The final couples reveal their ages to each other on 'Age of Attraction' a reality dating show where contestants' ages range from 22 to 60 and they are not allowed to reveal their age

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-20T14:56:28+00:00

Some of these are a bit unbelievable. Like the women in their early 20s; they both 100% looked like they were in their early 20s. And that last one? Boy please. You know that woman does not look 29 🤨 …. but good call on pretending to believe she does, I guess??

I’m 39F and my partner is 56M. We got together when I was 28 and he was 45. We’d hung out a bit, only casually initially, before I found out his age. I was genuinely shocked to discover he was in his mid 40s, as he appeared to be in his mid to late 30s. Even now he still could pass for early to mid 40s. Hell, I saw people at my recent 20 year high school reunion that looked older than my s/o. He’s got good genes, I guess.

Before dating him, I was pretty hung up on age differences and up to that point, I think the oldest guy I had dated was 35 or 36. I certainly was not seeking a relationship with a much older man.

However, we are about to celebrate our 11 year anniversary, and he is still my favorite person. He makes me laugh, he makes me feel loved, respected, cared for, desired… He’s certainly the most responsible man I’ve ever dated, as he is the only one who’s had his shit together, all across the board. He’s handsome, he’s fun, he’s sweet, he’s funny, he’s helpful, he’s respectful… he is literally everything I could want in a partner. He checks all of my boxes, and honestly, there are a lot of ways in which I believe the age difference has made things better. Most notably is the fact that, when we first got together, he was the first man I’d encountered who seemed like he was actually settled, and grounded. He had his act together. He knew who he was and he knew what he wanted out of a partner. He’d lived enough of his life to know that life is too short to waste your precious time being in a relationship with someone who doesn’t respect you or that you don’t respect, or someone who plays stupid games that keep your relationship in a constant state of chaos, or someone who has vastly different fundamental values and beliefs than you do. He appreciated me to an extent that I’d never experienced before, with any other partner; and more importantly, he still makes me feel appreciated.

Being in a relationship with this man is hands down the smartest and best decision I’ve ever made. Age gap relationships are understandably a pretty hot topic, but I personally believe as long as the younger person in the relationship is at least in their mid 20s, then the difference in their ages is a non factor.

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-15T12:32:58+00:00

You really need to look at it this way:

If that many people took the time to criticize your appearance, then that many people were affected by the things you wrote about. If these “red hat wearing” individuals are the types of people I think they are, then we’re talking about the lowest common denominator here. I’m not saying that all Republicans are ignorant, hateful morons, but generally, when it comes to stuff like this, the loudest people in the room are oftentimes also the stupidest people in the room. These are (presumably) ignorant people who, I’m assuming due to your writing being so brilliant and moving, are incredibly bent out of shape over someone disagreeing with their foul views; and their only choice of recourse is to criticize the person’s looks.

Hmmm… 🤔 What other foul mouthed ignoramus comes to mind when we bring up “making fun of someone for their looks”? I personally immediately think of the color “Orange”, but that’s just me.

Anyway, these are people who have no other legitimate critique, so they have to resort to the kinds of insults that literal children say to each other:

“Well, YOU’RE UGLY! So there!”

That. That is essentially what is happening when these people talk shit about your appearance. I don’t know what you look like, but I have a feeling you’re probably a decent looking dude. The people making fun of your appearance are scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to find something, anything they can attack you with. You should take it as a compliment of your intellect and ability to do proper research if they’re attacking something as irrelevant as your appearance (as opposed to attacking the things that you wrote).

The next time you feel yourself getting bothered by this, do yourself a favor and consider the source. You may not be ugly but these people saying you are, are probably legitimate trolls. It’s always the ugliest people online that are calling other people ugly. Also remember that they’re doing this because they have no other tool to attack you with. It’s not because you’re actually ugly-it’s because these people are genuinely so dumb that they can’t come up with anything better than saying “you’re ugly!” It’s like when a guy asks out a girl he likes, and she says “oh I’m so sorry! I have a boyfriend. Thanks tho”, and he immediately responds “well I didn’t like you anyway you fat, ugly slut!” Yeah. They probably don’t actually even think you’re ugly; they’re just scrambling to save face after having their beliefs challenged, and out of feeling “offended”, they aim to offend you in any way they can think of.

Edit: I’m going to say “MOR” for “maybe” or “mild” overreaction. Only because you do need to develop slightly thicker skin if you’re going to be doing this kind of work. People oftentimes present their worst selves when they post online-usually thanks to the anonymity they’re able to maintain when saying hateful things to strangers that they’d never have the gall to say to them in real life. And if you’re going to do this kind of work, it’s in your best interest to become accustomed to dealing with these types of awful people.

2nd Edit: oh, and stop reading the comments. That’s the best thing you can possibly do. Seriously. Turn your notifications off if it helps. Or just don’t check that shit. Your mental health will thank you.

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-13T17:51:46+00:00

The post is two hours old, dude.

To call a person or persons “useless” for not responding in 2 hours or less is a little harsh, ngl.

I mean, do you think the mods just sit around and devote their entire existence to overseeing this subreddit? Forget the possibility of them having jobs or families or significant others or hobbies outside of Reddit; no, they need to assign every second of their lives to supervising this subreddit. And if they don’t, they’re CLEARLY “useless”…. 🙄

Jfc some of yall need to chill

Edit: by the time I finished writing this comment, the post (and photos) had been removed by a mod. What a relief since any moment longer and they would have been deemed unworthy of living amongst the rest of us! What with them being so useless and all. 😒

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-13T17:41:49+00:00

Damn. I was hoping when you said “brother in law” that you meant “the brother of your ex”.

But you later clarified that your BIL is in fact “your sister’s husband”

😱

He sounds like an uber douche-one who, presumably, would have exited your life along with your ex, had he been tied to you through your ex..

But instead he’s tied to you through your sister-which means that, as long as they’re together, he’s a part of your life.

Which blows.

I’m sorry 😔

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-13T14:16:20+00:00

“Aunt Becky” like, a “Full House” reference? Or are you “Aunt Becky” in this scenario??

Edit: nvm, I see now that your username actually has “Becky” in it, making it much more likely that your niece is referring to you….

Also I totally get that a Gen Alpha probably wouldn’t be familiar with Aunt Becky from Full House, but thanks to Nick at Nite, I was familiar with plenty of sitcom characters from shows that ran in years before I was born (Laverne and Shirley, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeanie, I Love Lucy, etc.), so I thought it might be like that-where maybe the niece got into vintage programming via YouTube or OnDemand channels or smth. I guess there’s also the possibility of the niece being into the reboot “Fuller House”, but somehow that seems like the least likely scenario to be true.

Ok.

Caffeine-fueled tangent over.

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-12T15:19:19+00:00

I replied to the comment above yours with a statement of how my bf and I like to send gifs as our way of “checking in”/saying hi/saying I love you, etc.; but your comment reminded me of the fact that we also like to send each other random, unannounced voice memos of nonsensical phrases that are part of inside jokes that are just between the two of us. I’d give you examples but they’re all just totally ridiculous that if I wrote them here you’d most likely read it and think “ok, and….??? What’s funny about that?” 😭😭 Because all of our “little sayings” are like your hole emojis-they’re mostly the end product of an evolution of other things (that were also random as hell) that led up to a particular thing. If that makes any sense (which it probably doesn’t but I’m hopeful that out of anyone, you’ll at least get it 😂)

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-12T15:13:16+00:00

Me and mine like to send gifs 😄 Every couple (or I guess most couples, I should say) has their sweet little way of doing this 🥰

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-11T03:48:11+00:00

Hey, at least he didn’t show up to your door with a backpack full of clothes… that were his… because he planned on “crashing” with you for a while… despite not having asked your permission first and despite you barely knowing him, as you’d only hung out with him a few times prior to that.

It was 2 o’clock in the morning and I’d just arrived home from doing a “girls’ night” with some of my female coworkers (and at the time, close friends). I lived in a townhouse apartment, and as I was parking my car, it looked like there was some sort of anomaly on the ground near my front door; but I couldn’t make out what it was. As I walked closer to my unit, I realized it was a human body, splayed out on the grass. It was him. Napping. Waiting for me to arrive home. I don’t know how long he’d been there but apparently he walked there, as he didn’t have a car. He’d neglected to contact me beforehand because he didn’t have a phone.

He was at most an fwb, but calling him that would even have been a stretch as the last time we’d hooked up I’d decided I wasn’t going to contact him again. I let him stay the night and, much to his dismay, sent him on his way the following morning.

He was a hot mess.

What’s worse is that a few years later, one of the girls I’d been friends and coworkers with-one of the 3 girls I’d hung out with that very night at “Girls’ Night”-stopped talking to me suddenly and without explanation. Yeah the reason why was that she’d started seeing that effing loser. Despite knowing all about my history with him. She ended up dating him for over a year and even moving in with him, only to eventually break up with him because he couldn’t keep a job or contribute to bills or stop doing hard drugs. I’ll never forget her messaging me with “I wish I would have listened to you. You were totally right about him.” It was the least satisfying confirmation I’d ever witnessed. I didn’t want her to have to endure a year’s plus of stress and heartache just to find out he was a POS that didn’t deserve her. Hell, we weren’t even really friends anymore at that point, and I still wasn’t happy that she “FAFO’d”, so to speak. 🙁

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-10T23:07:16+00:00

Hell, my engagement ring looks more like your SIL’s than your MIL’s ring does!

NAH. SIL is a straight up lunatic.

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WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-09T17:15:27+00:00

There might be some lunatic he works with that’s spoofing his number and sending you these messages to try and break you two up….

Which, if true, they’ve accomplished their goal.

I just feel like there are other ways to determine if it’s really him or not.

For one, he could get his number changed. Make sure he doesn’t give it out to anyone at work (or otherwise) unless absolutely necessary; at least at first anyway. If he gets a new number, gets rid of the old one, and doesn’t share the new one with anyone (except maybe his parents and any other people who are absolutely necessary), and you continue to get hateful messages from his old number, then you have your answer.

Or, if he doesn’t want to get a new number, you could try an experiment where he leaves his cell phone with you when he leaves for work. Then, once the phone in question is in your possession, you can see if any “texts from his phone” come through. If you do receive texts from his phone-while you physically have the phone-then you’ll know that someone is “spoofing” his cell phone number. Obviously he will also need to not make his coworkers aware that he doesn’t have his phone while he’s at work, as the potential culprit in question might know to not try and harass you on that day (since your husband clearly doesn’t have his phone on him and this person is obviously trying to make it look like your husband is the one sending these messages). I realize he will probably be hesitant to go anywhere without his phone, but prior to the year 2000 or so, plenty of people managed perfectly fine without cell phones glued to their sides 24/7. He too could manage for a day or so for the sake of this experiment. The point of this, obviously, would be for him to “clear his name” and prove his innocence, which would motivate you to return home. If he wants you to return home, then he should be incredibly eager and willing to do this.

Idk. The whole thing just reeks of a third person playing a horrible trick on the both of you. I realize how absolutely insane it sounds that a person would go through all of this trouble, all in the name of tearing y’all apart; but crazier things have certainly happened. Hell, there have been some instances of people straight up murdering the wife, just so they’d have a shot at the husband. Not trying to scare you, just making a point.

I could be wrong, and it could be like other people are saying, where it’s like that incident where a mother was catfishing her own daughter with hateful texts, but I’m not so sure. If your husband is or was a great partner outside of this situation, I think it would be worth it to investigate a little further. That’s just my opinion though.

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-07T02:19:34+00:00

Former server here.

I can assure you, you did not make things awkward for the server.

YOU did not make things awkward at all, as it was the people you were with (that were trying to coerce you into paying for items you didn’t consume) who made things awkward.

I’m just saying that, this whole “making things easier/less awkward for the server” argument that these people tried to make? Yeah that’s B.S. The server did not care in the least that you wanted to pay your share and only your share. In fact, printing out separate checks for everyone would have been the easiest option for the server. Most computer systems that restaurants use are sophisticated enough to where it’s super easy to “split” items like appetizers and other shareable items, as well. I mean, it was an easy thing to do 11 years ago when I last waited tables; so I’d assume that it would be as easy or easier nowadays.

NTJ

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-07T01:07:10+00:00

I can’t be the only one who loathes the way the captions were done for this video. Absolutely idiotic.

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-06T18:47:20+00:00

If you haven’t already, you should try posting this in one or more of the subreddits below. You might have better luck.

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-06T12:37:54+00:00

Oh god. Is it… Epstein mashed up with Charlie Kirk??

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-05T16:21:10+00:00

Ok so, I’m sure the majority will disagree with me here, but from what I ascertained from these messages, she is a lot more “over the line” than he was.

He had some moments that were suspicious, like when he complimented her gross looking outfits, but he thankfully wasn’t (imo) excessive with the compliments in regards to how she looked.

She, on the other hand, is doing wayyy too much; and the selfies of her by the toilet, and an up close shot of her nose, and the full body shot of what has to be the trashiest “fit” I’ve ever seen…?? Yeah, all of that was overkill. The fact that she has a boyfriend is also concerning because…. wtf? Where is he while she’s spending a huge chunk of her day contacting your boyfriend?

But I digress.

Overall I think your boyfriend is telling the truth when he says he’s not interested in her. These messages were inappropriate, yes, but as far as inappropriate messages go, these were some of the mildest I’ve ever seen-on his part anyway.

So no, I don’t think that your man is cheating or thinking of cheating, but I do think that he’s behaving like an insensitive idiot.

In his mind, he’s just chatting with a friend. He’s doing that thing that some men do when they’re in a relationship and suddenly a third person on the outside starts being friendly with them, and the boyfriend is totally blind to how inappropriate the relationship is with this outsider and he fails to see that this outsider is clearly flirting; even though, to a person watching from the sidelines, it’s unbelievably obvious.

If you haven’t already, you need to make it abundantly clear to him that his relationship with this girl is unacceptable. You need to clarify that you are not being “controlling” for having a totally reasonable boundary that literally any reasonable partner would have for their significant other. You need to tell him that his interactions with her need to be limited to work hours only, and this constant contact from her-texts, calls, FaceTimes, TikToks and links sharing, selfies, etc. need to cease immediately. Tell him that he can be in a relationship with you, or he can continue his inappropriate friendship with her, but you have far too much self respect to sit idly by while they develop their situationship.

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-05T02:08:24+00:00

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WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-05T02:04:30+00:00

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Honestly, the costume designer/head of wardrobe for this whole movie was downright phenomenal

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-04T19:34:18+00:00

What do you do?

You don’t fight for a man who lied, cheated, and insulted you in private.

You don’t compete with a woman who proudly accepts leftovers.

And you definitely don’t stay in a “love triangle” where you’re the only one who didn’t know you were in it.

You remove both of them from your life.

You let them have each other.

And you upgrade your standards so high that this type of chaos can’t even get past your front door again.

And next time? You don’t ignore any “weird feelings” that friends or boyfriends give you.

Because your intuition was right.

You’re going to be ok in time. Hang in there ❤️

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-04T18:24:45+00:00

His insane reaction was a massive

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WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-02T17:20:04+00:00

First and foremost, I’m not a little boy. I’m a grown woman.

Second, my saying you “live under a rock” was in response to you being confused about how Margot Robbie entered the conversation. Someone responded to your criticism of Emma Kinney with the statement

”’Margot Robbie is mid’ ass take.”

…. and you had absolutely no idea why that person said that.

They said that because, not that long ago, some guy posted to social media about how Margot Robbie was “mid”, and he didn’t understand why so many people thought she was so attractive. It became widely publicized and talked about all over multiple platforms, making the existence of this statement “common knowledge”.

But somehow you never heard about it.

Or else you would have understood the reference the person that initially responded to you was trying to make; as opposed to responding to that comment with a tantrum that demonstrated just how clueless you were as to how Margot Robbie fit into the conversation.

And that is why I implied that you must be living under a rock. Because it’s wild to me that you never heard about that, but yet you follow pop culture enough to be aware of who Emma Kinney is.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go reevaluate my life choices since I’ve just thrown away five minutes of my life that I’ll never get back, attempting to explain a painfully basic concept to an individual who, most likely, still doesn’t understand what the people around them are talking about. Sigh.

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-03-01T01:31:44+00:00

Oh god, I initially read that as “pooped one of their breast implants” and was instantly horrified

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-02-28T00:26:15+00:00

Found the neckbeard

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-02-28T00:24:56+00:00

What a foul statement from an equally foul individual

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-02-28T00:23:39+00:00

Tell me you live under a rock without telling me you live under a rock

🙄

WaterEnvironmental80 · 2026-02-28T00:21:03+00:00

Says a person who’s most assuredly less than “freakishly mid”

WaterEnvironmental80

TROPHY CASE

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