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[quote=Anonymous]PP, I'm not uninformed.  My parents have a large age gap and I see how it plays out with the benefit of a longer-term view that you, yourself, right now, can only try to forecast with your annotated timelines but have not actually seen in reality yet.

That you probably will not be there when your wife enters old age is a problem for HER.  Not for you as a couple. There won't be a couple at that point. So I'm not sure how you make it into a couple problem when it is very clearly your wife's problem.

No one here accused you of bad intentions or of trying to exploit your wife.  My dad didn't have bad intentions toward my mom, and didn't set out to exploit her.  The reality is - with or without your attention - that a large age gap is a better deal for the man and a worse deal for the woman, particularly late in life. The costs and downsides of this arrangement are borne disproportionately by the woman.  This is not bitterness, it's just reality.  Unless, of course, you are so rich that you are able to completely insulate your wife from the need to care for your old age, provide for your young children, and have company late in life.

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