• Nakoichi [they/them]M
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    4 days ago

    fr a 22 year old is still just a fuckin kid. I'm 40 this year and I would never ever consider dating a 22 year old. 30 maybe, but like how can you have anything in common with someone 20 years younger than you power dynamics aside. All that said 22 and 18 is a lot better than the relationships a lot of my girl friends as a teenager got into.

    Edit: okay it was a troop fuck him he deserved the beating even if it was for the wrong reasons.

    • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]
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      4 days ago

      but like how can you have anything in common with someone 20 years younger than you power dynamics aside

      20 is a lot but people with severe social disability or medical problems can easily lose a decade of life. I wouldn't try to date them but if i could manage to give college another shot i'd have more in common with those kids than i do with the people my age who have degrees and careers, housing, kids etc.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 days ago

      I've seen it work, people do fall in love with people very different from them.

      But I do think literally everything else needs to look ok, and regardless "still in undergrad" should be a giant red flag.

        • Mardoniush [she/her]
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          4 days ago

          If you're more than a few years out of undergrad, that is. My personal line where I'll start critiquing friends actions is that. My own is way, way closer to my own age (old)