Shut up you kittie!

Agreed - as long as you weren't in high school and he wasn't in kindergarten when the relationship actually began go for it and own it!

Listen up Cat; you're not the boss of me-ow!

its ok my dad is 14years older than my mother... I call him a pedo. just joke with it. laugh with them they will stop.

40- my uncle was in college when my aunt was born. Theyre happily in love, so it doesn't bother us.

RAWR!

On the other hand a man who goes after a younger woman is simply called ....a man. Giggity.

So that could be only 9 years......

9 years at the least OP didn't say what year of high school

#119 and #130, wouldn't it be interesting if they discovered that OP babysat her husband? That would most certainly be awkward.

Better than a cradle robber lol

Yup. My husband is six years older than me and gets jokes about "robbing the cradle" from his friends, so it's pretty much a guarantee that a bigger age gap will get those jokes too. Laugh it off, OP; not much else you can do about it.

2 - last I heard, cougars are very defensive of their territory.

I don't even know how this is an FML - it's basically the same as, "Today my friend called me a poopy-head after I went to the bathroom." Big friggin deal, get over it!

My boyfriend gets jokes like that from his friends, and we're only 2 years apart.

Depends on your age #104. If you're 16 and he's 18 that's a sizeable difference. If you were 32 and 30 noone would comment. Even 6 years is very little by that time...

So does OP's husband.

Spoken like a true pedophile Emo.

Random comment but I LOVE YOUR HAIR. probably going to get downvoted though lol...

Me and my boyfriend are just a year and 2 months apart and I get called cougar all the time. Mostly because he was still in high school when I started dating him and I'm in college. I think the perspective changes the older you get. It's more acceptable to be that 'far apart' when you are older but for example a 14 year old dating a 19 year old is considered wrong because of laws. I think the nickname is thrown around whenever.

Yes, thank you. We didn't get it the first time.

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103- you're a dumbass. This is a public site... everyone's opinion is atomatically included. Fucking Duh

I pictured the Commentor yelling ERROR! At his computer.

Totally! My parents are ten years apart but they r just fine!

I think it's more of a "YDI" because she IS a cougar

I think she deserves it. Doesn't mean I think she's wrong or doing something bad.

There's nothing wrong with being a cougar though. In fact there's a market out there for fine young men that like older women. I already promised myself if I'm still aingle at fourty I will absolutely keep a boy toy around the house!

YDI meaning "you deserve the jokes." I don't think there's a single thing wrong with what they're doing, but you can't complain when people make obvious jokes. It's just gonna happen.

I did it because everybody else did it. The pressure, man.