A COUPLE with over 30 years between them have just tied the knot, despite often being mistaken for father and daughter. When Jessica, aged 23, and Scott, aged 54, first matched online four years ago, neither of them expected to spend the rest of their lives together. On their first date, the couple spent hours talking and instantly clicked, even though Jessica was more than half of Scott’s age. On announcing their relationship, the couple was met with judgement from some members of Scott’s family and were criticised because Jessica is almost a decade younger than some of Scott’s children. Despite the criticism, Jessica and Scott officially tied the knot at the beginning of August, and are planning to start the IVF process for their first child together in the coming months.
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00:00 COMM: This is 55-year-old Scott. He fell in love with 23-year-old Jessica.
00:07 SCOTT: I love you, babe.
00:09 JESSICA: I love you too.
00:10 COMM: With 30 years separating these two in age, there are plenty of people who haven't
00:15 responded well to their relationship.
00:17 JESSICA: I would say generally people are pretty uncomfortable with our relationship.
00:21 Wouldn't you say?
00:22 SCOTT: Yes, I would agree with that.
00:23 COMM: And their age gap wasn't the only concern Scott had on entering into the relationship.
00:28 SCOTT: My biggest concern was the fact that she was considerably younger than my daughter.
00:33 COMM: Not only that, but Jessica is hoping to have children of her own.
00:37 JESSICA: I was really worried because I want to have a family and Scott already has two kids.
00:42 SCOTT: She is completely fertile. I, however...
00:46 SCOTT: I used the wrong spray. This is for baking.
01:01 SCOTT: So how long have we been a couple? Let's see, we met on August 9th, 2016. That's
01:08 four years now. I met Jessica online when I was 50 going on 51 and you were how old?
01:16 JESSICA: 19.
01:17 SCOTT: Yes.
01:18 SCOTT: She messaged me first because her profile would have been invisible to me if she was
01:26 younger than my minimum age restriction.
01:29 JESSICA: I thought he was attractive. I usually like to date older guys because they know
01:34 what they want.
01:35 SCOTT: She just said, "Hey, what's up?" That was basically it. And I remember clicking
01:40 on the message and seeing her profile and thinking, "Wow, she's gorgeous." Then I
01:45 saw her age and then I freaked out.
01:48 SCOTT: Thanks for breakfast, babe. Enjoy that.
01:51 SCOTT: I'll never forget the first time you told me you loved me. You just blurted it
01:56 out. You just said, "I love you. I really love you." And I remember being a little,
02:01 "Whoa, she actually said it."
02:03 Being 30 years older than Jessica was a big concern for Scott, least of all because she
02:08 was a decade younger than his own children.
02:11 Initially, I had a lot of reservations about dating a girl this young. My biggest concern
02:17 was the fact that she was considerably younger than my daughter. My daughter is 32 now, almost
02:23 10 years older than you are. And of course, I was concerned about how others would think
02:27 about us together.
02:29 With such a large age gap, many have made the wrong assumptions about their pairing.
02:34 Typically, everyone thinks Scott is my dad. And I would say generally people are pretty
02:39 uncomfortable with our relationship, wouldn't you say?
02:43 Yes, I would agree with that. I also understand, honestly, if my daughter came home with somebody
02:50 30 years older, I would not be tickled pink, but I would like to think that I would accept
02:54 it.
02:55 Even those closest to Jessica have responded negatively to the relationship.
02:59 My friends weren't supportive. I think they had some judgment about it. So I'm just not
03:05 invited to things anymore.
03:07 However, despite the judgment the pair have received about their relationship, they refuse
03:12 to let it get in the way of their love for one another.
03:16 Scott and I got engaged last year in August 2019.
03:22 We had big plans. We were going to go back to Montreal where we got engaged. And of course,
03:27 all those plans were destroyed with COVID.
03:30 Yeah, we don't want to wait. We just want to get married.
03:33 This is my wedding dress. No one's seen the wedding dress yet, but me.
03:38 This is definitely the dress I want, just smaller. And I'm getting really excited for
03:42 the wedding. I have to show my parents this dress.
03:45 Hello?
03:47 Hello.
03:48 You guys are doing well?
03:49 Yes, doing very well. How about you?
03:52 I'm doing fine. Do you want to see the dress?
03:54 Yeah, I would love to.
03:55 Oh, do you need to see the dress?
03:57 Yeah, but it's a little big.
03:58 Alright, I'm ready.
03:59 Okay, here's the dress. This way, and then I'll flip it around.
04:05 Nice.
04:06 Alright, I'm ready.
04:07 Let me do it this way.
04:08 So my family took the relationship really well. He came to me and my dad, and my dad
04:13 loved him, surprisingly.
04:16 Yeah, I was really worried about my dad not liking Scott.
04:20 Who is your dad's age?
04:22 Yeah, well you're a year older than my dad.
04:25 So when Scott and I first met, I was really worried that we would not be in the same point
04:31 in our lives, because I want to have a family, and Scott already has two kids.
04:35 This, the little onesie, this is the first one we got. I gave it to her on her anniversary,
04:41 and this was kind of my way, it was a complete surprise, this was my way to kind of let her
04:46 know that I was ready.
04:48 So we are doing IVF. She is completely fertile. I, however, several years ago got a vasectomy.
04:56 I assumed that I was done with having kids. Fast forward five years, and here we are,
05:02 and I have since changed my mind.
05:04 So we're actually starting the IVF process the end of this month. Scott's already a great
05:09 dad. I think he's just going to be better than he was the first time. He's already been
05:13 through it.
05:14 I think Jessica will be a great mom.
05:16 I think most people who see us and don't know us assume that she's a gold digger.
05:26 That you're my sugar daddy.
05:28 Or I'm a sugar daddy. I mean, we can't spend our lives worrying about what everybody else thinks.
05:35 I love you, babe.
05:36 I love you, too.
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