Better looking, fitter, more knowledgeable, better educated and more intelligent, more qualified, more interesting, on a higher salary, funnier (makes more of your friends and family laugh), more streetwise and experienced.
So cool your partner confesses to have lost feelings for you and wants to date them if not smash them relentlessly, and your parents want to adopt them and kick you out to make space for them. If you work with them you get demoted so they can have your position. If you get in the way of their success you get sacked.
Someone who is not just a passing stranger but becomes central to your life and their presence changes the way people view and treat you. Like a long lost hot cousin or new friend.
how would you handle it? Would you feel **** or respect the natural order and accept you have lost the game? Would you hang out with them anyway?
Edit: of roughly the same age or younger. Obviously not a fair comparison in careers between the average 18 y/o and 30y/o