Title: What Really Went Wrong With Jake Gyllenhaal And Taylor Swift?
Headings: What Really Went Wrong With Jake Gyllenhaal And Taylor Swift?
What Really Went Wrong With Jake Gyllenhaal And Taylor Swift?
The age gap
He wasn't ready to commit
They were very off-and-on
He needed more privacy
He flaked out on her birthday party
She may have felt belittled by him
He liked the idea of her, not her
Her parents may not have approved
She took the relationship much more seriously than he did

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By Jessica Sager / May 1, 2017 8:59 pm EDT
Taylor Swift and Jake Gyllenhaal dated from October to December 2010. That's not that long, but in Taylor Swift years, it's practically an eternity. What went wrong with these two " twin fire signs ?" It turns out, a lot. Maybe that's why it's such a touchy subject for him these days! The age gap
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When they dated, Gyllenhaal was 29 to Swift's 20, and by the time they split, he was 30 to her 21. " He said he could feel the age difference," a source told Us Weekly. A source added to Hollywood Life that though Swift was mature for her age, "When Jake broke her heart, she was so inexperienced she didn't know how to deal with it ... She wasn't used to all the head games and the lies, but now she's way less naive."