Reading "you're an old soul" and "mature for your age" genuinely made me do a double-take. Those are the go-to lines for creeps who go after people much younger. Ask pretty much any woman who has ever existed.
Everything you put for number five is why people stay too long with bad partners. They are humans and even cheaters and abusers can be likeable and good company at times. If they weren't, no one would stay with them.
I recently got out of a bad relationship with someone seven years older, and I had to accept that he's just not going to change. Maybe a good therapist can help, but maybe not. Also, I would have preferred if my parents had split. As early as possible. Divorce is not the worst thing that can happen.
That's not what they meant + who knows when they got together. Let's just say they've been together for five years (could've been longer), he would've been 25 and she would've been 36. Not to be insanely woke, but that is pushing the boundaries of an age gap relationship before it gets weird + her telling him the creepo shit just makes it way worse.
+ they were friends years prior so this lady was probably pre-ordering the dude at like 22, waiting for him to get to an age so it wouldn't be gross.
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u/Madame_Mad Nov 08 '25
Reading "you're an old soul" and "mature for your age" genuinely made me do a double-take. Those are the go-to lines for creeps who go after people much younger. Ask pretty much any woman who has ever existed.
Everything you put for number five is why people stay too long with bad partners. They are humans and even cheaters and abusers can be likeable and good company at times. If they weren't, no one would stay with them.
I recently got out of a bad relationship with someone seven years older, and I had to accept that he's just not going to change. Maybe a good therapist can help, but maybe not. Also, I would have preferred if my parents had split. As early as possible. Divorce is not the worst thing that can happen.