The age gap.

[Jefferson Meriwether]

I've occasionally jokingly said I wouldn't date someone more than 8 years younger than me as I wouldn't want a partner who is younger than my Britannia building society account

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

I reckon that to be the first time I have seen a photo of Hugh Heffner wearing clothes.

You need to change your Google search terms

 

[NorthernDave]

Mrs ND is 7 years younger than me - she 19 when we met. We've been together 20 years next month and will have been married for 18 years in September.
So no, age is just a number as far as I'm concerned.

 

[Hover Fly]

That was the thing, when my little brother and I were 8 and 6 my dad was 50 - and 50 in the 1970s was a bit different to 50 now (like wot I is). There was no football in the park and dad games because he had already had his first heart attack.

When my father was 50 I was about 9, he still managed to take us for long walks in the Lake District and bike rides, he always discouraged us from being sedentary. I have a photo of him performing an "inverted cross" between two ropes 10 feet or so from the ground, he would have been 60 at the time. One of the last genuine "Round the Horners" he lived until he was 92. If he had stopped smoking he would have reached 100.

 

[DiddlyDodds]

The wife is 16 years younger then me , and i reminder on a daily basis that when i retire, shes going to be working hard to fund my cycling and garden pottering.

 

[Drago]

My Missus is a decade younger than me and still managed to retire 4 years before I am, and I'm retiring at 48.

 

[derrick]

My better half is 10 years younger than me, But she is defiantly older fitness wise. I retired a little while ago, Poor Debs has at least 10 years before she retires, It's a hard life.















For some,

 

[Incontinentia Buttocks]

My better half is 9 years younger than me, it's bloody great

 

[ColinJ]

Is it possible for the big an age gap between man and wife to be too big?

Yes! (If the gap were too big one way then death of the older partner could be imminent. Too big the other way and the police might want to get involved.)

Somewhere in between - go for it!

(I don't do relationships now but if I did I would probably be with someone reasonably close to my own age, say 55 - 60.)

 

[Speicher]

Yes! (If the gap were too big one way then death of the older partner could be imminent. Too big the other way and the police might want to get involved.)

Somewhere in between - go for it!

(I don't do relationships now but if I did I would probably be with someone reasonably close to my own age, say 55 - 60.)

 

[ColinJ]

 

[RichardB]

My wife is 12 years older than me. None of our friends or relatives have found it an issue (or if they have, they have kept their thoughts to themselves). It's the best relationship I have ever had, and we celebrate our silver wedding next year. I'd say as long as it was legal, the numbers are irrelevant. If you love someone, you love 'em, and that's it.

 

[jefmcg]

I was googling Prince Philip for another thread, and wondered what my parents would have said if I was writing love letters to my 18 year old (somewhat removed) cousin when I was 13.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip,_Duke_of_Edinburgh#Marriage

 

[Milkfloat]

My wife is 3 weeks younger than me - we seem to cope.