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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[–] 73 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Yes, obviously.

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

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  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 34 points 7 months 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.

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  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago

    You filthy pedophile!

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  • [–] 26 points 7 months 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

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Murder your partner, delete Facebook, go to the gym

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Lawyer up, delete Facebook, hit the gym

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    [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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)
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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Your best option is to fake your death

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 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!"

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months 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.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    (that's what reddit says)

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

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (4 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    You can even have a child be the abuser. One community I'm in had a case of a 13 year old lying about their age and manipulating MULTIPLE older teenagers. People are just complex.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    A barrel roll. Clearly.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

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

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months 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.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

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

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Do the opposite of whatever Reddit says

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months 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

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Panic because if 1 year is an exploit,

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

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

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

    The older you get the closer you are in age.

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