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Does anyone else find it wrong to date someone significantly younger than you?

Anonymous in /c/relationship_advice

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I want to preface this by saying I’ve only recently started to have problems with this. Born and raised in Miami, it’s pretty common to see a couple with a ten-twenty year age gap. Never a problem.<br><br>27f, I recently learned my SO’s dad (mid 50s) is seeing someone half his age. No one knows how long it’s been going on but from the looks of it, they’re maybe 2-3 years in. My SO (28m) and his siblings (30s-40s) were shocked to say the least. His siblings are angry and don’t approve but I’m just confused.<br><br>Their relationship started when my SO’s dad hired the girl (early 20s) as his assistant. They were very professional and it seemed innocent enough. According to my SO’s dad, it was months before he realized he wanted to be with her. At that point, he let her go (so they wouldn’t have a power dynamic) and asked her out. She said yes and that’s that.<br><br>I don’t know much about their relationship except that from the outside, it seems very normal. My SO’s dad and his new gf actually live together but the only time his siblings and their spouses have met her is at my SO’s and my house.<br><br>The reason I’m here is that my opinion on the situation is changing and I don’t know if I have changed or if the situation changed. My SO’s dad and gf didn’t start spending time with the family outside of maybe twice or three times a year. At first, we’d see how happy my SO’s dad was to have his new significant other around and how she was like a kid enjoying herself. It’s been a couple years now and everyone can tell the gf is much more comfortable. My SO’s dad and his siblings and spouses talk about her more in front of the rest of us and they’ve even tried to convince her to share more about her life.<br><br>I think maybe a year ago, we learned the gf has a child (maybe 4 or 5). We barely learned anything about the kid and the gf never mentioned any other kids and from the looks of it, there is only one. But a couple weeks ago, the gf shared a quick story about her and her child vacationing with her friends after she graduated college. My SO’s dad and gf are maybe 2-3 years in at most and the child is 4 or 5, but that child was born before they met. <br><br>I just thought, how much did this girl even know about life when she met my SO’s dad? Why would my SO’s dad date a girl in her early 20s, who just had a kid, to be in a relationship? She was barely an adult and barely a mother. This is just my speculation but I just can’t help but think that my SO’s dad took advantage of her youth and innocence. She was a young mother, fresh out of college, looking for a job to provide for her child and she was hired by this mature, wealthy man to work in a high paying job. I don’t think my SO’s dad and his gf’s relationship is alike to the average American man and woman with a 20 year age gap. This is more like a french film.

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