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Contributor: P'Gell P'Gell
Quote:
Originally posted by Kitten has left the site
My husband and I are 18 years apart. So this happens a few times to us.
Dr: Do you have family here?
Andy: *Points to me*
Cheryl: :3 Me.
Dr: So your daughter.
Cheryl: I'M HIS WIFE...
Andy: *laughing*

Does that happen to you?
A few times people have thought my husband was my father. (He looks nothing like my father, and my father is a LOT older than he is.) At first, I am flattered, and then he gets upset that someone thought he was "so old."

*sigh*

It doesn't happen often. Oddly, my oldest daughter looks a lot like me (but younger of course) and a few times people have thought they were "together." It totally creeped my husband out.
05/01/2012
Contributor: Airen Wolf Airen Wolf
(EF Review Program Mentor)
Quote:
Originally posted by Kitten has left the site
My husband and I are 18 years apart. So this happens a few times to us.
Dr: Do you have family here?
Andy: *Points to me*
Cheryl: :3 Me.
Dr: So your daughter.
Cheryl: I'M HIS WIFE...
Andy: *laughing*

Does that happen to you?
I need the "other" category! My life partner and I are 15 years apart but we have a toddler and neither of us looks our age. When Monkey calls me 'Mommy' and him 'Daddy' people just assume we are married since I wear a very flashy ring on my finger. It really gets complicated and amusing when Sigel, Arch and I have the kids with us in public...
05/01/2012
Contributor: puppylove puppylove
I've never had this happen with my boyfriend as we are only 3 years apart, but I have young parents and my dad has always looked really young for his age (yay for good genetics) I have on multiple occasions as I got older been called my dad's wife when out and about with him, people get really embarrassed when he corrected them 'no, that's my teenage daughter'
05/01/2012
Contributor: DeliciousSurprise DeliciousSurprise
This hasn't happened to me, but people have asked my father about his girlfriend--meaning me.

05/01/2012
Contributor: quinceykay quinceykay
No. My bf is 11 years older, but I don't think we look unusually far apart in age.
05/01/2012
Contributor: Terri69 Terri69
We're not that far apart in age
05/02/2012
Contributor: solitudinarian solitudinarian
We're 12 years apart, but we've never had this. Though most people think I look 1-4 years older than I am and we don't look very similar. Some people think he looks older than he is, some younger. Lots of PDA as well usually, lol.
05/12/2012
Contributor: jmex83 jmex83
Quote:
Originally posted by Kitten has left the site
My husband and I are 18 years apart. So this happens a few times to us.
Dr: Do you have family here?
Andy: *Points to me*
Cheryl: :3 Me.
Dr: So your daughter.
Cheryl: I'M HIS WIFE...
Andy: *laughing*

Does that happen to you?
Nope, my wife and I are only a year aprt in age
05/18/2012
Contributor: xMila xMila
He's only 9 years older, so no, it hasn't happened to us
06/03/2012
Contributor: Talena Talena
With my hubby this doesn't happen much but when he doesn't shave a while, we will get those such comments. I used to get those comments all the time when I would go out with my ex. I won't date over 15 years older than I, and I don't mind the comments..they make me laugh.
06/03/2012
Contributor: Sinfully Sinfully
Nope. The biggest age gap I've had with a bf was 13 years and he looked young for his age so no one ever said anything.
06/04/2012
Contributor: Kitten has left the site Kitten has left the site
Quote:
Originally posted by Chilipepper
I have the opposite problem: people mistake my father and me for a couple. I don't look anything like him (I look like my mother's side of the family), but it's still disconcerting.
yeah O_O i would think it would be very disconcerting
06/04/2012
Contributor: MistressDandelion MistressDandelion
Maybe not daughter, but people definately think I'm his "sister"(argh misgendering..) since I look 12 if I don't do full on drag.
06/06/2012
Contributor: Gone (LD29) Gone (LD29)
No, but we've been mistaken for brother & sister at least once.
06/06/2012
Contributor: lisasharrer lisasharrer
Quote:
Originally posted by Kitten has left the site
My husband and I are 18 years apart. So this happens a few times to us.
Dr: Do you have family here?
Andy: *Points to me*
Cheryl: :3 Me.
Dr: So your daughter.
Cheryl: I'M HIS WIFE...
Andy: *laughing*

Does that happen to you?
not that i know of but fuck them im in love
06/06/2012
Contributor: Short Cake Short Cake
It happens every now and then, but i just ignore it and laugh!
06/11/2012
Contributor: Rockasaurus Rockasaurus
Quote:
Originally posted by Kitten has left the site
My husband and I are 18 years apart. So this happens a few times to us.
Dr: Do you have family here?
Andy: *Points to me*
Cheryl: :3 Me.
Dr: So your daughter.
Cheryl: I'M HIS WIFE...
Andy: *laughing*

Does that happen to you?
Sometimes it has been assumed that we are siblings, though. Ack.
06/15/2012
Contributor: remember.me remember.me
I have had this issue in the past but no, I don't know. I know what it is like though!
06/15/2012
Contributor: Cora Jane Cora Jane
My boyfriend is 6 years younger than me, but most people think he's older than I am. *shrug*
07/22/2012
Contributor: Billie Bones Billie Bones
I was recently dating a woman who was 9 years older than me. biggest age gap I've experience but not big enough for someone to think I was her kiddo.
07/23/2012
Contributor: Scrawberry78 Scrawberry78
My boyfriend and I are 11 years apart. No one has said anything to us but I can see them looking at us like they are thinking about it lol. I find it to be funny.
07/23/2012
Contributor: Woman China Woman China
I usually seem to date older men and it's happened a time or two!!! I try to teach them not to jump into a judgement though. I find it funny!
07/23/2012
Contributor: travelnurse travelnurse
My husband is only 8 years older then me so it hasn't happened. BUT, I work in the ER and I have been the one who asked about a patients daughter or son and it has been husband/wife. oops. More power to you all.
07/23/2012
Contributor: Rory Rory
But I have a friend who had a picture of her father on her desk. One day I said to her that her father was handsome - MY MISTAKE!! It is her husband!!
08/25/2012
Contributor: TrenchcoatHunters TrenchcoatHunters
Quote:
Originally posted by Kitten has left the site
My husband and I are 18 years apart. So this happens a few times to us.
Dr: Do you have family here?
Andy: *Points to me*
Cheryl: :3 Me.
Dr: So your daughter.
Cheryl: I'M HIS WIFE...
Andy: *laughing*

Does that happen to you?
I have had friends that have happened to, but for me and my partner it hasn't.
08/25/2012