😂 please explain this one to me (hexbear.net)

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this tickles the fuck outta me, what is this from?!

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[-] GarfieldOfficial@hexbear.net 39 points 20 hours ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20240328004259/https://www.thecut.com/article/age-gap-relationships-marriage-younger-women-older-man.html

I misremembered it being from a movie- it’s from some New York publication

[-] nandos_house_of_glues@hexbear.net 45 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

My husband isn’t my partner. He’s my mentor, my lover, and, only in certain contexts, my friend.

catgirl-disgust

[-] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 5 points 11 hours ago

But when someone points out that this trend is broadly not great, on the grounds that your lover/spouse ought to be your peer, people dogpile him.

[-] JustSo@hexbear.net 30 points 17 hours ago

Someone needs to check in on the straights.

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 22 points 16 hours ago

I'm pretty sure we're beyond help at this point.

[-] dustbunnies@hexbear.net 7 points 13 hours ago

😳

that was quite a read! I really thought it was going to be a joke 🤦

[-] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 28 points 19 hours ago

I thought it was from 58 shades of grey

[-] Krem@hexbear.net 31 points 18 hours ago

close enough

I’ll never forget it, how he showed me around our first place like he was introducing me to myself: This is the wine you’ll drink, where you’ll keep your clothes, we vacation here, this is the other language we’ll speak, you’ll learn it, and I did. Adulthood seemed a series of exhausting obligations. But his logistics ran so smoothly that he simply tacked mine on. I moved into his flat, onto his level, drag and drop, cleaner thrice a week, bills automatic.

also comments are beautiful

As a single, older man, I found this essay both beautifully written and insightful. Thank-you!

and

This is an excellent essay, and it's shocking to see how hatefully it is derided and how many people are in denial of the reality the essay bravely takes on. In terms of mating,

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 17 points 16 hours ago

As someone who studied writing in undergrad and then went on to not write anything of note, I find the ubiquity of this sort of vapid personal essay depressing.