Spousal Age Difference

[Redguard]

What's the difference in age between you and your spouse?

Also, do you think there comes a time when the difference in age causes you to become 'concerned'?

For example, when a 50 yr old man is marrying a 20 yr old woman? (Just an example, not meant to offend any 50 yr old men currently married to 20 yr old women)

 

[fruitrach]

My husband is 1 year and 46 days older than me.

I've dated mostly older men in the past, the greatest difference being 10 years. I also dated one younger guy, only a year younger though.

It's hard to say on the age difference thing as people are all so different. There's so much more to it than age - maturity, situation, needs, intentions, motivations, existing family, history.....

 

[Redguard]

Here's an article that prompted my question:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20041203.wxstabbing1203/BNStory/Front

...not that the murder had anything to do with their ages. It's just that I couldn't help but feel a bit of shock when I saw the age difference. He could've been her father.

 

[Redguard]

I'm 1 year, 25 days older than my wife.

 

[LavendarVanilla]

I am 6 months and 4 days older than my husband.

 

[selune]

I'm just shy of 7 months younger than my husband.

 

[LiberatedChick]

My husband is 2.5 months older than me.

 

[andiesmama]

I am 5 1/2 years older than my husband!!

 

[Zoomer]

I am a year and a half younger than my husband. He's 26 and I am 24.

 

[redwing030]

My husband is 3.5 years older than me. We NEVER notice our age difference. It's kind of funny because we'll see our friends dating someone and feel like he's too old for her, but then we realize that we have the same age difference, if not more

 

[Tumburu]

I'm 6 years older then my fiancee. I never really notice the difference until I try and talk to her about the cool cartoons I watched as a kid. She never has any idea what I'm talking about...

 

[dulcinea]

My husband is 3 1/2 years older than me.

 

[mcb1998au]

My hubby is 8 years older than me. My younger brother is 29 and his girlfriend is 48 strangely enough they have been together for almost 3 years and that is the longest he has stayed with anyone.

 

[Sun_flwer]

My husband is 6.5 yrs older than me.

 

[Busybee]

My hubby is about 3 months 2 weeks older than I am.

Also, do you think there comes a time when the difference in age causes you to become 'concerned'?

For example, when a 50 yr old man is marrying a 20 yr old woman? (Just an example, not meant to offend any 50 yr old men currently married to 20 yr old women)

To answer your other question, I think that as long as both parties are old and mature enough to deal with the age difference then it should be fine (for instance, no straight out of highschool person with someone who's been out for 20 years ). Also as long as neither party is looking at their mate as a "trophy spouse", then Lord bless them and their relationship. That's my personal opinion though, and I'm sure there's someone out there who may have been straight out of highschool with a much older spouse, who made it work, but for me that's the main time I'd be "concerned", other than being underaged but that goes without saying lol.

 

[okiemommy26]

My hubby is 5.5yrs older than me

 

[LegacyOfLove]

My hubby is just 3 months and 7 days older than I am!

 

[charligirl]

My husband is 12 years older than me, don't ever notice the age gap to be honest. I think it could have been an issue if I was 18 and he was 30, but I was 32 and he was 44 when we met.

BY the time I passed 30 I was fed up with the things I used to like in my 20's anyway and seemed to have started morphing into my mother

 

[`Raine]

My husband is 9 1/2 years older than me.

When we first started dating, I was 19 and he had just turned 29. I don't think we would have gotten together if we'd have known eachother's ages at the time, but we knew we were right for eachother very quickly, so by the time it came up, it was something we could overlook. My parents thought it was a little odd when I first told them we were dating, and how old he was, but they changed their minds when they saw us together. Most of my freinds have alwys been older, so it wasn't really an adjustment for me, although we do pick on eachother a little about the age differences at times.

 

[mathias1979]

My wife is 2.5 years younger.

-Matt