I (18F) and my older (52M) — not too sure of what to call him since we don’t exactly have a label yet. Have been arguing quite a lot over his attempted mentorship.

Of course, he has more life experience than I do but sometimes I get so frustrated when he gives me his advice or turns everything into a maturity issue — for instance we argue, he usually calls me childish or implies that I have no life experience/ cannot understand what I’m talking about.

I know he doesn’t have bad intentions when he does this but it gets so frustrating and can be so off-putting to me, I know a common aspect of age gaps is the mentorship role the older partner takes but it feels pretty belittling — I expect that from my parents not from him.

I’m not sure how to tell him his opinion in that regard is meaningless without sounding like I’m arrogant.

EDIT: typo