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I just finished watching Age of Attraction and I'm pretty sure the moral of the show is that age gap relationships are unethical (that's what reddit says)

I don't remember asking for an ethical crisis for my birthday πŸ™„

What should I do?

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[–] GuyIncognito@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

well there you fucking have it, you let this epstein stuff go unpunished and then you have people bragging about their age gap relationship with a 28 year old child

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 11 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Murder your partner, delete Facebook, go to the gym

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Murder Facebook, send your partner to the gym, delete yourself

[–] username123@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Seems legit

[–] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 hours ago

Stop listening to other people and listen to your partner because really their opinion is the only one that matters.

If you're both adults of your full mental facilities, than everyone else can stfu.

[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

All these other shit-for-brains got it wrong. Here's what you do:

  1. Find a woman your own age, pervert
  2. Have her go through EXTENSIVE cosmetic surgery to become a replica of your current wife
  3. Have newbie secretly follow your wife until she learns every habit, nuance, and personality trait
  4. I'll leave the uglier details of this step to your own imagination
  5. Pretend newbie has been your appropriately aged wife the whole time
  6. Send us some feet pics of those juicy things you've got tucked away in your socks (this step is optional)
[–] username123@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago
  1. Document and submit work as application to partner with Nathsn Fielder
[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 47 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Yes, obviously.

You need to stop aging for a year so they can catch up

[–] TherapyGary@anarchist.nexus 25 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Can I just break up with her til Thursday?

Edit: that's when she turns 29

[–] Haquer@lemmy.today 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, I'm 4 months older than my girlfriend, I guess I need to stop aging for a bit as well.

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 11 points 13 hours ago

That's disgusting. Do you even realize that she wasn't even born yet when you were 3 months old? Gross...

[–] Asafum@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago

It's ok you don't actually have to do anything. Reddit has already told her to break up with you, file a police report, kill your pets, marry you just to divorce you, and then tell all your friends how horrible you are and that they should never talk to you again.

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

This whole age gap policing has gone waaaay too far.

Exploitation, abuse, induced dependency, these are all bad things. Abusers can go after people who are too old to think straight or too young to know better, but a moral panic about a 50 year old dating a 40 year old is ridiculous.

This is a high school mentality in the real world.

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

A band once said highschool never ends. I think they were onto something.

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 1 points 3 hours ago

Bowling For Soup either made it or covered it. Hard to tell with punk tbh

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Some people never move beyond highschool. It is where they peaked and they either get a job that lets them return to working there, or they try to create the clicks and environment elsewhere.

[–] MasterNerd@lemmy.zip 8 points 12 hours ago

Your best option is to fake your death

[–] bacon_saber@fedia.io 16 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Lawyer up, delete Facebook, hit the gym

[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

Delete book, gym up the lawyer, hit face.

[–] brynden_rivers_esq@lemmy.ca 10 points 13 hours ago

I'm so used to seeing the joke version of this that I was confused by the traditional version lol

Delete the gym, hit a lawyer, facebook up.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I used to date a woman who's a month older than me. She used to joke about robbing the cradle. Too bad I'm not as clever as the Futurama writers, or I would've insisted instead that I was robbing the grave.

[–] Macchi_the_Slime@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

My partner is a week shy of being exactly 5 years older than me, I'm 35, she's 40. Most of the time we're basically the same person and that 5 year gap is basically nothing. We were both in pretty comparable stages in our lives when we got together ten years ago, there wasn't an imbalanced power dynamic from her being older than me.

But sometimes something comes up where that gap falls in just the right spot that something foundational to her childhood I was just too young for and for a brief second she cringes real hard and is just like "God dammit you're just a baby!"

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

A 5 year gap isn't as bad as you get older. But when I was 23 I had an 18 year old girlfriend for a month before I ended things, because she still had the maturity level of a child and it made me feel really gross.

It only lasted so long because I also happened to be her first (this was before my big head overrode my little head). She was the first (and only) virgin I had been with so I didn't know how to extract myself from the relationship without crushing her.

5 years later I met my wife who's also 5 years younger, but our life experiences were way more similar.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I was occasionally on the other side of that and really hated it. I’m four years older than my ex, but also came from a more conservative (small c) town. Usually we were at the same stage of life but ….. Sometimes that four years was a generation difference, which was very uncomfortable

Yep that's the thing. Most of the time the gap feels like nothing, others it feels like an entire generational difference and it hits her with massive psychic damage because for that moment I'm a little baby.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 17 points 14 hours ago
[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 19 points 15 hours ago

You filthy pedophile!

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 9 points 13 hours ago

(that's what reddit says)

If you’re looking to reddit for ethical advice, you’re already beyond help. Sorry.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I really gotta start reading what community before I read the post.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 5 points 13 hours ago

Nah, better to get in the habit of checking the community after the wtf post as it is funnier that way.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 4 points 13 hours ago

My reply would have been the same regardless lol

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah man, you gotta break up. Track down the person who was born at the exact same time down to the planck time. It's the only way to make it equal

[–] CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 14 points 15 hours ago

But time is relative, so that person should also be someone you’re related to.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 hours ago

What should I do?

Wait until it's night out, then take a long walk to think about your life. At least an hour or two, really wander around a bit, sit under a tree for a bit (just check for spiders first). Consider yourself as captain of earth, riding this big ball of mud and water and cheese and birds and Roblox across the solar system, which in turn is falling around the edges of the milky way Galaxy, which is falling towards the great attractor chased by the larger Andromeda Galaxy. And beyond that billions of light years of more galaxies and black holes and more muddy dirt balls falling through spacetime. From that cosmic perspective it's really easy to hear the sea lions and horses barking across the bay as you flour pixies from surreal bakery baskets.

A lot of well-meaning commenters are missing the obvious solution here: Freeze yourself for one year.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Do the opposite of whatever Reddit says

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

He’s a man, Reddit will just ignore his post altogether.

[–] EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Everyone knows that the rule is you take your age subtract 1, then add .5 and that's who you can date. Anything more than that .5 is grounds for termination. You know what you need to do.

[–] Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] EvilFonzy@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, I guess. If you're going to half ass it.

That's a serious issue! But you can work around it using asynchronous communication: you may not see her/him/them anymore, and only communicate using letters. Send them a letter using the US Postal Service, and by the time of arrives, age will have inevitably closed the age gap.

note: this is not US centric advice, using the US postal service will add sufficient delay from/to anywhere in the world.

[–] danhab99@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago

If it helps 27/28 is greater than 17/18.

The older you get the closer you are in age.

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 5 points 14 hours ago

Its only exploitation if you don't pay them in exchange for their goods and services.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 6 points 15 hours ago

A barrel roll. Clearly.

[–] ductTapedWindow@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

YTA, set her free. She deserves to explore herself and rack up a body count in the triple digits before being owned by a man

[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago
[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Panic because if 1 year is an exploit,

Im not saying shit about the age gap between me and my girlfriend.

[–] garth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Is she consenting and into it? Some people are freaks, and that's okay.

[–] ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

My godparents had an almost 20 year difference and they loved each other very much (first marriage for both too, and only death could separate them). I understand the fear that men will trick and exploit a young and naive lady, but that's simply not the case every time. 🀷

And just FYI, my wife and I are the same age, lol.

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

2 decennia of difference, why not. It's not nothing but it can work. But 12 whole months? 12? That's just disgusting!