And companionship in their own old age. Maybe they'll get lucky and marry again after finishing the raising of the kids, alone... I realize we can all be widowed by accident or disease any time.... and I say that with full sympathy for anyone, especially John, who's lost a spouse. And May-December marriages can be good. I have a good friend of mine who married a man much older than herself, but they met by accident and decided to marry despite the age difference, they didn't seek it out. At 45, she's still happy, but he's inevitably failing... a little senility he'll argue about and deny, hard of hearing... He's becoming old. It's an unavoidably selfish thing to seek to marry someone you you can fully expect to leave alone for the last 15-20 years of their life.
Good point.
Besides, who would want to be married to someone who doesn't know who Jack Wild was (or HR Pufnstuf, for that matter)?
My wife and I are 4 years apart, and even that gets in the way sometimes. She was disco, I was new wave. She was "The 70's", I was post-aids epidemic.
But 4 years is still something that can be overcome.
Most agreed. It's selfish to steal their youth as well.