How to handle daughter dating older guy (Long)

I have control over who is going to have contact with my daughters. Believe that shit.

I’ll let you all get back to your usual pedophile apologetics.

Likewise, you back to your Fritzl dungeon. Is it “10 Minutes of Sunlight” day, or is that next month?

I don’t get the reference.

unless you lock your daughters in a basement prison cell, you cannot stop them, at 17, from moving out, supporting themselves, and taking out a restraining order. Ergo, you do not in fact, control who your daughters see. Only what they are willing do sacrifice to see them.

Yes I can. They can’t legally leave until they’re 18. I’ll have them arrested as runaways.

I can also seriously fuck up the slimeballs who try to prey on them. Nothing my daughters can do about that.

They’ll have better sense than that anyway.

I see a lot of “I haven’t spoken to my father in decades” in their future.

I see a lot of not being molested in their future.

My friends and I always subscribed to the ‘Half Your Age Plus 7’ rule. As long as there was that; you wouldn’t get shit on for dating girls way too young.

So 25/2=13+7=20. That’s the youngest a guy should date at 25, in my opinion.

8 years is a much longer time at 25 and 17 than it is at 35 and 27.

I was also your daughter once upon a time. When I was 17, I started seeing a (super hot) 25-year-old who lived in our small neighborhood. We saw each other a lot before we got together – he wasn’t some random perv, he was a cute guy who lived near me and was well-known to the neighborhood in general. Part of the attraction was that he was older – I’ve always and forever been into older guys. Some girls are wired that way. Your daughter might be, or she might just really like this particular guy.

My relationship lasted until I went off to college. Your daughter is at an age where this particular relationship will likely come to a natural end when she moves on from high school.

My parents were not approving, to say the least, so I went off to Planned Parenthood by myself and got myself on the pill. The guy in question insisted on condoms at all times, too. I wish I could have had a more honest conversation with my mom about the whole thing, so I commend you for talking with your daughter about it, and the importance of safe sex, and about your disappointment in her lying. You’re handling this really well.

And you may not want to hear this, either, BUT, it entirely possible that this relationship will be a completely positive experience for her – including the physical stuff. The guy I dated totally adhered to “the campsite rule,” – he left me better off than before. He taught me a lot about myself and my body, taught me how to give and take pleasure, how to respectfully handle issues of safety, how to slow things down if I wasn’t comfortable. Did me a world of good when dealing with pushy, immature and grabby college boys when the time came.

equating a 25 year old consentually dating a 17 year old with child molestation is offensive and disrespects every child who’s ever actually been molested.

Really?

I don’t know you in real life, and in my current life I work with a bunch of corporate guys whose only real “terrifying” aspect is their ability to T for C your contract or saddle you with crappy overhead pool rates.

But I used to work with criminal defendants, and while many of them were pitiful and pathetic, more than a few had the potential to terrify other hardened criminals. I’m curious to know why you’re so confident in your ability to terrify any guy on the planet. Is it something you learned in prison? As head of a brutal drug cartel? When you won your third UFC title?

I had a neighbor who believed that. His daughter is now a biker’s Old Lady. Though I’ll give the boyfriend/common law husband his props he is a very respected meth dealer.

Bullshit. It is what it is. Guys like that are predators.

Because this is the internet, where Dio can be Super Tough Guy. We all know that in real life he probably couldn’t intimidate a squirrel, but here he gets to play pretend.

Because I don’t give a fuck what happens to me, that’s why. Because I’ll fucking pull the trigger, that’s why.

It’s not about being tough. It’s about being willing.

Seriously why do people still bother trying to talk about this with Diogenes, it is obviously pointless. Hes going to fuck up his daughters lives no matter what we say.

Which means at the least you will get locked up and your daughter will be completely beyond your control or dead if the guy has experience with firearms and your daughter will be completely beyond your control. You could possibly control your daughter through threats of parental alienation or withdrawing financial support, but all the men she dates, not likely.

You go, Tough Guy.

I have no desire to control my daughters, but I am willing to go to jail to protect them. That’s my job.