Mikayla Matthews’ husband was as old when they got together?!
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Mikayla is the youngest of the group. When the “grandmother” of the cast barely over 30, that’s saying a lot.
People who have followed the Mormon MomTok drama are not concerned about her current age.
Instead, the question is about how old Mikayla Matthews’ husband was when they started dating. She was only 16.
Mikayla Matthews makes no secret of how things started with her husband
In /momtokgossip, Reddit residents highlighted Mikayla Matthews’ own social media posts about her relationship.
Mikayla turned 24 earlier this year. Her husband, Jace, is almost 30. That’s not just “no big deal,” but no big deal—just a couple in their twenties. A little young to get married and a little young to have three kids, but otherwise normal, right?
However, Redditors noticed a major red flag in their relationship, highlighting that Mikayla Matthews was 16 when her husband was 21.
“My husband and I will be 22 and 27 this year after 3 amazing kids,” Mikayla Matthews wrote of herself and her husband Jace Terry in the resurfaced post. She turned 22 in early 2022.
“Us at 16 and 21,” Mikayla wrote, showing old footage from presumably 2016 or early 2017, when she was a high school student and Jace was an adult of legal drinking age.
The current photos of the couple look normal and very cute. But many on social media found this revelation shocking. What kind of adult man in his 20s, even at such an early age, starts a relationship with a teenage girl?
Fans don’t know what to make of Mikayla Matthews’ husband or the age gap between them…
On Reddit, one commenter wrote: “I think the age gap (now) is fine, but 16 and a 21 year old… she was a kid.”
A response to that comment reads: “This led me to Google to find out that Utah’s Romeo and Juliet law allows for a 7-year age gap for minors and their ‘partners.’”
Another Redditor shared their own painful perspective: “This age gap is unacceptable. I got married at 16 to a 21-year-old girl. I spent the next 6 years being abused. You’re not old enough to make these decisions at 16.”
Age gaps have become a hot topic in recent years. While it’s good that more people are paying attention to them, especially since they intersect with topics like predation and sexism, it’s clear that some people have I lost the plot.
If you’ve ever seen a social media post warning high school or college classmates not to date if they’re in different grades, you’ve seen this firsthand. Online commentary about celebrity marriages can feel similar. unbalanced.
Yes, there are people — famous or not — who pursue relationships that are (or should be) illegal. There are also just adults who have been separated for a few years but have a great relationship. What is Mikayla’s situation?
So does the age difference matter?
To be frank, there is no good reason for a 16-year-old to be with a 21-year-old. Something that is legal in Utah doesn’t mean it’s ethical. “Romeo and Juliet” laws make sense so that high school classmates who are dating don’t get arrested when one of them has a birthday — which is obviously not the case with this age difference.
This is not the only one The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives couple with a controversial age gap. However, there are some nuances to Mikayla’s situation. Simply put, what she shared of her backstory shows that age differences were not her biggest concern.
She left her parents’ house when she was 15 and started living with her sister. She met a guy and got pregnant very quickly. Which means that, according to Mikayla herself, TikToka number of things clearly went wrong in her young life before she met her husband.
A 5-year age difference between adults usually doesn’t matter much. Two people in their 20s are almost always social peers. The only concern here is how old Mikayla was when they got together. A 5-year age difference is a life when you are 16 years old.
It is possible that Jace will win The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives spectators. He is handsome, he visual age appropriate for her (now), and he and Mikayla seem to have a good relationship.
Sometimes you shudder at the backstory of a relationship and think, “I think?” in the current state of affairs. It’s not a celebration, but an acceptance of a less-than-pristine love story. Mikayla Matthews and her husband could be one of those couples.