Settle a debate - Monica & Richard's relationship

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Cute couple with an emotional story or is it icky and weird?
What's your opinion on it when you watch Friends?

Anyone you thinks its ok has problem..she meet him a child...a young child.. sorry but richard should be locked up. Shes a child of his friend..a young child.

I don't think it was icky. When he first saw
Monica again he didn't recognise her and he was attracted to her as an adult.

Definitely think they were better suited than Monica and Chandler.

sorry but richard should be locked up. Shes a child of his friend..a young child.

U ok hun?

A 25 year old young child?

Both! He was her age (and knew her!) when she was a PRESCHOOLER! That is sick. But at the same time they do look good together, she's an NT adult and they had great chemistry. What was really, really wrong is her considering getting with his son later on.

Lol at 'young child'!

Definitely a bit inappropriate. Tom Selleck is gorgeous, and he seemed to care for Monica a lot. But she was in her late 20s, and he was 50-something. Old enough to be her dad.

Fast forward 20 years, and she would have been in her mid to late 40s, still pretty, fairly young/young looking, and in the prime of life, and he would have been around 70. She could have ended up being his carer!

Also, she wanted kids with him, (not long after they met,) and he had already been there, done that. Imagine if they'd had kids? By the time they were teenagers, he'd have been a pensioner!

No. Just no!

Age gap was icky. And it made it a lot worse that he'd known her as a young child.

Otherwise, they made a nice couple.
But I'm glad she ended up with Chandler

Richard was a good guy-but long term no

Richard was Monica's lobster. They should have ended up together.

The age gap wasn’t icky, but the fact that he’d known her since she was a little girl kind of was.

I didn’t like when he returned to give some drama to chandler proposing, it felt unnecessary and if he really was a mature adult who wanted what was best for Monica, he wouldn’t have acted like a child when someone else picked up a toy they’d stopped playing with ages ago

Oh and yes Monica and Richards son was definitely icky!

Anyone you thinks its ok has problem..she meet him a child...a young child.. sorry but richard should be locked up. Shes a child of his friend..a young child

What Friends were you watching, because it sure as hell wasn't the same one as everyone else as Monica was an adult when she was in a relationship with Richard.

Eughh can't get my head around that kind of age gap.. My fairly youthful dad is 23 yrs older than me and his same age friends are of no interest to me, my still fit and active 45yr old dh is 24 yrs older than ds girlfriend and I really can't imagine her being interested!!!

Its the fact they knew each other when she was a child rather than the actual age gap that feels problematic. On the bright side it felt like it just happened naturally and not like he was just into her because she was young (like those creepy old personal ads that were always like 'Man 55 seeks woman 25-40). They were a good fit but that gap and their expectations of life was probably always going to cause issues ultimately.

Young child? FFS. She was mid-twenties. I loved their relationship and wished they had stayed together. Nothing to do with my long-standing crush on Tom 😉. Monica & Chandler getting together seems more and more unrealistic the more I watch the show. But of course, the writers couldn’t have anyone other than the main six, which was why none of them had a long term relationship, unless like M & C it was within the group (R & R) or at the very end (Phoebe).

They did a lot of relationship jokes that I found weird; like when Ross was meeting Rachel’s dad (they had also known each other since childhood) and said something like he didn’t know what to say and she said “Just stay clear of ‘I’m the guy who’s doing your daughter’ and you’ll be fine.” Just weird, WTF would ANYONE say that??

The 'ick' bit is that he knew her from being a baby and watched her grow up. The issue is how long he'd been attracted to her. And then he hides his relationship from her parents/other friends, treating her like she's a dirty little secret, and this is all seen as cute. urgh.

Anyone you thinks its ok has problem..she meet him a child...a young child.. sorry but richard should be locked up. Shes a child of his friend..a young child

The fuck?!! Monica was a 25 year old woman when she started dating Richard.

Icky and weird.
He watched her grow up.

Sounds like Emma and Mr Knightley (Jane Austen), and that's a great work of literature.

Friends is not a great work of literature, but you know.

Loved the character. Tom Selleck is ace.

No "ick' from me (being her dad's mate and knowing her from birth aside!!) but he didn't want what she did??? He didn't want marriage and kids. So they were never suited.

It's all rather Ralph de Bricassart. Also not a great work of literature, but, y'know, Ricard Chamberlain

See in my head they didn't really know each other, he didn't recognise Monica when she catered for him so he can't of been that close to her parents ,maybe her parents had a lot of acquaintances and she just knew him vaguely as a child? A very close family friend would be the icky but a casual.friend that you saw at parties etc not so much ?

I think a lot of mid-20s women have a relationship with a sexy older man for a while. Tom Selleck was gorgeous in Friends and just hot but being a long term family friend he should have put himself off limits.

I’ve always thought Emma & Mr Knightley is icky also!

Yeah... I have two very young DD and the idea of one of my dhs friends hitting on them when they're young adults in 20 years time would make me very angry and uncomfortable.

But that's real life, as far as this storyline went it really didn't bother me.