I’m 28, my boss at work, he speaks softly to me and is gentle and protective. I’ll be honest I realized he’s single and I’m attracted to him but are his feelings most likely fatherly feelings even though I’m not his actual daughter? Would he acts this way towards women closer to his age for example? Is it just because I’m in my 20s and once I hit my 30s things will change?
One of the most wonderful things about human beings is that no two of us are exactly alike.
When I was 40, I had a 23 yo girlfriend. She was fun and exciting and sexy, but there were age-gap-based cultural differences. I also didn't like the stares we got when people realized that we were lovers and not a father-daughter pair. I resolved not to let that happen again. She very much wanted to marry me, but the incompatibilities were too much. I was kind of a hot property at the time and she actually begged me not to "marry anyone else" before giving her a second chance once I started dating someone closer to my own age. Ironocally, she ended up marrying within a year, and then contacting me some 15 years later after she got a divorce.
When I was 45, a woman 20 years my junior aggressively pursued me. I kept telling her: "Go away little girl! Go find a boy your own age to p[lay with."
She didn't, and eventually called me out on my PREJUDICE against dating younger women, daring me to try dating her for a while before making up my mind. I did, and we ended up getting engaged, as we were very compatible intellectually. We did break up, though, because on day one I told her I would never move away from Hawai'i, because it had taken me all my life to achieve my goal of moving here, and she agreed never to ask me to do so, l, but within a year she asked me to move to NORTH DAKOTA - on the wintertime, no less! In retrospect. yjois was an age difference thing too: she was busy building her career, while I was busy laying the foundation for my retirement.
Today I have a very close friendship with a woman twelve years younger than I. We tried dating for a while, but I couldn't match her energy level.
Not that anyone much younger is interested in me these days, but I wouldn't date anyone much younger because I know I couldn't match her energy level either in the bedroom or with parenting duties. The effects of advancing age are a real thing to consider in an age-gap LTR.
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What you mentioned are hardly 'signs' of anything. Speaks softly to you...😂 😂... you will need something way better than that.
There's not enough info to say whether he likes you or not, but speaking from experience most men at that age would be flattered that you're attracted to them and some even have a preference for younger women like you so I don't think you need to worry on that front.
If he does have a daughter that's around the same ag as you and you happen to look like her that would be a different story hahaha
Depends entirely on the him and his preferences
SO it can be either, you need to look for more signs...
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I think if he's single he could like you (and maybe even if he's married).
He can't date his reports. Change teams, then ask him out.
No he wouldn't think your too young for him
Maybe, each guy is different, some would love that
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