![]() ![]() "My boyfriend is 15 years older I’m 33 (female). I didn't date him for the money, but it is kind of nice to feel stable and secure."ġ9. "I have never had the chance to own a home or land, but he already has more than one house and car for himself (he's a lawyer, and I'm a nurse). I am just really beginning to start my life." Also, we are financially in completely different places. Some people are understanding, but others can be real jerks about it. Also, his friends are all older, so when we hang out with his friends, I am usually the youngest one there by far. I guess you can attribute this to personality differences, but I feel that he is just more tired generally. For instance, I often want to go out with him to a bar or club, but he would rather stay home and watch something on Netflix and cuddle. However, there are times when our energy levels or plans are not on the same page. "My boyfriend is 15 years older than me (34-year-old male), and I love him dearly. It just worked out really well for us."ġ4. We’ve had a very fulfilling lifetime together so far and still have so much time left. "Now that our kids are all older, he’s getting ready to retire, and we’re really looking forward to him living a long, full, young retirement - a whole new life together! He has some health issues now that he’s in his 50s, and I’ve been a stay-at-home mom due to a lifetime of chronic illness and ongoing health issues myself, but we’re taking care of each other now and learning to navigate this next phase. And of course, when I talk about being a kid, and he was basically an adult already." It’s been over 20 years now, and the only problem with our age difference is when he talks about things he did when he was young, and we realize I was an infant, or in kindergarten, or in middle school. He was finally ready to settle down, and I was once I found the right person. He was 30, and I was 22, but we happened to be in the same stages and phases in life despite that age difference. "My husband is eight years older than me, which isn’t significant, but it seemed so when we met. Ultimately, I think he’d have followed me and been there to support me, but we had other issues, and it ended."ġ2. But I still had so much to do, and it made it difficult to stay on the same wavelength. And that’s fine! He didn’t need to progress anymore - he’d done that. "He wanted to go out more and saw no real need to move to somewhere with better prospects, to learn, to progress. He’d already done all that, and he was happy to just…chill." I was career-driven, I was chasing success, I was careful about things. In my case, I felt like I was just getting started, and he’d given up. The younger is immature, spontaneous, doesn’t want to keep their feet on the ground. Everyone talks about how large age gaps don’t work because you’re both in such different places the older one is mature, ready to buy the big house and invest, career-driven and enjoying success. The biggest difference for me was actually the opposite of what you’d expect. ![]() "I’m no longer with him, but I was in an age-gap relationship when I was 21 (female), and he was 52 (male). ![]()
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