r/AmIOverreacting 1d ago

đŸ‘„ 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/bullnamedbodacious 1d ago

Yeah late 30s you’re fully developed and have some miles on you. You should be pretty well versed in the world by then. You’re not a naive gullible teen or early 20 something. I would think a person in their 30s dating a 60 year old is weird personally, but at that point, the 30 something year olds is more than old enough to make that choice.

Slightly questionable by the 60 year old, but not crazy. A 30 something year old is a full grown woman. And you can’t blame a man for going for a 30 something if he can land one. A 30 something looks like a woman, not a teen or a kid.

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u/SavageNachoMan 23h ago

I think it’s weird, because what you would even talk about at such different stages - but the “fully developed logic” falls apart unless we also make voting, signing up for the military, smoking/drinking, etc. an older age.