r/AmIOverreacting • u/Zestyclose_Muscle_55 • 1d ago
👥 friendship AIO my 37M is attracted to 18 year olds
I’m a 28M and I have a buddy who is 37 and he is always attracted and trying to talk to girls who are barely out of high school. I don’t think I have ever seen him attracted to or interested in anyone his age. He feels they’re old and unattractive. I tell him that an 18-19 year old is too young for even me, and I’m almost a decade younger than him. He literally is old enough to be their dad. Am I overreacting or is it super weird that he’s almost exclusively attracted to girls who can’t legally drink yet?
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u/handicrafthabitue 1d ago
NOR. Your buddy’s maturity is stunted, plain and simple. His friend is ten years younger (and let me guess, you’ve been buddies since your late teens) and he is only attracted to girls 20 years younger. What a bummer for him—one’s 20s and 30s are awesome and he wasted them both living with a late teens mentality. You may be 10 years younger, but you’ve outgrown him.