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Originally Posted by eskielover
I don't know why you are so concerned about what your brothers think....their thoughts or at least the one you quoted are NOT MAINSTREAM US beliefs.....they are their own personal way of looking at things.
My father was 27 years old, my mother was 19 when they got married & that was back in the 1940's during WWII. It's actually normal for older men to date & marry younger women in the US.....it's less acceptable for older women to date younger men than it is for older men to date & marry younger women......that has actually been the NORM for longer than I can ever remember....so I honestly don't know where you are getting your facts from other than what your brother says because he's NOT getting it from the normal society in the US.
Shoot, look at the marriage of George Cloony to Amal Alamuddin....he's 53 & she's 37......& no one even batted an eye at their age difference....so I'm not sure where you are getting your thinking from other than the comment that your brother made which IS NOT mainstream US society thinking.
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I disagree. With George and Amal, people don't bat an eye because that age difference is not stigmatized. I should point out that the stigma I am talking about only seems to apply when the woman is younger than a certain age. When it comes to women over 25 or so, there is really no stigma unless the guy is MUCH older than the woman. But when the woman is under 24 or 25, she is considered to be off limits to guys more than a few years older than her. As for your mother and father, things were VERY different back in the 1940s than they are today. Today, a 27 year old dating a 19 year old would be stigmatized. And this seems to be even more frowned upon by the younger generations.
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Originally Posted by eskielover
Sounds like you have more anger to what your life was like & that you didn't have the confidence to date when you were younger because of problems you were dealing with of being different in a way that others noticed.....
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Yes, others noticed that I was different and they decided to label me as a weirdo and force me into loneliness. Now they dare to stand up and tell me I am a weirdo again for wanting to date younger women? They sure do have some nerve...