When I worked at a restaurant we would occasionally play “America’s FAVORITE game show: DAUGHTER OR MISTRESS?”
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And if your in Alabama it could be both! If your in Appalachia it's always both!
As a former Alabama resident(It was a free house, and I am not a wise woman), that "could be" isn't needed. Same way it's not "they could be on meth", they're from Alabama, they're on meth.
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You're*
The irony...
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You mean "Dad or Daddy?"
Please don't tell me this. I already worry when I am out at places with my daughter without my wife.
🤣
There’s nothing wrong with being out with your daughter. The game is inspired by a 30 Rock scene where they say “I hope she’s his daughter” and then they kiss and it’s “I hope she’s his mistress!”
I went to my son’s back-to-school day once and brought my daughter with me (sophomore in high school at the time)
One of the teachers assumed out loud my daughter was the mother, and I don’t know how many other teachers assumed it without saying anything.
That was a deep and powerful cringe.
At dinner my husband and i often sit silently on our phones texting each other to play 'What's that relationship?'
In restaurants. Not so much at home. Though i do have a friend whose husband left her for his step sister.
Family gatherings must be fun
I'm reminded of a time I was on a business trip to visit a remote office, and I had dinner with a woman that I worked with. Both of us are married, to other people, who were not present. We must have given off the right vibes, though, because the server asked if we wanted separate checks at the end.
Or maybe they thought the date had gone REALLY badly.
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This would be my sister. She was 17 or so when she met the 40 y/o who she later had a kid with.
Gross
Yep. I’ve been nc for over a decade but I do wonder about how she is doing being his nurse these days.
Gross and sad
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See that's the problem with age differences.
If I tell you they are 23 years apart, you think "uhh".
If I tell you they are 17 and 40, you think "UHHHHH"
Lets see if it applies to me:
Me and her are 11 years apart.
Me and her are 23 and 34.
Hmm.
Well, yeah, of course that's less bad. You're both older and the difference is less
Ultimately a lot of it comes down to levels of maturity and the places ones are in their lives anyway. A 17 year old definitively can never be mature enough to have a healthy relationship with a 40 year old
Half the bigger age plus 7 for the younger.
40/2 + 7 = 27. 17 is ew
34/2 + 7 = 24. You're just okay, but should feel bad in bed
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Never assume anything. “Hi, I am … and you are?”
If needed, “… and what’s your relationship with him?”
Ask robotically and pretend to make a check mark on your clipboard, tada awkwardness averted
My go-to is to just forest introduce myself to the actual client, and then if they have anyone that I don’t already know, just ask something like “And who did you bring with you today?” So far no problems with that method.
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For some people it would be flattering because it means they look younger than their actual age.
I'm sure it gets tiring pretty quickly if the age gap is 15+ years.
Or look older than their actual age.
Man, everyone is jumping to the conclusion there's an age gap. Have none of you met anyone that doesn't look their age?
As an aside, my wife and I are 14 years apart. She's the older one. Started dating when I was 23 (she was 37, so the "rule" would have put her limit at 25.5) and married for nearly a decade now.
My ex wife is six months older than me but apparently looked much younger than me. When we were in our mid twenties we would regularly get odd looks, she’d get carded and I wouldn’t, etc.
The funniest time though was when we were at an “adult event”. A friend of mine who hadn’t met her yet saw us together, pulled me aside, and said, “Dude, she’s way too young for you and teenagers aren’t allowed here. Get her out of here before we have to kick you out for good.” We were both 28. 🤣🤣🤣
My partner and I are pretty regularly confused for mother and daughter, which is super weird because we're only 7 years apart. We're in similar life stages so we never thought about the age difference at all until someone mistook us in public. It was super awkward all around. Is 36 really that much more than 29?
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“Good morning Mr. Belichick, how are you feeling today?”
As a 60 year old man that dates women in their mid-30s (I want children), I feel this post-it note.
Respect for saying this out loud.
But also just a bit yikes, but credit for not going younger than 30s
Ehhh...it breaks the half-plus-7 rule (I'd call 37 'late 30s')...but it beats 20s. I'm only forty and I can barely relate to my 20-something BILs. I couldn't imagine dating someone in their 20s, and not just because I'm happily married. The culture gap is so real. I could relate to X so much more than Z.
Still...even mid-30s doesn't give much time to plant the seed before you have to worry about the first frost. You gotta sow while the soil is warm. Having your own kid is great and all but maybe look for a divorcee/widow with a toddler...
Also seems kinda cruel having a kid knowing you'll statistically die before they even graduate high school.
If he met someone today and had a kid by 61 by the time that kid graduates high school he'd be 79.
My dad was 52 when I was born. Getting real tired of developing chronic conditions that are associated with advanced paternal age, ngl.
Statistically his mean life expectancy is ~20 years left. Keep in mind as you get older your life expectancy goes up since you've already survived what killed many others younger
He'd be expected to die shortly after sending his kid off to college
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Same, I'm just getting to forty and the older I get the less dating someone half my age makes any kind of sense. I have patients that I have seen from their teens and they're now in their mid twenties. Thinking about them as anything other than kids just seems unnatural and morally decrepit.
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Props for the honesty
Wanting children in your 60s is selfish. Not only do you put them at much higher risk for birth defects, but you likely won't be around for most of their life
Things you can say on the internet but probably not to their face.
true but it is also true that the older the man the more likely it is he produces children with birth defects or genetic conditions
this has been historically blamed on women and it is now coming to light that old sperm isn't good
If you want kids at that age, the solution is simple: adopt. Adopting is just a good idea in general, though. There are already too many people. There's no good reason to make more.
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She's Macron's wife, not embalmed grandmother.
Dick van dykes wife is 50 years younger right? Wild.
He gets a pass because everyone is a lot younger than him lol
I'm 7 years older than my wife. I was 27 and she was 20 when we met, both freshly divorced too. Most definitely a rebound thing, even 40 years later. I keep waiting for her to catch up to me in age, but she's taking her sweet time about it.
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