Credit: SWNS / Alex Michael
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00:00 A lot of people think I'm like a sugar baby.
00:02 I'm not that lucky.
00:03 (laughing)
00:04 That's what I always say.
00:04 - I never envisioned, and I don't think he did either,
00:06 that this would be a relationship.
00:09 (upbeat music)
00:12 In 2020, I had just recently ended my marriage.
00:28 A friend of mine convinced me to get on a dating app.
00:32 He had actually DM'd me.
00:34 For some reason, I just kept coming back
00:36 to his picture on his DM.
00:38 But I thought he had really kind eyes.
00:40 We started chatting,
00:41 kinda had this fun banter with each other,
00:44 and we found we had so much in common.
00:46 Our personalities are super similar.
00:49 The age question came up.
00:53 I was 45 at the time, so I was like,
00:56 you know I'm 45?
00:58 And no, I was 45.
00:59 - 46.
01:00 - Was I?
01:02 I said, well how are you doing?
01:02 He said, 23.
01:04 And I was like, whoa, 23!
01:07 That's way too young.
01:09 - I had never been with an older woman before.
01:11 I was a little curious,
01:12 and I happened to change my age range on Hinge,
01:16 the app that we met on.
01:17 She was super cool and just genuine.
01:19 You know, she's more than just like a pretty face.
01:22 (upbeat music)
01:24 (soft music)
01:27 - She offered to fly to New York to see me.
01:31 - We both love to travel.
01:32 I never envisioned, and I don't think he did either,
01:34 that this would be a relationship.
01:37 But when we did Miami,
01:39 that's when I realized that I was,
01:41 you know, I had real feelings for him.
01:44 - January of 2021, I came and visited her in Houston,
01:48 where she was living at the time.
01:49 And she asked if I wanted to move in with her.
01:53 - Everything fell into place perfectly
01:54 because I got a remote job that week.
01:57 I got a suitcase and I was like,
01:59 yeah, I'm just going to Houston.
02:01 Like, I just never came back.
02:02 (soft music)
02:05 We just put out a silly little video
02:11 of tips for dating a cougar.
02:13 - And I had students.
02:16 They were like, your TikTok is blowing up.
02:20 So I was like, take it down, take it down.
02:22 I'm like, let's just let it hit a million views.
02:24 And she's like, take the video down.
02:26 So we had to take it down.
02:27 We were trying to do more like,
02:32 boyfriend, girlfriend, dating content.
02:34 - His side of the family, they don't accept me.
02:43 And they think that I'm some kind of a cougar,
02:46 grooming him, sexual predator.
02:48 - A lot of people think I'm like a sugar baby.
02:51 I'm not that lucky.
02:52 (laughing)
02:53 That's what I always say.
02:54 - That's not such a big deal on my side of the family.
02:57 They make fun, but they're also, you know,
02:59 they're more, they're respectful of it.
03:01 - I'm reaching that point where I just am like, whatever.
03:03 Like, I'm a man, a grown man.
03:05 This is what I want to do.
03:07 I'm happy with it.
03:08 And that's that.
03:09 We've had lots of ups and downs,
03:11 but I think we're getting, especially very lately,
03:13 we're in a really great place.
03:15 - We're in a good place.
03:15 You should be able to live your life.
03:17 And if you find something so real and so unique
03:21 as what we have, you should not deprive yourself
03:25 of that happiness just because of what other people think.
03:28 (upbeat music)
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