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Re: Let's talk about age gaps
« Reply #90 on: June 28, 2025, 03:38:44 PM »
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  • I don't disagree what you are trying to say.  I just hope for a little more clarification.

    What do you mean when you say women are designed to be self-focused?  Women are designed to raise children, how is that self-focused?
    Self includes their children/family. 

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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #91 on: June 28, 2025, 04:38:56 PM »
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  • The single guy pushing forty who brags about having a non-commital five-year relationship with a much younger woman tossed a grenade and you all are pushing each other out of the way to see who can jump on it first.
    ??? Wasn't that Criox/WWCSG?


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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #92 on: June 28, 2025, 05:58:28 PM »
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  • Self includes their children/family.
    Thanks.  I would add friends.
    1 Corinthians: Chapter 13 "4 Charity is patient, is kind: charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; 5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil;"

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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #93 on: June 28, 2025, 07:01:42 PM »
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  • I pity the poor woman who agrees to marry you. If that ever happens.
    Or maybe I just have a wife who isnt a witch.

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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #94 on: Yesterday at 06:59:49 AM »
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  • Imagine how the world would be reacting if she was 17 and him 37. Same age gap, but she would just be a lot more attractive, her face isn't very good without makeup (she looks VERY old at 27) but she has large breasts (she claims to be natural but who knows if they are fake).


    I found this posts elsewhere on Biblical and Catholic age gaps.


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    Abraham was 10 years older than Sarah (Genesis 17:17), and after the death of Sarah at the age of 127, Abraham married Keturah and fathered six children with her (Genesis 21:5,23:1-2,25:1-2)
    Isaac was 40 when he married Rebekah, and 60 when Rebekah bore Esau and Jacob (Genesis 25:19-26)
    Esau was 40 when he married two Hittite women (Genesis 26:34-35) - although it should be noted that Esau is not held up as a Biblical role model
    Jacob was about 80 when he married Leah (various passages)
    Moses was over 40 when he fathered two sons (Acts 7:22-29)
    David was 30 when he began his reign as king of Israel, afterwards taking many wives (2 Samuel 5:4)
    Zechariah and Elizabeth were "getting on in years" when John the Baptist was born (Luke 1:5-7)

    And from some other, extra-Biblical sources, a similar story:

    According to Jєωιѕн midrash, Ruth was 40 and Boaz was 80 when they married
    According to apocryphal sources, Joseph was 40 when he took his first wife, who died when he was about 89 - after which point, he took as his second wife the Virgin Mary

    Honorable mention: even in modern times, a couple of Popes were born to fathers of advanced age:

    Pope St. Pius X was born in 1835 to Giovanni Battista Sarto, ~43, and Margherita Sanson, ~22 (source)
    Pope Benedict XVI was born in 1927 to Joseph Ratzinger, Sr.,50, and his wife Maria, 43
    Now personally I don't believe that Jєωιѕн source claiming Joseph was married once before but that is a completely different topic.


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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #95 on: Yesterday at 07:05:30 AM »
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  • Imagine how the world would be reacting if she was 17 and him 37. Same age gap, but she would just be a lot more attractive, her face isn't very good without makeup (she looks VERY old at 27) but she has large breasts (she claims to be natural but who knows if they are fake).


    I found this posts elsewhere on Biblical and Catholic age gaps.

    Now personally I don't believe that Jєωιѕн source claiming Joseph was married once before but that is a completely different topic.
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    Giovanni Battista was 41 years old when he married, the 13th February 1833, Margherita Sanson (1813-1894): the bride was only 20, and their marriage was consecrated by the chaplain Father Pier Paolo Pellizzari (S.Vito d’Asolo, 1807-Vallà, 1875).

    20 is still a few years younger than 22. If woman want a large family, and fathers want someone reliable for their daughters, older men are the best option. That's simply how it was always done when society didn't have "safety nets" (many of which are bad like encouraging fornication and fathering of bastards) as the man needed to be a stable member of society.

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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #96 on: Yesterday at 11:03:20 AM »
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  • Another source

    Giovanni Battista was 41 years old when he married, the 13th February 1833, Margherita Sanson (1813-1894): the bride was only 20, and their marriage was consecrated by the chaplain Father Pier Paolo Pellizzari (S.Vito d’Asolo, 1807-Vallà, 1875).

    20 is still a few years younger than 22. If woman want a large family, and fathers want someone reliable for their daughters, older men are the best option. That's simply how it was always done when society didn't have "safety nets" (many of which are bad like encouraging fornication and fathering of bastards) as the man needed to be a stable member of society.
    Then why don't you get off the internet and get your home/finances ready for your future bride and family?

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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #97 on: Yesterday at 12:09:48 PM »
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  • Then why don't you get off the internet and get your home/finances ready for your future bride and family?
    :facepalm:  More feminism/male-hating in action.  


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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #98 on: Yesterday at 02:18:43 PM »
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  • :facepalm:  More feminism/male-hating in action. 
    Not the author of "Then why don't you get off the internet and get your home/finances ready for your future bride and family?", but running low on patience with hyperfixation does not (=/=) equal "feminism/male-hating".

    Just food for thought: often, a particular criticism is not comprehensively valid or fair but it is relatively rare that it has absolutely zero merit.

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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #99 on: Yesterday at 02:32:12 PM »
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  • :fryingpan: :facepalm: Kind of tired of this thread. Every couple is different. Age gap/no age gap, it doesn’t really matter. We can all think of people for it was a problem and others for whom it wasn’t. 

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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #100 on: Yesterday at 04:44:26 PM »
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  • Not the author of "Then why don't you get off the internet and get your home/finances ready for your future bride and family?", but running low on patience with hyperfixation does not (=/=) equal "feminism/male-hating".

    Just food for thought: often, a particular criticism is not comprehensively valid or fair but it is relatively rare that it has absolutely zero merit.
    I guess OP is just bored/struggling with temptation while he "prepares" himself. Between work, eating and sleep there isn't too much for someone to do until they have their own house.


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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #101 on: Yesterday at 06:40:59 PM »
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  • Not the author of "Then why don't you get off the internet and get your home/finances ready for your future bride and family?", but running low on patience with hyperfixation does not (=/=) equal "feminism/male-hating".

    Just food for thought: often, a particular criticism is not comprehensively valid or fair but it is relatively rare that it has absolutely zero merit.
    The comment was an ad hominem and had nothing to do with the poster. 

    A criticism in real life may have merit, but one aimed at an anonymous poster?  :laugh1:
     

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    Re: Let's talk about age gaps
    « Reply #102 on: Yesterday at 06:45:42 PM »
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  • I guess OP is just bored/struggling with temptation while he "prepares" himself. Between work, eating and sleep there isn't too much for someone to do until they have their own house.
    One would hope that all of us fill any open slots with spiritual and corporal works of mercy -eh?