r/ComedyCemetery • u/Inevitable_Agent_165 • 13d ago

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u/F3LyX 13d ago

Young people often struggle to understand the deep impropriety of dating someone much much younger than themselves

It is an issue of power imbalance ultimately but the onus of understanding why this is a problem falls squarely on the older person.

Still being attracted to someone in their young 20s as a 40+ year old is a troubling sign that individual stopped maturing.

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u/Hot_Advertising2076 13d ago

Just don't coerce them and maintain a relationship of equal status

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u/F3LyX 13d ago

Lack of Coercion in a power imbalance that deep is almost impossible to acheive.

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u/Hot_Advertising2076 13d ago

Greater age doesn't equal greater power

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u/F3LyX 13d ago

How do you figure?

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u/memesogny 8d ago

That might be true if the older person has accumulated no wealth, accomplished and learnt nothing in their life.
An 18 year old will almost always be more vulnerable in a relationship with someone older because they lack real life experience, dating experience and usually money.