‘My boyfriend’s almost half my age — he reminds folks of my youngest son’
A self-declared cougar who’s relationship somebody almost half her age has revealed they always get mistaken for mom and son however claims she’s not bothered about their age hole as a result of they’ve a “natural” connection.
Rachel, a 48-year-old highschool Spanish instructor from Austin, Texas, and her boyfriend Alex, 25, consider they’re “kindred spirits” who had been “meant to be”. The mum, who has two sons aged 19 and 23, was newly divorced when she met Alex on a relationship app in December 2020 and admitted she was initially involved about their 23-year age hole.
“I was very hesitant because he looked young. I was like ‘Oh no he is way too young’. But we started talking and it was just natural and easy,” Rachel advised the YouTube sequence Love Don’t Judge.
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Meanwhile, Alex was purely “excited” to be with an older girl. Opening up about their unconventional romance, he stated: “There actually is not any distinction between this relationship from a ‘regular’ one in addition to the truth that she occurs to be older than me.
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“There’s plenty of men who date much younger women and no one bats an eye to it but got forbid an older woman be with a younger man.” The couple now share particulars about their controversial age-gap relationship on TikTookay, together with movies concerning the “pros of dating an older woman” and “tips for dating a cougar”.
But Rachel landed herself in scorching water after her college students came upon about her cougar relationship life when a number of the movies went “crazy” and bought tens of millions of views, resulting in a gathering with the principal of her faculty. “Their biggest concern was that the parents and everybody thought he was one of my students,” Rachel defined.
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Alex hasn’t simply been mistaken for one among Rachel’s college students although, the couple revealed folks additionally usually suppose he is her son. “People on TikTok say we look alike. We have had sometimes people mistake us for mother and son or brother and sister.
“We belong to this fitness center and the man who labored on the entrance desk was like ‘Mother and son, I can already inform, I can see it you look simply alike,’” the couple recalled. They claimed it doesn’t bother them as they simply “giggle it off” and Rachel admitted Alex does actually remind her “quite a bit” of her youngest son, who she says is okay with their relationship.
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But with regards to her older son, Ben, Rachel revealed he “was not as accepting” as his brother. Ben stated he was initially “really confused” as he recalled how he came upon about their romance.
He stated: “The way that I found out about Alex was through one of my friends from high school actually sent me a text and it had a TikTok in it and they were like ‘I’m so sorry’. He added: “I used to be actually upset at her for not solely doing this with Alex however making it public so that everybody can see.”
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But he is now come round to the concept of them being collectively. “I kind of understand a bit more that you shouldn’t care as much about what people think,” he stated.
Despite receiving hate from trolls on-line about their relationship, Rachel and Alex are wanting ahead to their future collectively. “I don’t know what it holds but I’m happy and excited to continue this life,” Rachel stated.
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