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  • Why do people in their 30's and above answer a question differently than younger folks?

    So here's is my situation.

    I had awesome friends.

    I met a girl, we started dating, and sometimes we would do things with my friends together. Sometimes not.

    I got a job and moved to a place about 2.5 hours away to a city where i know no one; she promised to move to follow me.

    Now she is saying that she will move once she gets a job down here, but not before.

    This is not what i thought she was originally saying and is basically taking forever.

    Now that i'm not around she hangs out with my friends at least once a week without me and talks to them several times a week, and plans events to get together and bond with them.

    So this makes me feel really uncomfortable and I experience a lot of emotions around it. She has her own friends, but says that in the 4 months she has been hanging out with them (despite that ive known them for several years), that basically they are her friends now, and that she doesn't want to give them up (even though she has her own friends and I dont have anyone else).

    So the thing is that i have asked a lot of people if i have the right to have my own friends as seperate from her, and i have gotten a variety of answers about the situation. Some people say if it bothers me and she cares about me that she should just hang out with her own friends and let me keep mine for me. Some other people say that it's just too bad that it bothers me, and that she isn't doing anything wrong by hanging out with my friends despite the fact that it makes me upset, and I just need to deal with it. Other people still say that i should just cut my ties with her and/or them, because they should understand that it would cause difficulties with my friends who end up getting caught in between.

    That was all setup here is the question

    I have noticed that as a general rule people OVER the age of say 28 are MUCH MUCH more likely to say that what she is doing is selfish and that people under 27 seem to thing that she is perfectly fine and shouldn't have to worry about how it makes me feel (because her actions are otherwise not wrong). So my question is...

    As a general rule, why do people who are approaching their 30's or older answer the question differently as a general rule (there were exceptions on both sides but it was a really clear trend).

    Any help would be awesome!

    James

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    How many teams have won back to back world series? in what years? and are any of these teams still around?

    6 AnswersBaseball1 decade ago