'I learned from the best, Dad': 18-year-old daughter brings a 38-year-old fake date to the family gathering to make a point about her dad's girlfriend being 25 years younger, revealing her family's hypocrisy in the process

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Apr 29, 2025 7:00 PM EDT

Whether we like it or not, we all subconsciously mimic parts of our family life from adolescence, and for the 18-year-old girl in this next story, that meant dating an older man more than twice her age. 

Hilariously, and to prove a point, she decided to 'ruin' Easter by bringing along a dear friend of hers. Although the 38-year-old man was just a dear friend she met from work, he convincingly portrayed a dutiful boyfriend in front of the family. Most notably, he ruffled the feathers of their intended target: The girl's father, who had been dating a woman almost her age. 

Perhaps this time, the apple falling close to the tree made Dad think twice about his own relationship, after being utterly repulsed by his daughter's fake dating choices. 

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  • There's nothing quite like hypocrisy to spice up a family luncheon. Destined to repeat our parents' mistakes, this woman decided to take matters into her own hands by calling out her dad's biggest pitfall. Luckily for us readers, who love a juicy family drama, the fallout that ensued reflected poorly on the intended target: A dad who broke up his family to date a woman ⅓ of his age.

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  • AITA for bringing a much older guy to Easter dinner after my dad left my mom for someone close to my age?
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  • I (18F) moved out at 15 when I got into a boarding school abroad. When I was 12, my dad (45M) cheated on my mom (43F) with a woman (26F) who was 20 at the time. They ended up
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  • divorcing, and he's been with her ever since. She's only a few years older than me, and for the past few years, she's been at every family holiday. She's clearly only after his money, but hes too stupid and stubborn to understand.
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  • This year, for Easter, I flew back home and asked a friend of mine (38M) to come with me and pretend to be my boyfriend just for a few days at my home.
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  • After dinner, my dad pulled me aside and told me he felt uncomfortable with the situation. I told him I didn't do anything wrong and that, after him, love has no age. He told me that I
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  • ruined everyones Easter by being selfish and bringing someone his age to dinner. I flew back to school, but now I'm getting messages from a few
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  • relatives saying I should apologize to my dad and break up with my "boyfriend." I haven't responded. I don't think I'm in the wrong because hes made my life uncomfortable since the moment he cheated on my mom. AITA?
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  • Edit- seems like many think its a lie lol, i would too, but i met my friend in a book club when i moved to the us (im from europe) and he's been a great father figure to me tbh. When i had no
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  • friends there he would buy me dinner and actually spend time with me, and hes recently divorced (from his hs sweetheart) so he would've spent easter alone anyway, therefore decided to take him with and show him around.
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  • I KNOW THIS IS IMMATURE PEOPLE! I know its extremely immature of me, but I wanted to show him how it feels. Thanks a lot for the advice everyone, III update for Christmas, lol.
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  • izzi_b. NTA and I think you made an excellent statement this way. You could even tell people we tend to copy our parents behaviour
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  • Fragrant-Reserve... I would message all those people back asking "why is an age gap ok for dad bit with me it's a problem?"
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  • Living NTA. Cause you gave the taste of his own medicine. It's okay you don't owe an apology and where were these relatives when he cheated on your mom?
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  • Usual-Ca... OP tell everyone family member asking you to break up that they should lead the way and divorce or break up with their significant other or shut up. It's funny how uncomfortable the shoe gets when it's on the other foot. Daddy is finding out that children play by parents' rules sometimes.
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  • YouSayWotNow Aah I love you! NTA Your dad is a major creep (he was pretty much double her age) and a huge hypocrite!
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  • Lucky-Individual460 NTA. "I learned from the best, dad." Your family, obviously enables him. You don't owe them any apology or exolaination.
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  • live2begrateful I love your energy. Ask your family to explain the difference between what you are doing and what your dad is doing. When they can't, ask them to keep their opinions to themselves.
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  • dohbriste NTA! It's not like you started banging the guy in the middle of Easter dinner. Just his presence there was enough to send your dad off the deep end because he saw
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  • his choices reflected back at him AND DIDN'T LIKE IT. Huh. Funny how that works. (And you didn't even have to cheat on a spouse like he did...) Beautiful work OP. 10/10. No notes.
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  • Talking_-_Head He's mad because he knows it's incorrect, but can't really call it as such because he will be outing himself for hypocrisy. Edit: Also point out the age gap is actually less in your situation.
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