Speaker 1: Britt Laura. You know, I'm on the dating scene. I'm
Speaker 1: back on that app some I'm single.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've been having some successes too, my little Mitch Jury.
Speaker 3: We're all living vicariously three now because Laura and I
Speaker 3: have settled down.
Speaker 1: There's this guy that I'm currently seeing. He's gorgeous, he's
Speaker 1: very sweet. Just a couple of dates, like five or
Speaker 1: six dates. So it's at that point where it's like,
Speaker 1: we've got to make a choice. What way do we go.
Speaker 1: We're going to end this or we're gonna have a
Speaker 1: chat about what's next. Anyway, the only issue I can
Speaker 1: see between the two of us is that it's very cute,
Speaker 1: very nice. We get along, good banter. I'm twenty eight,
Speaker 1: he's twenty one.
Speaker 2: He's so young, and it is Look, I know, seven
Speaker 2: years isn't that big of an age gap. I just
Speaker 2: think twenty one year olds, and this is a very
Speaker 2: blanket statement, but they don't always want the things that
Speaker 2: a twenty eight year old wants. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: life that happens in your twenties, which I think is
Speaker 2: a really important part of life.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wanted to drive to the date, and he
Speaker 1: wanted to get the train cause you don't have a car. Anyway.
Speaker 1: We go to this restaurant. It's really nice. It's a
Speaker 1: cocktail bar, and we're there, we're ordering, and the banter
Speaker 1: is kind of about the age gap between the two
Speaker 1: of us because he thinks it's funny. I think it's
Speaker 1: I think it's a bit annoying that he keeps bringing
Speaker 1: it up. So I lean over to this couple next
Speaker 1: to us, who are on another spa stool at this
Speaker 1: cocktail bar. Jazz is playing. It's an underground den, and
Speaker 1: I go, you know what, I'm going to nip this
Speaker 1: in the butt once and for all. So I turned
Speaker 1: to this young couple, probably a little bit older to me,
Speaker 1: in their thirties. Excuse me, guys, sorry, And I've got
Speaker 1: a bit of liquid courage. I go, look at the
Speaker 1: two of us, Look at the two of us, and
Speaker 1: you tell me who do you think is old? And
Speaker 1: they go you. I didn't even finish the sentence, and
Speaker 1: who do you think is older? But you with a
Speaker 1: brown hair?
Speaker 3: I have seen the person you're dating, Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: feel like that you're setting yourself up.
Speaker 1: To fight, So okay, shut up. The bartender comes around,
Speaker 1: Can I get your boys any more drinks? I go,
Speaker 1: yes you can, and can you tell me who between
Speaker 1: the two of us is? Oh? Actually taps you on
Speaker 1: the shoulders like this one right here? Absolutely you. I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: man at the back. When your two children come over here, kids, Hi, kids, Hi,
Speaker 1: who out of the two of us is an older human?
Speaker 1: They all point the big one.
Speaker 2: Big one wing to you.
Speaker 3: Mitch.
Speaker 2: Maybe you have some body dysmorphia where you think you
Speaker 2: look younger than you do.
Speaker 1: How dare you?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't look like a twenty eight year old, Mitch.
Speaker 1: You don't look like a twenty one.
Speaker 3: And so what was the purpose of this on the spot,
Speaker 3: spontaneous survey of the room, interrupting everyone's lovely night out.
Speaker 1: It was purely to make me feel better about the
Speaker 1: age gap not being an issue, because in my mind
Speaker 1: I don't think it is that big of an issue,
Speaker 1: but apparently everyone thinks it is.
Speaker 3: You guys, think, what's funny you say that because I
Speaker 3: actually recently came across a study.
Speaker 1: A little bit of it I read.
Speaker 3: I love some science. No, Mitch, I'm sorry to be
Speaker 3: the one to tell you. Just remind me what's theage
Speaker 3: different seventeen years, okay, eight years? Well, all right, even
Speaker 3: worse than thought. There's a study that experts have done
Speaker 3: and there is a correlation between age gaps in a
Speaker 3: relationship and how likely the relationship is to break up.
Speaker 1: Okay, A long story short.
Speaker 3: The bigger the age gap, the more likely you are
Speaker 3: for that relationship to not work. Now, if we go
Speaker 3: into your category of what's so fun, you have your
Speaker 3: category of seen you no five years difference, so five
Speaker 3: years and a since your category is an added eighteen
Speaker 3: percent on top of the normal breakup to what odds
Speaker 3: you are of breaking up?
Speaker 2: Dear, Really, sixteen works, doesn't it?
Speaker 3: Eighteen percent more likely?
Speaker 1: I don't believe, so tap out now, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't believe it, do you know? I just think age
Speaker 1: gaps matter more the younger you are.
Speaker 2: So like, if you're a teenager and there's an eight
Speaker 2: year age gap, that is illegal.
Speaker 1: If you are in your.
Speaker 2: Twenties and there's an eight year age gap, then that
Speaker 2: just becomes a bit tricky because there's so much life
Speaker 2: to live. If you're in your thirties and there's an
Speaker 2: eight not that bad. Sixties, no one cares sixty one
Speaker 2: sixty nine year old. You can date all day long.
Speaker 2: No one cares the age gap.
Speaker 3: I mean, like I'm giving you a hard time, Midge.
Speaker 3: But the age gap for my last relationship was seven
Speaker 3: years and I was seven years older, so like hell
Speaker 3: scandalo brand. But the difference was twenty seven to whatever.
Speaker 1: That is thirty five.
Speaker 2: Also, how the difference is a book is that you.
Speaker 1: Often lie about your age, so no one knew anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he thought I was twenty eight.
Speaker 3: But do you know what, Mitch, that was okay because
Speaker 3: he's frontal lob developed, so it's twenty one every fund
Speaker 3: me and he had a bit of life experience and
Speaker 3: he drove, so twenty one. No, but be in all seriousness,
Speaker 3: twenty one. There are studies to say that you are
Speaker 3: still working out who you are