Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What is the purpose of this?
Fun. And curiosity.
DH just turned forty and had a physical today. I'm 6 years younger and never thought that was a big difference, but after hearing about his physical and his colonoscopy consultation, I'm thinking it seems like a big gap in our current ages.
DH's parents are 8 years apart and mine are 7 (DHs are older). So it made me wonder
if other people marry with similar age differences as their parents.
Absolutely not!! My father is 10 years older than my mother, and often treated her like a child. As I went on in life, I also came to feel that men's presumptions of entitlement to younger, prettier women were bogus.
My DH is about a year older than I. We are almost alone among our acquaintances, most of whom have 4 or 5 year differences between partners... but always in the husband's favor. Pisses me off, actually. I joke that if my DH and I met today, I'd be considered too old for him at 39 to his 40. He'd be expected to find someone OP's age!