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Logged on the computer and there's an article on MSN homepage about an older guy regretting marrying a much younger woman. I was expecting at least a 15+ age gap but it turned out it was only 11 years. I thought it was bit of an exaggeration but I guess the more exaggerated the headline the more clickbaits it gets, which got me. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/...tanntp#image=1
I do acknowledge there are problems with huge age gaps but 11 is borderline to me.
Don't ask Pres. Trump for his opinion, it might be different than what most of us consider to be a big deal.
A 11 year age difference is more of a big deal for people who are younger. An age 21 person with an age 32 partner would feel like a huge age gap, because the age 21 person is just entering into the adult years of their life and the age 32 partner is getting into the prime years of their adult life. There is a big maturity gap there. If both partners are in their later adult years (60 plus) there is not a huge maturity gap.
When I was about age 36, I dated a woman who was 42. We both shared a lot of common interests and communicated well. The 5-6 year age difference was not a big deal.
I am in a new relationship with a woman who is 7 years younger than I. I am 64, she is 57. We are both fit, trim, active and in good health. I would be less comfortable in a relationship with a woman who was 11 or more years younger than me, because we would be at different stages in our adult lives.
Logged on the computer and there's an article on MSN homepage about an older guy regretting marrying a much younger woman. I was expecting at least a 15+ age gap but it turned out it was only 11 years. I thought it was bit of an exaggeration but I guess the more exaggerated the headline the more clickbaits it gets, which got me. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/lifestyle/...tanntp#image=1
I do acknowledge there are problems with huge age gaps but 11 is borderline to me.
I do consider an 11 year age gap big. But big doesn't mean bad, necessarily. My girlfriend is 15 years older. That's a big age difference, but we still click really well.
I remember one of the last women I dated before meeting my wife was eight years younger than me. I still don't know how it happened. But on our third or fourth date, I realized that she and I were on completely different planets in terms of what we wanted in life, and all of those differences were pretty much driven by age.
If my wife were hit by a bus and I could scrape myself off the floor enough to even consider being with another woman, I'm pretty sure that I would choose her based on what we had in common, how well we clicked, and what our life goals were.
Eight to ten years is probably loosely my personal line of what constitutes a significant age difference in a romantic relationship, so, yeah. It's more noteworthy at certain life stages than others, but by any measure, for me, floating around a decade is significant.
An 11-year age gap is significant. Early 20s is still in the party years whereas early 30s is settling down. Early 40s is squarely in middle age, but early 30s is just starting out on a serious adult life. Early 50s is starting to take a hard look at retirement and the "golden years." Early 60s is either retired or wants to be. In order for a relationship with this much of an age gap to work, one of them is going to have to be prematurely old or immature.
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