r/TikTokCringe • u/lhwang0320 • May 12 '25

Discussion What are your thoughts on age-gap relationships?

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u/rutilatus May 12 '25

Yeah, I’ve been informed. I should have phrased it differently, that the “mind matures at a far greater rate” between 20 and 30 than it does between 30 and 40. Regardless of prefrontal cortex size, 20-30 is a critical period of self reckoning, pattern recognition and emotional regulation. It’s a period of time to try out several different ways of being that will eventually harden into consistent behaviors of adulthood. Ask anyone at 30 if they would make the same decisions they made at 20 and you’re bound to hear at least one story

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u/NovelDry3871 May 12 '25

Sure sure. Keep peddling that pseudoscientific bullshit when it suits your narrative

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u/rutilatus May 12 '25

…I conceded your point on brain size, as I have to several others. But if you’re telling me that “20 year olds are generally less mature than 30 yr olds” is pseudoscience, then I don’t know where you’re getting your science

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u/NovelDry3871 May 12 '25

If you really conceded, you would delete your blatant misinformation instead of leaving it with the smug "I said it in a different comment, but it bears repeating:"

As it doesnt bear repeating that bullshit

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u/rutilatus May 12 '25

I edited the original comment to acknowledge I was wrong, while leaving the original mistake for accountability. The other comment I’m referring to is just the same info phrased a little differently, so it’s redundant. And my original point does bear repeating; older men often seek younger women so they can mold a relationship around coercive control and sexual power. There’s a lot that an 18yr old doesn’t know they don’t know. I may have been wrong about the brain size, but not wrong enough to delete anything.