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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] 41 points 5 days ago (3 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] 51 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

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

catgirl-disgust

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Someone needs to check in on the straights.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I thought it was from 58 shades of grey

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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,

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That comment section is exactly why Manhunt should be considered reading theory.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

manhattan It's November 14th, 2024 and Hexbear is suggesting I be hunted for my nuts again.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

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.

Is it still captivity if you never put together that you're being held captive?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago

😳

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