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[quote=Anonymous]All relationships have their issues. As long as you go into this one with your eyes open, you'll be fine. With a significant age difference, the big issues are children, retirement, and eldercare. Does he want children? Even if he wanted children when he was younger, he might not be willing to be a father in his 50s/60s. As an addendum to that, being from an older generation he might have more traditional ideas about childcare and household responsibilities. Can you live with that? As for retirement, will you retire when he retires? If you retire 15 years earlier than intended, will you be able to cover your own old age needs? Lastly, eldercare. Right now, both of you are in physically compatible stages of life. What happens when that's no longer the case? There's a good chance, you'll end up his primary caretaker in his old age. Even if he remains relatively healthy until the end, at some point his physicality will be different than yours because he's older. At 70, he begins to slow down. At 80, he becomes elderly. When you haven't reached these stages in life yet, you might not want to live the life of 70 year old at 55 or 80 year old at 65. Or even the life of a 65 year old at 50. Obviously, anything can happen and nothing is written in stone but these are realistic possibilities. Can you accept that?
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