My fiancee is older than me by a month, in essence, I'm engaged to a cougar!oh, my, you're younger even than I thought! (you're so precious! not a wrinkle yet!)
I'm honestly relieved for you two. I see so many struggling to figure it out. We had a young woman work with our son for a while and it was like she was struggling to figure out which sexual orientation she was, and was so anxious about it and thinking so hard about it. I think she settle on something like fluid for now, because she can't figure it out ... but yeah, between the gender and sexual orientation, the amount of anxiety is through the roof. I work with 18-25 year olds and about 6 years ago now we noticed the number with anxiety just went through the roof. Though I have had some of your generation also tell me that its like having a mental health issue, particularly anxiety, has become trending, and everyone has it or thinks they do.
This is my experience (so, anyone, please don't shoot me ). I went to an all-boys school that offers courses like healthy masculinity and 21st-century manhood, but the school occasionally invited lecturers on gender studies, who introduced the idea of gender as a spectrum. Those lectures caused a lot of confusion and subsequently, anxiety-depression among students. A few students said trying to figure out where they were on the gender spectrum gave them sleepless nights. One student told his mom about his confusion, apparently, the mother told him, "Go to your room, stand in front of the mirror, pull your boxers down. Whatever you have, that's what you are, no matter what your mind tells you."
Anyhoo...back to Lalande.
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