Dating someone 30 years older

What’s It Really Like To Be In A Relationship With A Considerable Age Gap?

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. In the summer, in the south of France, my husband and I like to play, rather badly, the lottery. I purchase scratch-offs, jackpot tickets, scraping the former with euro coins in restaurants too fine for that. I never cash them in, nor do I check the winning numbers. For I already won something like the lotto, with its gifts and its curses, when he married me. He is ten years older than I am. I chose him on purpose, not by chance. As far as life decisions go, on balance, I recommend it.

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Wellness » Love. We are seeing large age gaps in the dating pool and not just the typical old-man-younger-woman narrative. For example, a AARP study reported that 34 percent of women over 39 years old were dating younger men. Add in the popularization of divorce over the last 50 years and the introduction of dating apps and matters of love, sex, and how we connect are utterly transformed. Love is a melting pot. I find it refreshing that society has begun to validate the simple fact that relationships no matter how short or long can still be meaningful.

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The reality of an age gap relationship: life with my husband who is 35 years older

When I started dating my husband back in , we'd known each other for several years. Actually, his brother married my sister, which is how we met. That presents its own challenges, but we also have a year age gap. Our age-gap relationship brought its own challenges, too, although I didn't really anticipate them when we first started dating. Here's what I wish I knew about age-gap relationships back then.

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