• Tiger666@lemmy.ca
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    2 hours ago

    Im 54 male and the idea of dating someone my son’s age is akin to pedophilia to me.

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      47 minutes ago

      Same. I’m in my 40s. I have no kids, but i have friends and siblings with adult children. Nieces and nephews (the word niblings is fantastic) The idea of dating someone in their 20s is utterly repulsive. I’m just glad I’m taken. Dating has changed so much in the last two decades… those social media fuck systems frighten me.

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    A friend of mine married. At the wedding, her father (a widower) met the grooms mother (a widow). Some time later, they married each other. Some time later again, my friend and her husband divorced.

    Can you imagine this kind of awkward family meetings?

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      Okay, do you mind if i one up the awkward? I had some friends in high school start dating. Their parents were single. They met. About two, three years into the kids dating, the parents start dating. As soon as they graduated high school, the kids got married. A year later so did the parents.

      Both couples are still together but like, “yeah i’m married to my sister. she wasn’t my sister when we got married tho. damn mom and dad” is one hell of a story.

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    8 hours ago

    From what I’ve seen, the internet has a firm stance on what to do with step moms.

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      Almost child? The age gap with someone who’s presumably in their 50’s is weird as hell (especially when their own child is OLDER THAN THEM!!) but a 20 year old isnt a child.

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      My interpretation was that the intent is to punish the dad. When his (presumed) daughter dates someone his own age, he’ll realize how fucked up it is.

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          Obviously.

          If he did not have double standards then he wouldn’t care that his daughter is getting fucked in the bum hole by his father in-law.

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      9 hours ago

      Not primarily, but if my parent cheated on another parent with someone around my age: we scrapping regardless of who’s more to blame.

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        so dad’s dead so it’s not really an issue anymore, and as far as any of us know both he and mom were faithful to each other. but if my parents wanted to cheat that’s none of my business. if they chose to cheat with someone my age, that’s everybody’s business.

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    14 hours ago

    My cousin in law’s husband basically did this, except she looks very similar to his daughter.

    Incidentally, his daughter doesn’t talk to him anymore.