I want to wish you luck or at least wish you well, but I can't wish that on a woman. I know we disagree, but I'm a firm believer that May-December relationships are absolute hell on the younger party once the aged member of the relationship truly gets old.
I'm 42, and I could easily keep up with a woman of 22. However, when I'm 72 and she's 52, her life would just suck to high heaven. She'd still be young and vital, and stuck to a guy playing connect the liverspots in the mirror.
It is stealing their youth.
A woman I used to ride home with on the train from work was in a relationship like that. Her husband was really beginning to age and slow down (he was 20 years her senior), and she confessed to me that she was no longer attracted to him.
One doesn't fall in love with an age, one falls in love with a human being with a soul.
Age is only important if you make it an issue.
My 94 year old neighbor passed away this year. She was a medical doctor and a painter. She left behind her husband of 27 years who is 62. He is a professor of music and a church organist. They were a happy devoted couple who had a beautiful life together.
BTW She lost her first husband when she was forty three...he was only 45 and he died,
Death and loss can occur at any age.
True love is eternal and does not fade with age.
Barring accidents or diseases brought on by stupid behavior (excessive drinking etc) my family on both sides is extrememly long lived. My dad is 78 or so and still in perfect health. Walks 5 miles a day and then walks the golf course or goes bowling. Strong as a horse. My mom's maternal Grandma and my dad's maternal grandma both lived into their hundreds, both in good health all the way. (In fact cataracts killed my dad's grandma. She was as solid as a brick house and loved to do needlework. When she lost her eyes she lost her will to live and died within a year.) Rest of family, mom, aunts uncles etc, all doing well also.
I am in pretty good shape and getting in better shape every day (walk a lot, drink a lot of water, losing weight (I'm down 17, only 23 more to go) work out daily). With proper diet and exercise, and proper attention to one's health and lifestyle there's no reason someone shouldn't be able to live well into their 90's.
But beside all that, If the lady wants to marry someone older who she loves why stand in her way? Age discrimination. "Sorry ma'am but you can't marry someone more than ten years older than you"
Also there are no promises. I married a wonderful woman who was 5 years younger than me. Now she's in heaven and I'm a widower. Age doesn't make a difference in God's plan.