• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Y’all should hang with Filipinos. That gap is perfectly normal. My wife is freaked out to be 6-months older than me when all her friend’s husbands are 20+ years older, 40 in one case. She hates it to the point I can’t even joke about it at a party. :)

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          7 hours ago

          I guess. But at what point do societal expectations and pressure override consent in a fully formed and educated human? Is there such a point? Something about this makes me think there is.

          Then again, I also think that forcing children into a religion is abuse. So maybe this is just my skewed view that the influence of culture is often inappropriate.