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Cradle robbing is a pastime as old as time. We’re all well aware of celebrities who date way below the appropriate age range. But it’s still always rather jarring when you see those arrangements—and yes, they’re arrangements, don’t try to tell me that’s real love—in real life. You feel like you’re bumping up against some severe emotional…unrest? Trauma? Disturbances? I’ve sat at a restaurant before next to what was clearly one of these arrangements: a woman in her perhaps mid twenties was swooning over a man in his perhaps late seventies. Her affection seemed feigned—like she was acting—and the man sat almost ignoring her, eating his dinner. Based on the conversation, the two clearly had nothing in common or barely knew one another. They obviously had some understanding by which she provided, er, companionship, and he provided…who knows what. The whole thing made me a bit uneasy and then, the even more disturbing thing began to happen: people mistake my father and I for being in this kind of arrangement.
I’m actually too young to be his daughter
They talk about men dating women young enough to be their daughter but get this: I’m too young to be my dad’s daughter. I’m in my thirties and he’s in his late seventies. He had me when he was pushing 50. So that makes it even more disturbing that people think I could be his girlfriend. But they do.
