Anonymous #3 14h

It’s not absurd, idk why you’re acting like it is

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Anonymous somuchthink 14h

I’m acting like this because it’s my opinion. No 23 year old should have anything in common with an 18 year old that just left highschool. Like I said the first time and will continue to say.

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Anonymous somuchthink 12h

When you’re as young as 18 and 23 the difference in maturity, life experience, and power that five years brings is too drastic to ever be okay

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Anonymous #7 12h

He literally groomed you while you were a minor if you’ve been together that long. He’s not treating you right, he’s taking advantage of your naivety

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Anonymous #8 12h

We’re literally engaged (or at least will be soon lol) Everyone’s so overblown on thinking age gaps are evil, it’s been normal for millennia

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Anonymous #7 11h

How did you meet a 29 year old in a romantic way at 16?🤨 Age gaps are not evil, but 29 year olds grooming 16 year olds usually is.

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Anonymous #7 11h

The problem is the inherent power imbalance. Either he’s way more mature than you and should know better or he is dangerously immature for someone his age

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Anonymous #7 11h

My parents have an age gap of 7 years and are a perfectly healthy couple. But they got together much later in life. You were literally a child who a fully adult man wanted to get with. That is the definition of predatory

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Anonymous #7 11h

That doesn’t matter? That just means he’s good at grooming. Thats a literal fucking crime if yall have actually been together as long as you say

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Anonymous #7 11h

You were literally groomed.

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Anonymous #6 11h

We met in church and the pastor gave us his blessing. He’s well known to be a good guy and is vetted by the elders of the church. I get that otherwise it would be pretty sus tho

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Anonymous #10 11h

No I wasn’t, he goes to church

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Anonymous #7 11h

Ohhhhh. Now I understand why we think it’s ok

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Anonymous #7 11h

It’s still goddamn sus wtf is wrong with all those people?

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Anonymous #7 11h

That doesn’t matter are you kidding me 😭

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Anonymous #7 11h

OP back me up, you get it

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Anonymous #7 11h

The church is the pinnacle of grooming

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Anonymous #7 11h

As someone who was GROOMED, you’re being/have been groomed and once again a 29 year old dating a 16 year old is 1. Illegal. 2. Disgusting. And 3. Embarrassing as fuck on his part and sad on yours

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Anonymous #9 11h

He waited till the age of consent in our state and I wouldn’t have had it any other way cause he knows what he’s doing waaaaayyyy more than any other guy my age I bet

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Anonymous #7 11h

The fact that you can’t understand why this is bad proves that you aren’t mature enough to date someone that much older than you

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Anonymous #7 11h

Well if he didn’t wait until marriage then he’s not a very good Christian and I don’t care. DISGUSTING

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Anonymous #8 11h

One day in their 30s it’ll click man

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Anonymous #7 11h

He literally only waited to build trust and get you to use this argument to defend him

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Anonymous #7 11h

You’ve gotta be trolling. If not, run. Your church condones, no, enables pedophilia. At least delay doing anything that involves a legal or financial commitment or a child until you’ve finished your degree and have more perspective on the world. Search for stories of women who’ve deconstructed your specific religion. A faith that can’t stand up to some discernment is useless. No harm in seeing what issues people see and thinking about it.

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Anonymous #8 11h

I don’t go to CATHOLIC church

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Anonymous #7 11h

That…. That doesn’t matter?!?! It’s all Christian denominations

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Anonymous #9 11h

It’s not illegal if my parents said ok which they did cause we all go to church together. He’s genuinely such a good caring guy, and tmi but he alwaaayysss has cared about my pleasure soooo much. Like yall have so many issues with men when I have the perfect one, so sorry yall don’t understand what I have

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Anonymous #7 11h

You’re an evangelical or LDS. I know. Go look for the stories of people who were in your shoes 10 years ago.

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Anonymous #9 11h

It does cause that’s where we met and talked for years before we started dating, I know him so well and even my parents knew him forever

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Anonymous #7 11h

YOU DONT HAVE A PERFECT ONE! No morally correct man would be with a literal child as a fully grown adult. You are too far gone and once again it doesn’t matter it’s disgusting

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Anonymous #9 11h

Ok as if anyone waits for marriage anymore let’s be so real

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Anonymous #7 11h

Not a very good Christian are we

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Anonymous #7 11h

It doesn’t matter what’s legal, it matters what’s moral, and it is reprehensible for an adult to groom a child

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Anonymous #9 11h

Yeah in my thirties I’ll understand the hellscape of men I didn’t have to churn through like all you jealous hussies

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Anonymous #7 11h

Ummm I have a fiancé so try again babe. An age appropriate one at that!

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Anonymous #9 11h

Wow that’s rude and bigoted I bet you don’t even go to church

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Anonymous #7 11h

I’m a lesbian. I’m not jealous. I’m a victim of pedophilia. I am not jealous. I am trying to save you from a horrific and unhealthy situation

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Anonymous #6 11h

I’m actually Baptist

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Anonymous #7 11h

Evangelical. Called it. I’m gonna block you now cause I don’t have the energy to help you understand. Good luck.

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Anonymous #7 11h

LMAO sure you are HAHA. Saying “no one waits for marriage anymore” followed by I’m Baptist?! As the granddaughter of a Baptist preacher, you are NOT following your teachings lmao

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Anonymous #6 11h

I understand that everyone here doesn’t have the context of actually knowing who he is or how wonderful and supportive my congregation is, so I forgive them for thinking how they do cause generally I would agree with them. I’m just saying in my case it worked out like a fairytale so it can happen!

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Anonymous #9 11h

You can judge but there’s other men like him out there if you also want an exceptional good man to take care of you in all the right ways. Just sayin 🧏‍♀️

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Anonymous #7 11h

No one needs to know who he is or what he’s like because there is nobody who is decent enough in other ways for grooming to be overlooked. I genuinely just feel bad for you. You’re a victim and you can’t even see it yet. You might never see it. That makes me so sad

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Anonymous #8 11h

It’s not grooming if we all go to church together. He didn’t take me away from any support systems or my people, and everyone sees how much he cares for me. I don’t need your options, my church knows us for who we are and I know other people just won’t understand. If I have a daughter I sure won’t be as judgmental as the rest of you

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Anonymous #7 11h

I’m not judging you, I’m scared for you

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Anonymous #7 11h

And now I’m scared for your potential daughter

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Anonymous #7 11h

Ew someone DMd me saying they’d kill to date a 16 year old. I wasn’t just some 16 year old I knew him before that too in a non sexual way

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Anonymous #7 11h

And none of that matters. When an adult dates a child, it is grooming. It doesn’t matter how caring they seem as a partner, it doesn’t matter who gives you their blessing, it doesn’t matter that you go to church together

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Anonymous #7 11h

Would you date a thirteen year old? When you were 16 would you have dated an 11 year old? Because that’s how much younger you are than him. And I assure you he views you the same way that you view people who are that much younger than you

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Anonymous #8 11h

Well… it makes me sad that you’re actually sad instead of just mad or judging me… I saw a table for a women’s shelter and SA/DV center that I liked what they do for women and saved a card. I’ll talk to them and I think they’d even agree that while yeah there’s red flags for *most* situations, mine is ok after I talk a lot and explain everything. Then I’ll come update yall with what they say so I can convince all of you too

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Anonymous #7 11h

I think you should do that

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Anonymous #8 11h

Ew thirteen year olds are literally barely teenagers. What you’re arguing makes no sense cause I’m like an old soul, he said he was only interested because I’m mature for my age and I am. I barely have anything in common with other teenagers and feel way older than I am so that argument doesn’t apply

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Anonymous #7 11h

“I’m like an old soul” IT LITERALLY DOESNT MATTER! You were a child and pretty much still are. It doesn’t matter how old you feel, it matters how old you ARE

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Anonymous #7 11h

Going to church doesn’t mean he didn’t groom you tf kind of logic is that.

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Anonymous #9 11h

Ugh those are misguided but well intentioned laws made to protect the general average of people and I’m mentally much older and more mature than other people at 16. So when everyone including my church and parents agree that it doesn’t have to apply to me, they know best

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Anonymous #7 11h

The way that you responded to the idea of dating a thirteen year old is how any rational, decent man would react to the thought of dating a 16 year old at 29

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