How would you feel if your dad was dating someone younger than you?

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Question is in the title. Would you disown him?

Of course it's disgusting, your dad would be with her for her body and sex reasons. I wouldn't be able to talk to him and I absolutely loved my dad too bits.

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Haven’t seen my dad for 50 years. If my mum passed away before my stepdad, I would wish him future happiness with whoever made him happy, whatever their age. Loneliness in older age is awful.

Wouldn't bother me truthfully.. but then my parents are only 16 years older than me. I have friends all older than me and dated older than my parents.. if they're happy, what difference does it make to you/your life? How are you actually impacted?

I wouldn't like it tbh, I suspect most people would feel the same.
It just feels wrong and personally as a 50 year old woman I can't imagine wanting to date my sons friends or someone their age ( 22-23) not that they'd be interested in me🤣
It just feels a bit ick if I'm honest.
So for fathers to date someone their daughters age also feels off.
Even if father is 60 and daughter is 30.
With a generation size age gap you have different life experiences and are at different stages of your life. Always seems a bit of an imbalance.
Usually a young beautiful woman, perhaps a bit vulnerable, looking for security and an older wealthy powerful man looking for the status of having young attractive partner.

Do you find bodies and sex disgusting in general or only with regard to your father? Therapy might be a good idea.

So your dh is a sugar daddy. Not the same as s normal dating relationship. His choice, he doesn't need your approval.

@Liorae What on earth are you on about? 😂 Think you're the one who needs therapy..

I love bodies sexually. Of men my age.

I wouldn't disown him, but I'd be sad he's like so, so many other gross men.

Exactly.. Someone I know who I was close to isn't with someone young but wouldn't say no to it and it's totally changed how I see him.. also agrees with prostitution but that's another story.
Total loss of respect for him and don't want to be around him.

It would be a huge ick for me.

I wouldn't disown my dad, but I don't think I'd ever accept her.

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So long as she wasn’t a minor and it was a fully consensual relationship between two adults, I wouldn’t care.

I wonder if those PPs for whom this is a theoretical question might listen to those PPs whose fathers do/have done this before they judge us.

Tbf if she made my dad happy and fulfilled his life I'd be very happy for them both xx

To love and be loved is the most magical feeling after all xx

I agree with this. I'm 51 and if my dad (69) found someone of my age, I wouldn't think there was anything remotely wrong with it. He and my mum are still happily married, but if either she died or they split up, I'd be glad for him, assuming my sisters and I had vetted her and had deemed her ok as a person.

my Dad is doing this. Why on earth would I disown him ??
im happy he’s found happiness after watching his wife die of cancer 8 years ago.
he deserves his happiness

No.It's his life.Who is anyone to judge if both parties are happy.
Everyone has their own path in life.

I would be OK, as long as the woman is not younger than my youngest sister

I wouldn't disown, but would feel differently depending on the circumstances.

65 year old father with 45 year old daughter, dating someone in their 40s - wouldn't bat an eyelid

65 year old father with a 30 year old daughter, dating someone in their late 20s - it would feel off to me

@Icequeen01

I think your Dad sounds like he was taking advantage, like the saying goes nothing like an old fool,

Sorry he got stung like that,

I think Age gap between them, sounds Bonkers to me,

I think it depends what age gap difference is,

I am not against Age gap relationship,

But it does depend on the age difference disparity if it was a massive difference, that's totally different to a few years or 10 years say 30 yr age , dating 45

He most certainly was. She wasn't English and during my dad's last days she had moved two members of her family, who had come from her home country, into my dad's home. You couldn't make it up!

Probably wouldn't disown but it's a bit icky isn't it?

I wouldn't disown him but I'd be disgusted and judge him differently. I'm 30 and my dad is 60 so yeah, the thought of him with a 29 year old is creepy.

My mum married someone only 10 years older than me. I'll never understand it.