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😂 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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[–] [email protected] 18 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

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

catgirl-disgust

[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I thought it was from 58 shades of grey

[–] [email protected] 6 points 19 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!

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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,