I never understood this whole ditch the spouse thing... and in my case, it was that I chose badly. The ex made a great girlfriend, and a lousy wife. The reverse is also true, guys who make great boyfriends usually make lousy husbands.
I’d almost be willing to bet that the woman in this story has an ex who was a lousy husband, probably a hound-dog type, married young and now is trying to recapture what she views as a lost youth.
As an older man who found himself single not by choice, the pool of available candidates expanded considerably from when I was in my 20’s. At 38, +10 to -20 broadened the pool significantly. At age 25 it’s +7 to -7. Obviously, the top and the bottom are not always attainable, but the outliers are part of the pool.
Now for a woman, I would imagine that the pool is significantly, smaller. + 15 to -5 (?) would narrow things to a point that would make it more difficult to re-live missed opportunities.
But a 13 year old? For a man, it would make him a pedophile, and for this....woman? Why is she not a pedophile? I think that this incident swerves, into that field of buckwheat.
She is a pedophile. And if it was my son, she’d think jail was the better option.