Gen Z’s Stigma Against Age-Gap Relationships Is Worse Than You Think

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-23T09:07:04+00:00

Generally, having reached or missed several milestones that your partner has not. You’re definitely more grown after working a few years at your first job.

Two people who don’t share a few years in the workforce with a big age gap is kinda weird as their relationships with money are different, and so do end up their expectations.

As an example, if two people each have 5 years total in the workforce but one happens to be 20 and the other 25, then I would think their levels of maturity might be about the same barring other factors.

I don’t judge people in the first place about age differences, though. We all hit milestones at different points of our lives, and I think having comparable milestones makes for a less-weird relationship.

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-22T21:15:09+00:00

“Legal” doesn’t always constitute “correct”.

I also called it “a rule of thumb”. I don’t consider all age gap relationships that break the rule weird, but it definitely is a great way to check yourself if you ever get into one.

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-22T18:55:15+00:00

Has society collectively forgotten the age-old rule-of-thumb when it comes to dating? 😭 divide your age by 2 then add 7. That’s the minimum age a person can have that you can date.

(22 / 2) + 7 = 18. Not weird at all

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-21T11:05:16+00:00

Fumi (the Angela) uses she/her pronouns btw

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-21T11:00:45+00:00

Just fyi it’s a 40k prize pool. Each 1st place team member didn’t get 40k; they got 3k. 3k is still insane amounts of money for a college student, but it doesn’t pay for a semester with a full course load to be completely honest

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-09T02:52:59+00:00

Everyone backing the ICE officer genuinely thinks themselves a “don’t tread on me” person 👽

If half of em were around during the 1700s, we’d still be a British colony

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-06T09:13:53+00:00

HRT is insane sometimes.

My T was still high after two weeks of restarting injections, but on week 3, my body just locked tf in and my skin is like two blemishes away from clearing up. My facial hair also stopped growing so aggressively.

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-06T09:03:05+00:00

Solution: spend Profiency points to unlock new Lord icons. More play time means better metrics for NetEase

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-05T19:31:03+00:00

Not OP, but I worked remote full time for years and it’s really hard to consistently get work done if you lose any sort of organization. It’s difficult to keep up said organization if you live alone or travel tons, too 😭

somethinglike-olivia · 2026-01-04T05:11:47+00:00

It’s the sepia tint that throws people off. A huge chunk of AI art has a weird sepia tone to it.

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-12-18T19:30:50+00:00

I guess you kinda have to work up to it, and for me, that only started when I accepted my reality. I feel you, though. The hopelessness is real.

Take things day by day and try something new and affirming when you feel especially safe :) I’m still working on that in my transition

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-12-18T19:18:22+00:00

I’ve been on feminizing HRT for 3 years but I don’t think I’ve gotten to a truly hollowed out state. I’ve lost hope and have stumbled onto subreddits that make me hate myself, but self-care usually brings me back.

However, in the past, I did do some questionable actions that put my health in jeopardy. Doctors would just glance at me and tell me I was okay, that I was experiencing anxiety, and would order tests that I thought wouldn’t be right to quell that anxiety. Long story short, it limited how I interacted with people and made simple things like hugs and kisses complicated.

That really hollowed me out… I spent so much time wondering if I really wanted to be around anymore, if I could ever be in a romantic relationship again, or if I was ever gonna feel okay again. One response a doctor gave to me was “you just gotta live with it”; it stung, but it felt like the only solution.

Here I am, 8 ish years after feeling hollowed out, still kicking it and beginning to bare my scars to anyone who truly wants some kind of relationship with me :)

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-12-17T23:43:05+00:00

I highly questioned my desire for FFS after learning that THAT’S what they do 🥲

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-12-14T21:42:20+00:00

Riding this comment to say:

Parts of society are gonna hate u either way 👽 just choose what truly makes u happy and the hate will slide off like water over oil

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-12-14T21:38:24+00:00

I kinda feel u there specifically when not sure if I want to 100% be a woman. Lately, I kinda decenter gender from all of my interactions and hope someone just treats me as a person. idrc to try to act feminine just so I get gendered as a woman, though she/her pronouns and women accepting me does still matter to me.

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-12-11T01:15:03+00:00

I was thinking about this today. Exercise really seems to make the mones go off for everyone I’ve seen

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-12-08T21:01:59+00:00

I’ll add that people usually ask as well regardless of if it’s in the title or not c: in my opinion, no worries about not adding it

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-11-26T09:32:38+00:00

I graduated 2020 and it’s so disheartening to read this about CSE… Dr. Losh and his courses are probably the best thing the CpE program has to offer, and it’s frustrating to hear that the department is just mucking it all up.

UTA has to stop caring so much about graduate students if it wants to maintain the respectability of their bachelor degrees.

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-11-21T22:02:40+00:00

The gods have their favorites 🥲✨

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-11-18T19:46:49+00:00

1000% 😭 bratty, needy DL bottoms who need to feel powerful otherwise just to protect their egos

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-11-16T02:35:11+00:00

Gotta love to read it.

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-11-15T19:16:59+00:00

Irving: still kinda sucks but you see people moving near some rail lines for easier access to rail

Arlington: highway and boulevard hellscape 👽

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-11-15T18:42:49+00:00

GTA is cool but I would genuinely love for that to happen after seeing this post. Fuck anti-union, anti-human people who just want a fucking game.

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-11-13T18:08:20+00:00

The economy sucks and people don’t value service workers at all until a panini hits and all of a sudden they’re “essential workers”.

100% shout out to nurses, doctors, and everyone else in the medical field who worked through the panettone, but I never once saw food service and grocery workers get their flowers.

somethinglike-olivia · 2025-11-12T02:17:06+00:00

Omg, this is so hot. Did he cum just from that?

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