📝 AITAH - Age gap

By Flashy-Scar3709 • Score: 5 • April 19, 2025 1:27 AM


I Jessica (20) am dating a man Thomas (33) and need advice on our relationship.

We met in October and went out with some friends. He was interested and wanting to sleep with me on the first day of meeting, which was a little crazy for me I said no, and then politely exchanged numbers with him bc he was very pushy (if you’re a woman you already know) and when he called me, the # was saved as “weirdo from Club”. I went back to our messages and I had met him when I was 17 turning 18.

Fast forward to now I wouldn’t answer his texts all of November but early December I decided to go to dinner we ended up going out and things escalated and somehow we slept together. He was a little pushy but we were both messed up. In the next month of talking to each other, I got pregnant and we chose to not keep it for the fact that I was young and I couldn’t handle it, he couldn’t either.

The night I found out I was pregnant he went to the strip club and it was hard for me. After this for the next two months he wasn’t necessarily acting right because he thought that I was too young to want to be in a committed relationship, but he was actively texting other girls, We also didn’t establish anything and I was going on vacations with friends which made him uncomfortable?

when I made myself clear that I was interested in a relationship. He cleaned up his act and now constantly reminds me how much he loves me isn’t cheating on me and I make sure of it He has gotten highly possessive. Doesn’t like me going anywhere with alcohol or most places at night without him and will blow up and accuse me of cheating.

He wants to marry me and meet my family, but I don’t know how they would feel about our age gap. He has a criminal record, which makes it hard for things and my family might not accept him because we’re Christian and he’s Muslim.

Could this relationship still work with our different religions? Am I the asshole for wanting to leave this relationship or having second guesses on if it’s right, he really does adore me and treat me right it’s just some things that bother me like is he single at 33 for a reason? And although he’s nice to me a lot, the possessiveness and anger issues scare me

Note: his is my second time posting on this platform so I’m still getting used to it, if this isn’t perfect.

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