Posted on 09/10/2019 9:03:59 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Bogart and Bacall
25 years and it was a perfect match.
Doesn’t happen often but it does happen.
That looks expensive!
Boy, that certainly is a healthy, well developed 16 yr. old. They didn’t make them like that in the old days!
I know the “half plus seven” thing. Don’t know where or when I learned it, though.
RE: The total amount of marriages of between 10 and 20 plus years difference in the US is only 7.4% of all marriages.
What really is of interest though is how these large gap marriages are faring compared to the small age difference marriages. Are they more likely to last, or not?
RE: He was 55 and I was 36 when we got married.
And your marriage lasts !! Good on you !! You are one proof that age difference is but a small factor in a successful marriage.
RE: Bogart and Bacall
Well, today, we have Trump and Melania.
This. Hubby is 11 years older than I am. He likes to say "You're only as old as the woman you feel."
Maybe I’m too much of a skeptic. But if there is a considerable age difference in either partner, wouldn’t it instill some sort of doubt as to whether the partner really loves you for you, or for security or monetary reasons?
Does age difference in romantic relationships matter?.
Depends on who has the money.
To go into greater detail would take me time...so I won't.
My main “objection” is incompatibility...more so in her mind than his.
OTOH,expectations of a Ferrari in the driveway on her part = gold digger IMO.
my friend married her husband when she was 25, he 50. Third wife for him, 9 kids.
He’s 88 now, in poor health and refuses to do what he has to do for his health to improve.
She works her tailbone off ( menial jobs, she’s never had a career) to pay for their medications.
He sits at home playing video games, and complains how tired he is when she drags home from work.
So, in retrospect, maybe not the best idea she has ever had.
i like the way you think!
From experience the +20 is one hell of a ride, but not marraige material.
My wife is is nearly 7 years older than I am. Just celebrated our 55th anniversary. We’ve had a great run.
30 being a kid is a tough argument to make.
If you’re a 45-year-old man wanting to start a family, marrying a woman your own age is self-defeating, she’d already be at the end of her childbearing years. You’d get the woman without the most valuable thing a woman brings to a marriage. Man would have to be nuts to look at women any older than 35.
Inflate-O-Bride.
Some of the people saying “But you would have so little in common!” when disapproving of age-gap in couples (who are from the same culture) turn around and see no issues in somebody marrying someone from an entirely different culture.
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