I am 35. I have a date this weekend with a 22yr old woman I met on campus. EEK. I told myself that there was no way I was going to date college aged women... I made it through one semester and most of a second one. LOL
I thought that it would bring up issues with the difference in age. Just the date. Like, my mom would wonder WTF I was thinking, some of my friends, and that kind of thing. But that hasnt happened at all...
I was surprised by my mom though. See, I am biracial. My dad is Hispanic, my mom is white. They lived through a lot of prejudice in this area, and I dealt with a little. It was always an insult from a white kid about my dad being a Mexican, and then a shot at my mom for marrying one.
Anyway, so what surprised me about my mom was when she started asking some light questions about who this girl is (which is funny, it is just ONE date), and then she dropped the race card when I told her she is Latina... I got the "Sometimes I wish you would date someone that wasnt so... brown, somebody that would understand me."
I thought that it would bring up issues with the difference in age. Just the date. Like, my mom would wonder WTF I was thinking, some of my friends, and that kind of thing. But that hasnt happened at all...
I was surprised by my mom though. See, I am biracial. My dad is Hispanic, my mom is white. They lived through a lot of prejudice in this area, and I dealt with a little. It was always an insult from a white kid about my dad being a Mexican, and then a shot at my mom for marrying one.
Anyway, so what surprised me about my mom was when she started asking some light questions about who this girl is (which is funny, it is just ONE date), and then she dropped the race card when I told her she is Latina... I got the "Sometimes I wish you would date someone that wasnt so... brown, somebody that would understand me."