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When people see an age gap, they tend to imagine there is something intrinsically unequal about it — that the older partner wants someone they can control and the younger partner has daddy issues or is just out for money.
The Age Gappers Lila Shapiro 2023
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Btw, when I was 24 I had a brief fling with a 30 year-old, and although the age gap was noticeable, it wasn’t “creepy” or “problematic”.
The age gap discourse is getting out of hand Auzune 2024
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In another writing group, he was told that a “real” romance requires the male and female leads to conform to certain rigid roles, down to genre conventions such as the “age gap” trope, which is assumed by default to mean an older man.
The secret lives of men who read romance books: ‘My life is full of love, so I’m drawn to them’ Amandas Ong 2026
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