For the last decade, this 55-year-old man has been married to his wife, 36. They have a 6-year-old son together. Prior to this marriage, he was married to his first wife, 58, for 15 years, and they had a daughter together, who is now 30-years-old. In his view, his first marriage was disastrous and miserable, but he acknowledged that his wife wouldn't agree with that assessment. From her perspective, their first five years of marriage were wonderful. He made her feel beautiful, and he wanted to do the best he could to support her and their baby. "However, five years in, I became very unhappy. I realized I had gone basically from my parents' house to another one that was just like it. I had never had the time to be a young adult and really explore my options in terms of dating and just being mentally young instead of feeling like I was 30 going on 50," he said. Even though he and his first wife were only three years apart, and their slight age difference would have felt more obvious when he was 25, it became more apparent to him when he was in his early 30s. At this time, his wife was in her mid-30s, and he didn't like the fact that she was more mature and comfortable entering later adulthood while he still wanted to relish in young adulthood. His wife was confident with where her career was taking her, and she was planning for their future retirement. "After that, I felt like my home came with bars and orange jumpsuits, and I was depressed and checked out. We lived separately, and I started exploring the things I should have, changed careers many times, and after we finalized our divorce, I got serious with a new business, and the rest is history," he explained. [caption id="attachment_283904" align="alignnone" width="629"] Photo 187756754 © Nyul - Dreamstime.com - illustrative purposes only, not the actual person[/caption] Sign up for Chip Chick's newsletter and get stories like this delivered to your inbox. From then on, he did his best to be a great father to his daughter and give her the life she deserved despite him and his first wife no longer being together. Once he had more financial stability after he found success in the business he started, he tried to give his daughter money, but she never accepted it. During their marriage, he and his then-wife weren't on the same page. While he would have wanted to take their daughter on exciting trips, they never ended up doing so. But he didn't want to resent his wife for maturing more quickly than he did. He felt like his wife wasn't as interested in risk-taking as he was. Eventually, he met his current wife, who had tons of interests in common with him, and he felt like they had similar views on relationships, dating, and what they were looking for. His daughter is currently dating her boyfriend, 28, and he thinks her boyfriend is a wonderful person. Two weeks ago, he was on the phone with his daughter, and he asked her why she and her boyfriend hadn't gotten married yet. "She sighed and said, 'Well, he's a great guy, but in my experience, you were great and in the same place in life with Mom until suddenly you hated having an older wife. Your marriage and other marriages seem to give the impression that a man two decades older with loads of baggage would treat me better instead of fearing a younger husband will flip the same switch you did at 32,'" he shared. This offended him, and he had no idea why his daughter was analyzing his previous marriage to her mother. He doesn't believe her analysis was a fair interpretation of his relationship with his ex-wife in the first place. He came to the conclusion that he didn't deserve to be spoken to this way, and he hung up on his daughter. Since this phone call, they haven't spoken. Now, he wants her to say sorry, and he wouldn't care if, during her apology, she tells him that he's at fault for her views on relationships with men. Do you think he was wrong for hanging up on his daughter during their phone call? You can read the original post on Reddit here. 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