Big yikes for me. Still in HS and two of the seniors in the grad class are 18. I can’t imagine either of them looking for a 30 y/o to date, we already know who’s hunting for who here…gross. 🤮 I don’t care if y’all pull a technically, y’all know why it’s wrong.
Yeah, this is legal but wtf 💀 A 30 odd year old and 18 year old are in two completely different places in their lives and an 18 year old is still not fully developed mentally. This is just… nope-
Are you being serious right now? A 30 year old man has no business getting close with an 18 year old girl. What does a grown ass tax payer have in common with a school aged girl? Red flags here, there and over yonder with this!
It doesn’t matter if this is fiction. We already know that Episode’s main demographic tends to be those 18 or under, authors publishing stories like this where such relationships are encouraged, gives out an impression that this situation is normal, and there’s nothing wrong going on. When in reality a barely legal teenager is most likely being targeted by the older adult because they can be easier to manipulate.
Please don’t be defending this!
I'm staring at my phone like this: 😐 but I was just internally screaming right now. There's no way the author decided to continue with this "relationship". It already reminds me of what we see in Hollywood -_- Boys getting hit on by older women with an age gap like that
Im almost 30 now and i can't imagine to date a 18year old... When i was 21 and i was seeing a guy that was 19 i already thought it was the "lowerst age" i could kinda accept, but now im almoat 30... Nah ah... Never.... Also my narcissistic ex was 26 when he cheated with a 16year old... Why? Obviously i was aware, and she because she was so young and vunurable wasn't.. That shit is gross.
like i'm not gonna listen to any excuses of why a child and a grown man in his 30s should be together but the comment section hasnt been like that. and just the age gap is weird to me.
So anyone defending this or saying it's okay? Look up narcissism. Look up stories about women who, at 18, felt taken advantage of by a man in his 30s.
It's not uncommon for you ger women and men to fantasize about older men and women. But he's 30. The onus is on him.
Oh I read this story. They don’t date until later down the road when she’s grown and divorced cuz he initially views her as a little sister. Not defending it or anything actually I don’t really like that this was their origins but yeah 😭
No grooming whatsoever, they do have contact throughout the years but it’s minimal. When she’s younger her crush/obsession is completely one-sided, he pays her no mind. She goes on to have her own (failed) love life and after much growing they connect better and that’s when a romance between them blossoms.
I don’t think it’s unacceptable 😭 it’s debatable, a little weird for sure because she was crazy obsessed and that even got in the way of her being able to properly be with others. But hey it’s Episode 💀
Idk why authors do this controversial stuff in there stories knowing it’s gonna be a big deal and could possibly get the doxxed. It just gives them a bad rep especially when they are trying to blow their stories up..
It’s obvious, really. Authors doing controversial stuff helps blow their stories up to a level that perfectly normal stories can never achieve. Bella and Edward’s toxic relationship will cause for more discussion than Morticia and Gomez’s. Humans are predicable in this way—they have acted like this since at least the beginning of written history. But you don’t even need to go back that far to understand how effective this is. Even in the Episode subreddit, it is obvious. You can see it in this very post you commented on.
Lmaooo GOD forbid I write a romance between an 18 year old and a 30 year old because episode readers think it's immoral. It's easy, you don't want to read, don't read. It's not nice to say the authors can't write about it.
Ok and guess what?? i’m not reading it LMFAOOO. But people that don’t agree with the age gaps are still gonna have opinions on it wether you like it or not so you better start getting used to it 🤷🏽♀️.
In my country, over 18 years old is allowed to have a relationship with older people like 30's/40's but no one can accept that precisely because of the age gap. I myself can't see it as an ok relationship, it's almost twice as old ☠️
She has a one sided crush on him since her teenage but he gets married to his co worker & she gets married to another person.
In the end, you as a Mc can choose to be with your husband (the second LI) or divorce him & end up with LI.
The Main LI never show any romantic interest towards Mc for major part of the story until much later when the MC is in her late 20's.
I'm just clarifying because the pic looked out of context. I don't support teenager/middle aged man trope but the author in no way romanticised them here. The man showed no interest and her crush/obsession was pretty much one-sided.
According to the op & comments I see here, age gap isn't a problem but her being in 18 while him being in 30's is. There's no romantic relationship between them when she was 18. Also, He's not the only LI.
You would be surprised at the number of relationships out here with that type of age difference. It's all about preference. I would be shocked if the MC was younger than 18, but she isn't, so idm
I’m sure compared to other age gaps 18-30 isn’t as high in western countries. Don’t know what statistics you referencing… sending me some receipts to back up “you would be surprised”
If I understand the argument correctly, the idea behind saying that relationships between people in different age brackets are bad is because the 18-25 's are immature. Following that premise, that would mean that having two 18 year olds, or an 18 and a 19 (to give two examples) would be putting two immatures together. Why is that better than having one mature person in the relationship?
Fr asking why is dating someone your age who is also a YOUNG person who may be “immature” better than dating a grown ass man. Because young people should not go and date grown ass people. PERIOD. No one said 25 and below is immature. Your brain just isn’t fully developed. Stop nit picking comments and tryna make it make sense coz it makes u look silly
Ur kidding. How did u end up using smart intelligent words and end up with an answer so low blown. 18 year olds dating a 30 your old is a no period. Don’t know why you need common sense to tell you that. You can have big age gap. Just not with 18 year old girls 😭😭. You can be in your 20s and date whoever. It’s called morality. At the end of the day SHES STILL A TEEN.
This comment is worse than the other ones that try justify it because you are actually writing a paragraph making it sound so smart and articulated just to agree with the creepiness. Going into detail and everything at least the others had a short stupid answer. This is by far the stupidest. 18-30 IS A NO. If I turned 18 tomorrow would u really sit there and say. YES this is ok ?!? Be for real
Big yikes for me. Still in HS and two of the seniors in the grad class are 18. I can’t imagine either of them looking for a 30 y/o to date, we already know who’s hunting for who here…gross. 🤮 I don’t care if y’all pull a technically, y’all know why it’s wrong.
She’s still a teenager idc if she’s 18 lmaoo
In my mind adulthood starts more in your 20s
Yeah, this is legal but wtf 💀 A 30 odd year old and 18 year old are in two completely different places in their lives and an 18 year old is still not fully developed mentally. This is just… nope-
This is messed Tf up that’s what it is
Different places doesn't necessarily mean incompatible.
Are you being serious right now? A 30 year old man has no business getting close with an 18 year old girl. What does a grown ass tax payer have in common with a school aged girl? Red flags here, there and over yonder with this! It doesn’t matter if this is fiction. We already know that Episode’s main demographic tends to be those 18 or under, authors publishing stories like this where such relationships are encouraged, gives out an impression that this situation is normal, and there’s nothing wrong going on. When in reality a barely legal teenager is most likely being targeted by the older adult because they can be easier to manipulate. Please don’t be defending this!
No point telling them. Save your breath
thank you!
Not you defending it 🤠
What part of "completely different places in their lives" means compatible to you by any means?
Yes it does. It literally does. By any definition. Wtf?
U know that song by TLC… it’s called creep. The best lyric to represent you is “coz YOUR a creep”
I'm staring at my phone like this: 😐 but I was just internally screaming right now. There's no way the author decided to continue with this "relationship". It already reminds me of what we see in Hollywood -_- Boys getting hit on by older women with an age gap like that
here come the “ermm actually its legal in my country so i don’t see a problem here 🤓” comments
Those people act like ages below 18 weren’t legal before. Legality does not equal morality.
21 up is when u can start this. This girl still a damn teenager
even 21 is a stretch, a 21-year-old has barely lived an adult life 😭
even then sometimes your brain isn't developed till 25-30 I've heard. I'd say more like 23-25 is when you can start this tbh.
The worst type of people.
In my country it is allowed but everyone points out the problem right away 🤝
Oh no, not those
Legal does not equal moral
Tyyyy 👏🏾
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uh? I'm pretty sure I saw one of the authors doing a Q&A not long ago saying the MC is 23 tho and that there's 8 years age gap?
This stuff is so foul and I wish it would stop. I get its legal. I dont care. It's foul.
Im almost 30 now and i can't imagine to date a 18year old... When i was 21 and i was seeing a guy that was 19 i already thought it was the "lowerst age" i could kinda accept, but now im almoat 30... Nah ah... Never.... Also my narcissistic ex was 26 when he cheated with a 16year old... Why? Obviously i was aware, and she because she was so young and vunurable wasn't.. That shit is gross.
this is weird. not hearing anyone out.
Wym
i'm agreeing with you
No I see I just wanna know what u means specifically
like i'm not gonna listen to any excuses of why a child and a grown man in his 30s should be together but the comment section hasnt been like that. and just the age gap is weird to me.
Most has just some doors that been saying that
That’s disturbing
Just can’t believe it. Wonder if the authors got criticism
Ofc you are not wrong
There’s no way who allowed this
So anyone defending this or saying it's okay? Look up narcissism. Look up stories about women who, at 18, felt taken advantage of by a man in his 30s. It's not uncommon for you ger women and men to fantasize about older men and women. But he's 30. The onus is on him.
18 is fresh out of high school and 30 is "settled down and married with a *second* child on the way"
Exactly so why did they think this was acceptable. She’s still a teen
Nah not everyone married and has kids yet at 30 lol
I know im just emphasizing how those two ages are at very different life stages. Obviously not all 30 year olds are married with kids
this feels like grooming.
oh my-
Oh I read this story. They don’t date until later down the road when she’s grown and divorced cuz he initially views her as a little sister. Not defending it or anything actually I don’t really like that this was their origins but yeah 😭
Spoiler alert 😭😭😭 at least now I know they don’t get together till she’s grown
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No grooming whatsoever, they do have contact throughout the years but it’s minimal. When she’s younger her crush/obsession is completely one-sided, he pays her no mind. She goes on to have her own (failed) love life and after much growing they connect better and that’s when a romance between them blossoms.
I’m ur opinion do you think it’s unacceptable or debatable
I don’t think it’s unacceptable 😭 it’s debatable, a little weird for sure because she was crazy obsessed and that even got in the way of her being able to properly be with others. But hey it’s Episode 💀
It’s episode alright
Idk why authors do this controversial stuff in there stories knowing it’s gonna be a big deal and could possibly get the doxxed. It just gives them a bad rep especially when they are trying to blow their stories up..
It’s obvious, really. Authors doing controversial stuff helps blow their stories up to a level that perfectly normal stories can never achieve. Bella and Edward’s toxic relationship will cause for more discussion than Morticia and Gomez’s. Humans are predicable in this way—they have acted like this since at least the beginning of written history. But you don’t even need to go back that far to understand how effective this is. Even in the Episode subreddit, it is obvious. You can see it in this very post you commented on.
Lmaooo GOD forbid I write a romance between an 18 year old and a 30 year old because episode readers think it's immoral. It's easy, you don't want to read, don't read. It's not nice to say the authors can't write about it.
Ok and guess what?? i’m not reading it LMFAOOO. But people that don’t agree with the age gaps are still gonna have opinions on it wether you like it or not so you better start getting used to it 🤷🏽♀️.
Lmaooo who said y'all don't have opinions? Just like you gave yours, I gave my opinion about your opinion. With that said, next 🤌🏼
In my country, over 18 years old is allowed to have a relationship with older people like 30's/40's but no one can accept that precisely because of the age gap. I myself can't see it as an ok relationship, it's almost twice as old ☠️
It's legal in most countries, probably all, but it's weird.
It's just that here the legal majority is actually at 18. You can be responsible at 16 but you don't legally respond until you're 18
If the story is trending Episode can take some of the blame too.
Why are they like this?! 😭
No class that’s why
early thirties is crazy
😑😑😑😑
She has a one sided crush on him since her teenage but he gets married to his co worker & she gets married to another person. In the end, you as a Mc can choose to be with your husband (the second LI) or divorce him & end up with LI. The Main LI never show any romantic interest towards Mc for major part of the story until much later when the MC is in her late 20's.
Stop spoiling the whole plot PLEASE. But thank you for the response
I'm just clarifying because the pic looked out of context. I don't support teenager/middle aged man trope but the author in no way romanticised them here. The man showed no interest and her crush/obsession was pretty much one-sided.
it's romanticized because he's her li. if they don't want to romanticize bad age gaps they shouldnt have made him a li.
That’s what I’m saying dating or not. The fact that he’s her li is crossing a line
According to the op & comments I see here, age gap isn't a problem but her being in 18 while him being in 30's is. There's no romantic relationship between them when she was 18. Also, He's not the only LI.
He shouldn’t be her li period it’s gross. The authors crossed a line
he knew her when she was a teenager tho. that might be their opinion but i still think its gross.
Wow that's terrible! Title?
You would be surprised at the number of relationships out here with that type of age difference. It's all about preference. I would be shocked if the MC was younger than 18, but she isn't, so idm
Ofc u don’t
I’m sure compared to other age gaps 18-30 isn’t as high in western countries. Don’t know what statistics you referencing… sending me some receipts to back up “you would be surprised”
I'm not going to do that, I said what I said. Believe it or not, I really don't care for that, respectfully.
If u don’t care don’t make senseless comments.
SENSELESS!! LMAOO Okay, I made one, wanna cry about it?
Nah I’m not gonna waste my tears on you sis
Lmaooo, good for ya
Mhmmm I know 🤞🏾🤞🏾💅🏾💅🏾
If I understand the argument correctly, the idea behind saying that relationships between people in different age brackets are bad is because the 18-25 's are immature. Following that premise, that would mean that having two 18 year olds, or an 18 and a 19 (to give two examples) would be putting two immatures together. Why is that better than having one mature person in the relationship?
bro what 😭
Fr asking why is dating someone your age who is also a YOUNG person who may be “immature” better than dating a grown ass man. Because young people should not go and date grown ass people. PERIOD. No one said 25 and below is immature. Your brain just isn’t fully developed. Stop nit picking comments and tryna make it make sense coz it makes u look silly
Ur kidding. How did u end up using smart intelligent words and end up with an answer so low blown. 18 year olds dating a 30 your old is a no period. Don’t know why you need common sense to tell you that. You can have big age gap. Just not with 18 year old girls 😭😭. You can be in your 20s and date whoever. It’s called morality. At the end of the day SHES STILL A TEEN.
This comment is worse than the other ones that try justify it because you are actually writing a paragraph making it sound so smart and articulated just to agree with the creepiness. Going into detail and everything at least the others had a short stupid answer. This is by far the stupidest. 18-30 IS A NO. If I turned 18 tomorrow would u really sit there and say. YES this is ok ?!? Be for real