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[–] Bunnylux 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I'm 32 and my boyfriend is almost 50. Are you afraid of your husband dying? What are you planning on doing after he dies?

[–] betweenthewinds 3 points 2 hours ago

Not at the moment. He's extremely active both physically and mentally. We gym together 5 times a week, play sports, eat healthy, don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs, love things such as chess, puzzles, math, crosswords for working out the cognitive muscles... I honestly never thought about plans after his death. I'll deal with it when the time comes. I'll manage. Who knows, I might even die first. I had same age friends already die...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Would you say that your conversations and discussions are at eye level?

I just ask because i could imagine that it is very demanding for him not to give life advises all the time or take his experiences and project them to your situations. I guess many situations that you have to cope with - he already has a similar story , but still you want to be heard and not directly be given an advice? Also, you might still have the need to explore things yourself and he clearly already experienced a lot and might explain it to you instead of letting you explore by yourself?

I write that without having a bad view on him I just think of my parents being only 20/25 years older than me and not always being able to have that distant view... So I wonder how you deal with that generation gap in your relationship.

[–] betweenthewinds 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'd say so. I never felt condescension or anything like that in our communication. But admittedly I am very much a listener. I love listening to others, I'm not much of a talker myself. A person who can talk a lot and I just listen is very attractive to me. Plus I've always liked to surround myself with people more experienced / smarter than me. As my parents have always said: it's better to be the fool between intellectuals than the intellectual between fools. I like growing and evolving beside someone who has already gone through it. "Experiencing" things with other inexperienced people (colloquially know as growing together) has never been my thing. I like experiencing things with people who have already gone through it. I like stability, I like a rock. I don't like being with people similar to me, cause I feel like we always clash. I like being given advice and mentored sorta say. I like someone taking the lead. I don't believe age gaps relationships are for everyone, because as you said some people prefer being more "peers" and at the same level. I'm the opposite. Even in regards to friends.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Thanks :) that makes sense to me now. :)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why did you decide to do an AMA?

[–] betweenthewinds 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I discovered Lemmy and wanted to interact with some people but didn’t really have anything to post / comment on the main communities around here which seem very niche (technology, politics, Linux). So a Q&A seemed like the best way to go about it.

[–] 200ok 7 points 3 hours ago

Thank you for your service 🫡

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

How long have you been together, sorry if you answered elsewhere and I missed it?

[–] betweenthewinds 7 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] betweenthewinds 20 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

He’s a judge, he’s financially comfortable. But I’m a notary with my own practice, so I’m also financially comfortable on my own.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Is it particularly common for judges to have this kind of age difference? Do you think his profession is part of the attraction?

I've seen it before with a legal scholar and an international judge. I only met them together when he was maybe late 70s and having suffered a stroke, so the age difference was maybe more glaring than when they first met.

[–] betweenthewinds 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t know really, or more specifically I’m not sure. What I do know if you want to talk about judges (both women and men) is that a lot of them are married and in open relationships (or just straight up cheating). Similar with doctors. There’s a saying that people are only as loyal as their options, and in professions seen as “powerful”, you have many options, since for many people power is attractive. It was part of the attraction for me, but I’m also in the same field of work (legal).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Are you in an open relationship?

[–] betweenthewinds 3 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

How did your parents react meeting your now husband? And how did his parents react meeting you?

[–] betweenthewinds 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My parents didn’t have much of a reaction. They said if I like him that’s all, I’ll be the one to be with him not them. His parents are 82 & 87, they were excited for him to remarry. His son (38) was the one who reacted negatively, but he’s come around & now we’re amicable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 seconds ago

Whoa, his son is 7 years older than you??

What is that like? What sort of a conversation did you have with him?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Couldn't he do any better then getting with somebody that doesn't label their axes?

[–] betweenthewinds 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is some reference but I don’t get it… axes as in x-y axis on a graph or axes as in the things you use to chop wood?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] betweenthewinds 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Hahaha, thanks for the comic!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

You haven't answered the question!

[–] betweenthewinds 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh… I do label my axes. But even if I didn’t; why wait for the best when he could have me? hahaha.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Since you are both into law, do you believe justice exist outside of human society?

[–] betweenthewinds 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, interesting question. Yes, I do. Justice in human society is based on fairness and morality. I believe outside of human society the concept also exists, though different motives and all; and it definitely doesn’t take the exact same form as human justice. For example I think outside of human society the main motive is the survival of the species - very primal, very basic. Though these behaviors vary from species to species.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Would you agree justice has a core in safeguarding the innocents from harms coming from unethical actions outside of their control? If so, how does that possibly survives in the animal kingdom?

How is "survival of the fittest" justice and not the description of a status quo that would benefit from some changes, possibly in the form of a tribunal?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Deep in the thread, asking deep questions.

If you ask me, survival of the fittest is not justice. It is what emerges from a zero-sum game and is not the optimal strategy for the human race.