I hope you are all going to tell me I am definitely being unreasonable and/or overreacting/being overprotective.
My child is 21 and dating a nearly 40 year old. They are keeping this a secret as it will impact adversely his (boyfriends) work. I did a bit of digging as I wasn’t happy about the age gap…primarily because my child is quite inexperienced, and the need to keep it on the lowdown. This is a first relationship scenario for my wee one other than some very casual dating with a friend that didn’t work out about two years ago.
There seems to be a bit of a history of younger partners. One was just 17 when he was 34-35ish.
I don’t know if it’s just me and I shouldn’t be so squeamish. I do appreciate age differences aren’t a biggie but I always thought that it was more appropriate for older people and not very young adults and grown men. Throw in a level of innocence and inexperience and it just seems a bit grim.
Tell me I am being a ninny?
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Child relationship is ‘secret’ and there is a big age gap...should I care?
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Elbad · 08/11/2019 10:51
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