"People seemed to feel they had the right to comment on our relationship simply because of the age gap." On the other hand, Sarah Bannister, who has been married for 11 years, has never felt the age gap in her relationship - 15 years - has been an issue: "I'd always liked older men, and there was a 17 year age gap between my parents so it was normal to me.
Amelia was in a relationship with a man 19 years her senior for nearly 3 years.
"After we prayed, Travis took up the courage and said those exact words! "That's what I had been waiting for." Although many of the questions I receive are from women who are considering whether or not to date a younger man, many of the same principles apply to the decision-making process regardless of who's older.
(For the sake of this article, we'll define an age difference as five years or more.) Here are four things to consider: 1. Leah says one of her biggest concerns when considering a man 10 years younger was whether he had the maturity to understand her needs and take care of her.
We lived in the moment and, in hindsight, that probably wasn't very wise." Sarah and her partner have considered the future: "There are going to be obvious physical differences as he gets older, and I know he will probably pass before me, but we are a great partnership and I will always be there for him.
We make it count while we are able and fit to do so." Websites promising "mutually beneficial relationships" are becoming more commonplace in today's society.
I guess it was because I'd heard two or three stories of the woman being seven years older, so I'd sort of decided that was the outer limit of age difference acceptability. (And I would hit 31 a month before his next birthday.) Feeling defeated, I sat at the small wooden table in Starbucks, where I was meeting Kevin for the first time since my startling discovery. In case you're wondering, I married that guy eight months later.
I don't know why this one year made such a difference to me. After spending a few days trying to adjust to the fact that the handsome co-leader of my small group was seven years my junior, I had just realized that he was actually eight years younger!A question I receive often is, "How did you make the decision to date and marry a younger guy?A fifth of a 20 year old’s age would be four years, for example, so they could date someone between 16 and 24 (four years older or younger).Based on this system, someone who’s 60 would have a 12 year margin, so the age range would be 48 to 72. Whether you’d never date a younger man or are considering dating an older women – or vice versa – everyone is sure to have an opinion.