you do you"? Adults make their own decisions. Obviously these couples disagree with your subjective "yuck" take. I don't get the judgment.

It's instinctual. Old hags get super territorial about male peers going for younger, fertile women -- because what's left for them? Gross, much older men. All the age gap discourse is bitter old women. Confident happy women couldn't give two shits what other people do.

Nope. I may be an old hag, but I was desirable enough to score a young guy the first time around so my husband and I will be 50 when we’re at college parents weekends and not 75. And his sperm wasn’t limping along hanging on for dear life when we had babies.

Just….no. Not into age gaps and it’s a lose lose. He knows he can’t keep up, hence the terrible face work.

Jelly belly. Sperm aren't people.

Anonymous wrote:I haven't read this entire thread. But if the presumption is that there are objections to some wealthy 54 year old man who takes good care of himself and is extremely successful as an actor/director/producer who happens to find a younger woman as a partner, the delusions are strong here.

Where is the 54 year old woman who adds value to Justin Theroux's life? There are lots of very interesting women in their 30s and 40s. What is a 54 year old women bringing here? Maybe with a little serendipity and charm they can click.

But generally, not happening.

Sure, dating is one thing. He’s a serial dater/never been married and the consensus seems to be he probably should’ve stuck with that.

They now have a baby. And I have some bad news for him if he’s not going to be into 50-year-old women or questions their “value.” Time marches on and life comes at you fast. So the argument kind of falls apart if he constantly wants a younger woman. Shrug. It is what it is.

I haven't read this entire thread. But if the presumption is that there are objections to some wealthy 54 year old man who takes good care of himself and is extremely successful as an actor/director/producer who happens to find a younger woman as a partner, the delusions are strong here.

Where is the 54 year old woman who adds value to Justin Theroux's life? There are lots of very interesting women in their 30s and 40s. What is a 54 year old women bringing here? Maybe with a little serendipity and charm they can click.

But generally, not happening.

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Anonymous wrote:What's with the age gap hate? Whatever happened to "you do you"? Adults make their own decisions. Obviously these couples disagree with your subjective "yuck" take. I don't get the judgment.

It's instinctual. Old hags get super territorial about male peers going for younger, fertile women -- because what's left for them? Gross, much older men. All the age gap discourse is bitter old women. Confident happy women couldn't give two shits what other people do.

Nope. I may be an old hag, but I was desirable enough to score a young guy the first time around so my husband and I will be 50 when we’re at college parents weekends and not 75. And his sperm wasn’t limping along hanging on for dear life when we had babies.

Just….no. Not into age gaps and it’s a lose lose. He knows he can’t keep up, hence the terrible face work.

He looks rough.

Anonymous wrote:My prediction: this is far from true love and she will trade up at an early opportunity.

You're seething with envy.

Anonymous wrote:What's with the age gap hate? Whatever happened to "you do you"? Adults make their own decisions. Obviously these couples disagree with your subjective "yuck" take. I don't get the judgment.

It's instinctual. Old hags get super territorial about male peers going for younger, fertile women -- because what's left for them? Gross, much older men. All the age gap discourse is bitter old women. Confident happy women couldn't give two shits what other people do.

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Anonymous wrote:My prediction: this is far from true love and she will trade up at an early opportunity.

Honestly, I kind of love the table turning in that scenario. 20 years ago, people would be predicting that he'd ditch her as soon as she hit 35, to date younger women.

We'll see though. She just had a baby with him. The hormonal impulses around that are extremely strong, for both of them. I doubt the relationship will last forever, but I could see it being one of those Hollywood marriages that lasts 10-15 years and then they are friends afterwards. At which point she will be in her 40s with (I'm betting) two kids, and not necessarily in a position to "trade up", however you interpret that phrase.

If they didn't have a kid already, or if either of them had kids from a prior relationship, I could see one or both of them looking elsewhere. But they just glued themselves together with the baby, they'll probably have another in the next few years, he seems pretty enamored with being a dad (for now), they both have good support systems, neither seems to have a drug, alcohol, or other addiction problem (for now). I think they make it a decade and then split amicably around year 12.

Here is the thing - most women in their mid 40s with kids after a long-term relationship aren’t looking to trade up. Men like Justin love the arm candy, but women around that time of life are shifting into a new phase, less nurturing less wanting to look out for others. So that’s the thing - she won’t need a man. She might want to date and have short-term relationships of course but it’s not like she’ll be desperate to trade up. She’s she’ll have the money and the kids.

In ten years she'll still be young, and it may be sooner than that. I predict wealthy director or handsome actor closer in age.

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Anonymous wrote:David Bloom’s daughter.

Poor girl, daddy issues. Why else would you marry a guy nearly twice your age?

So every time a younger woman marries an older man, she automatically has “daddy issues”? So tiring.

Isn’t that the definition of daddy issues?

It’s like being annoyed that every time it snows, it’s cold outside. Then saying it’s tiring.

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Anonymous wrote:My prediction: this is far from true love and she will trade up at an early opportunity.

Honestly, I kind of love the table turning in that scenario. 20 years ago, people would be predicting that he'd ditch her as soon as she hit 35, to date younger women.

We'll see though. She just had a baby with him. The hormonal impulses around that are extremely strong, for both of them. I doubt the relationship will last forever, but I could see it being one of those Hollywood marriages that lasts 10-15 years and then they are friends afterwards. At which point she will be in her 40s with (I'm betting) two kids, and not necessarily in a position to "trade up", however you interpret that phrase.

If they didn't have a kid already, or if either of them had kids from a prior relationship, I could see one or both of them looking elsewhere. But they just glued themselves together with the baby, they'll probably have another in the next few years, he seems pretty enamored with being a dad (for now), they both have good support systems, neither seems to have a drug, alcohol, or other addiction problem (for now). I think they make it a decade and then split amicably around year 12.

Here is the thing - most women in their mid 40s with kids after a long-term relationship aren’t looking to trade up. Men like Justin love the arm candy, but women around that time of life are shifting into a new phase, less nurturing less wanting to look out for others. So that’s the thing - she won’t need a man. She might want to date and have short-term relationships of course but it’s not like she’ll be desperate to trade up. She’s she’ll have the money and the kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't actually care about their age gap and I think a lot of the criticism on this thread is over the top. Also I don't think Nicole was "out partying"? She went to a film premiere. Those things happen at like 4pm, it's a lot of standing around posing for photos and then some of those people watch the movie (many don't!) and some people have cocktails afterwards (many also don't!). It's like a workplace networking event, not a party. I have been to numerous and most are pretty boring and about as raucous as like the parents' weekend reception your freshman year of college. It's not like they went out clubbing.

That said, my first thought when I saw this photo was: oh that's "My much younger second wife just had my baby and I'm really proud of my sperm today" face. Like I chuckled because I have seen that look before. Men are such basic creatures.

He looks terrible. She looks like his gf before Jen.

She looks like she could be his daughter here. Absolutely disgusting.

Anonymous wrote:My prediction: this is far from true love and she will trade up at an early opportunity.

Honestly, I kind of love the table turning in that scenario. 20 years ago, people would be predicting that he'd ditch her as soon as she hit 35, to date younger women.

We'll see though. She just had a baby with him. The hormonal impulses around that are extremely strong, for both of them. I doubt the relationship will last forever, but I could see it being one of those Hollywood marriages that lasts 10-15 years and then they are friends afterwards. At which point she will be in her 40s with (I'm betting) two kids, and not necessarily in a position to "trade up", however you interpret that phrase.

If they didn't have a kid already, or if either of them had kids from a prior relationship, I could see one or both of them looking elsewhere. But they just glued themselves together with the baby, they'll probably have another in the next few years, he seems pretty enamored with being a dad (for now), they both have good support systems, neither seems to have a drug, alcohol, or other addiction problem (for now). I think they make it a decade and then split amicably around year 12.