Not so much 'age gap' as 'not gap year age'.
I was staying in a youth hostel recently as I'm stingy and convinced that being a young-looking 32 makes me youthful. I was chatting to a pleasant Australian girl, early twenties, who was on a two month tour of Europe. We were swapping the usual stories about work, travel and boyfriends.

"So you don't live with your bloke?" she asked.

"Nope," I replied. "He lives about ten miles from me. He's got a place just round the corner from his ten year old. Y'know, I never thought I'd be with a guy who had a kid but she's amazing and we get on so well."

"That's nice," replied the Aussie. "I don't get on with my stepmum."

I look like a stepmum.

I'd weep but I don't want to risk any more wrinkles.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:18, 11 replies)

The wrinkles
are the least of your worries.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:20, closed)

OOooo, insulting me, eh?
Back of the queue!
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:21, closed)

The insult queue?
Or the sex queue?
(Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:24, closed)

Hmmm,
whichever is longest
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:31, closed)

I'm possibly being very thick...
but if you're with a bloke with a 10year old, which you refer to as 'his' (I'm assuming it's therefore not yours also), does that not put you in the role of step mother?

(Or does that only come if you marry him?)

*Confuses*
(Colonel Santiago Introduced surprised kitty to the world., Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:28, closed)

yes
if I was married to him, but it's more the point that I am perceived as a step mum when in my mind I am a hip and trendy young thing or, at the very most, the cool auntie type. But not a grown up.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:30, closed)

A cool auntie
like Bert's Aunty Sandra

*Schwings*
(Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:33, closed)

I've heard
Sexmonkey's auntie Sandra is smokin' hot.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:37, closed)

Even Bert
would do her.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 14:43, closed)

So long as she was wearing the strap on
that is.


And the goat mask.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Thu 4 Dec 2008, 17:23, closed)

old enough to be a step-mother?
I'm 23 and my chap has a nine year old and a five year old. He admits that when we first got together he thought about me being physically but not legally old enough to be the mother of his children. :S He is eleven years younger than my step-dad.
(herefromthere, Wed 10 Dec 2008, 13:58, closed)