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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-04-08 07:00 pm

[ SECRET POST #3017 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3017 ⌋

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Re: May-December relationships

[personal profile] elialshadowpine 2015-04-09 09:17 am (UTC)(link)
Repeatedly! My first relationship was with someone 30yrs older than me. Ironically, that was actually the relationship I had the least age-related issues in. My gods, did we have issues, but age was, weirdly, not one of them. Before my dad decided to turn into (okay, who am I kidding? became more of) an abusive asshole, R and I did a lot of talking, and as I was coming out of an extremely isolated childhood home, he did not want me to move directly from my parents' home to living with a romantic partner. He wanted me to have the experience of either finishing my 4yr degree at a nearby school, or getting work and living on my own and being independent for awhile. He was really concerned about how things were going to work out when that turned out to not be feasible (it was move or end up in inpatient psychiatric care), but it turned out to be the least of our issues.

My next relationship was with a married couple about 12yrs older than me, and while I don't think they intended to do so, they very much took advantage of the age discrepancy. I was their "unicorn" (the Hot Bi Babe) and it turned out that my girlfriend V was having major jealousy issues she was hiding (despite that I repeatedly told her that while I loved S, I was head over for her, she basically had very low self-esteem, and was convinced her husband of 10+yrs was going to leave her (and their kids!) for me. That didn't end well.

Let's see. The ex I'm in the process of divorcing is 7yrs older than me, but emotionally has remained the same age that they were when I met them, and from what other people who have known them since they were a teen have said, they haven't really done much maturing at all. I have another ex who is 20yrs older, and he tried to take advantage of it... I, however, was wise to his tricks and said fuck that. My fiance is 14yrs older, which he thinks is a huge difference and I'm like, eh. My fiancee is about 3yrs older than me and I think she's the closest relationship I've ever had in age. In the reverse, my domme is about 8yrs younger than me.

Age is one of those things where it's mostly irrelevant to me, though I'd be uncomfortable being involved with anyone under 20ish because I would personally be worried about life experience differentials. But that's more because worrying like that would be anxiety-triggering for me.