Any useful “Old Man tips and tricks” you’ve learned from him? And in contrast, any “Young people stuff” he’s picked up from you?
What languages do you two speak?
I speak Tagalog, English and Spanish. He speaks English, Spanish and a bit of Tagalog (starting learning after we met).
How often do you two use each language?
It’s English 99% of the time between us. I use Tagalog often with my family and friends back home in the Philippines.
How did you meet, and do you have shared interests?
We met at a resort I was working at in Boracay in 2016. I wouldn’t say we necessarily like the same things, but we show interest in and do together the stuff each of us enjoys.
What’s something fun you do together? Do you feel like you’re each other’s friend?
Hot tub, sauna, travel, pool, fish (I don’t fish, I sunbathe while he fishes), picnics outdoors, hiking, watching stuff on the TV in bed, etc. yes.
That’s nice. From other responses, you seem happy. And from this, you seem like you’re in a respectful and productive relationship. I truly wish you the best of luck and hope that your life only gets better.
Why did you marry a 78 year old man?
He wasn’t 78 when we married but still a good question. It was transactional. He knows it, I know it. We’re both on the same page and happy with it.
Are you poly-amorous?
Nope.
Does that mean that you do love him? I thought it was transactional. Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of transactional. What is being transacted?
He takes care of me financially and I take care of him emotionally, sexually, physically, etc. Depends on how you define love. I care about him and we’re close, but I don’t feel “in love” with him if that makes sense. It’s transactional but with feelings developed over time I guess.
Interesting. The reason I ask about polyamory is because I interpreted it as “you get these things except love, I get money, but I can go find love elsewhere”.
Are you in danger of ICE?
He fulfills my emotional and sexual needs, so I don’t feel the need to look elsewhere. I don’t feel in danger, but can you really even know these days?
How old were you when you got together?
- Came to the US in 2019 on a fiancé visa, got married, did adjustment of status & got my green card.
I’d be interested in hearing details about how you guys met and decided to proceed after that? Was there like a website or broker involved or was it just at a bar or something?
Did he have you sign a prenuptial agreement?
Does it feel good spending time with him? Like realy enjoing it and not just feeling like it’s a good job?
Yes, even though our relationship is fundamentally transactional I like him.
How are you enjoying your sexual peak
How rich is he?
By American standards not very rich but the US dollar goes a long way in the Philippines.
This is super interesting, thanks so much for doing this!
If he ran out of money would you leave him?
Have you met his friends and family, if so, how were they towards you?
I don’t know. That’s my honest answer. But I’m sure he won’t blame me if I did, he’s a pragmatist. I have. I’m amicable with everybody. He has 2 sons: born in 69 and 71 (I’m 97). We’re distant cause they find it weird. On the other hand I’m close with his grandkids cause we’re around the same age.
Wanna read an old man/ young wife joke?
Sure.
Nsfw warning
So, a 20 year old woman marries a 70 year old man.
On their wedding night, she goes into the bathroom to get ready for bed.
She comes out and her new husband is standing there, fully erect with a condom on, with a clothes pin on his nose, and stuffing cotton into his ears.
She asks him what the heck is going on, he says "if there’s two things I can’t stand, it’s the screams of a woman and the smell of burning rubber.
I don’t get it. Care to explain?
The implication is that the man has sex so hard and fast that the rubber of the condom is going to overheat, and that either the process of that causing discomfort or pleasure will cause the woman to scream.
Part of the joke is the subversion of expectations; old men aren’t “supposed” to be able to have sex at all, much less vigorous sex.
It also plays off of the assumption that a young woman marrying a much older man doesn’t expect sex at all; this is indicated by her getting ready for bed, rather than preparing for sex as one might expect with a pair of younger newlyweds.
Add in that you have the old man subverting the young woman’s expectations in an exaggerated way, and you’ve got enough differences from the reader’s/audiences expectations that the joke is usually well received.
This version of it skips the often misogynistic aspects that some variants of the joke use. Those versions typically set up the joke with the young woman specifically being described as a “gold digger” that married the man not only just for money, but having claimed to love the man.
While avoiding that aspect of it does take a layer of subversion away, I feel that the joke works better this way, where the audience lets their own preconceptions of the scenario determine the motivations of the characters in the joke. While I might personally prefer you whittle the joke down into a form that doesn’t allow for a misogynistic or ageist audience to find portrays pleasure in it at all, I feel that this structure works to at least point the finger at ageist thinking rather than rely on it as the sole source of the humor.
I will say that the joke works better in person than in writing, imo.
Maybe to suggest that he’s horny as shit and wants to treat his woman like a sex doll
If he can’t get her wet, that’s going to be a lot of friction on the rubber he’s wearing. And she’d be screaming in pain
Why would you choose a place with fascism on the rise?
Back when I came here there were still checks and balances in place.
That makes sense
