A Matter of Age - Part Two
A couple weeks ago, my husband’s and my friend Alex approached us with an idea. He had a project to do for one of his classes: a human interest article. The article could be on any subject as long as it had the ‘human’ touch. He asked if he could interview us.
The subject? Having a significant age gap in your relationship.
He revealed that he has a girlfriend – ‘Jenny’ – and they are like any other couple except for one thing: She is sixteen years older than he is.
He couldn’t write about his own relationship for the project, so he decided to interview the next significant age gap couple he knew. Fortunately for us, that was my husband and me.
My husband and I were aware of the difference in our ages when we first began falling in love. My husband was a bit hesitant at first, but I showed him that it didn’t matter to me and that it shouldn’t matter to him.
However, no matter how much we are in love, we always have the niggling fear that some people will criticize our relationship just for the fact that we weren’t born closer together in time. We have been pleasantly surprised by the number of people who accept us as we are, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t had some strange looks from people.
Talking about it is one thing, but living the reality is an entirely different matter. While celebrities have the ‘oh, they are just celebrities’ buffers, the everyday people who live in age gap relationships face a different kind of celebrity – and not a good kind.
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:16 pm
Hi,
Very nice blog you have here. Found your blog after searching information for relationships. Thanks for the great info!
My name is Irene and I’m involved in an online site called ‘A woman’s mind at http://awmtv.com which provides videos relating to relationship advice as well as forums, etc.
I was hoping that you would have a minute to check out the site and perhaps if you liked what you saw… put a link on your blog?
I may be going out on a limb by asking you for promotional help through your blog, but I hope you find awmtv.com to be as news worthy/helpful as I perceive it to be. There’s still a lot of new things to come up on it, but hope you like what you see!
Thanks for your time
Best,
Irene
September 7th, 2008 at 6:57 am
Hi Irene,
I’ll check out your site and see what I think.
Cheers,
JM