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what is considered too big of an age difference in marriage?

what is considered too big of an age difference in marriage?
I think 8 years apart is still acceptable but anything more than that in either direction is too much.
LyricalOne · F
Speaking of adults of a legal age of course, I don’t like to put parameters on these things because life has a way of surprising us and challenging our notions. I was ten years older than my late husband and the marriage worked out just fine, the ultimate irony being that he passed away first.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@LyricalOne I never judge anyone else in "May-December" relationships, but I admit that I do often wonder what they could possibly have in common. You being 10 years older than your late husband is understandable to me...I set a 10 year limit on myself because that is what I be most comfortable with personally. Mrsindyjoe is 7 1/2 years younger than me and it works out just fine because we have so much in common, the eras we grew up in overlapped and so we know and remember a lot of the same things, and we also have showed and taught each other many things too (from times I knew before she came along and from times after I had already entered adult hood before her). 10 years is a fair gap to maneuver in.
SW-User
[c=#4C0073]it all depends on personal maturity level, expectations, preferences. And of course, love.
No one can or should dictate what gap is acceptable and what's not.[/c]
@SW-User I think people say that but if someone sees me with a guy 20 years younger/older they would say are you sure you really love him, or he is only in to you because he is using you.
Gothichorror · 22-25, F
I can’t imagine falling for someone then having the ability to change my mind for any reason really. You either enjoy being with them or not.
ThroughMyEyes · 56-60, M
I think any age if it’s true love should not matter to us the two invoked are the ones who make this choice.
indyjoe · 56-60, M
@ThroughMyEyes Age is only a number...and on that alone it should not matter. But there is more involved here than mere numbers. There is a lot more involved that can be impacted by the difference. I'm not saying it can't work because sometimes it does (maybe even many times). But it becomes not just two people chronologically different getting together, but two people raised differently and influenced differently because of the time they came from as well as physical incompatibilities (and I'm not just talking sex which could possibly be an issue too).
Wghtlvr · M
I've heard the "rule" is half the older person's age plus 7 is acceptable.
@Wghtlvr thats a good rule so for me a 24 year old woman the youngest man i could be with is 19. I would not want any younger anyway.
Wghtlvr · M
@Girlyfriendcollecting and the oldest would be 34.
polyandrym66 · 70-79, M
No limits in love.. I love older woman, and the age difference has never proved to be a problem..
indyjoe · 56-60, M
I was always willing to accept up to 10 years in either direction...Not because of the age itself, but I have always found that any gap larger than a decade (and the wider that gap is) greatly reduces what the couple could have in common and also understanding of each other because that moves them into coming from entirely different eras and ways of life.
Read this beautiful story if you take a notion. There was quite a gap in 'their' ages, and that is even[b] more [/b]taboo in China!

https://www.scoopwhoop.com/man-carved-6000-steps-in-mountain-for-woman-he-loved/#.srmoonrd9
I dont know. I think further apart the less you have in common so wont work out but that's not true for everyone. So what works, works.
BrattyMel · 31-35, F
It shouldn’t matter as long as they both truly love and care for one another and want to be with each other genuinely
NiftyWhite · 46-50, F

 
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