Does Age Really Matter in a Relationship
By airamtheb
@airamtheb (370)
August 5, 2011 1:20pm CST
Perhaps it does but it depends on the individuals who are into the relationship.What I observed nowadays, a number of couples have wide age gaps yet they managed to keep their relationship for a period of time. Either the man is very much older than the woman, enough to be his daughter or granddaughter or the woman is very much older than the man, enough to be her son. Out society doesn't mind much to an old man-young woman relationship but eyebrows raised to an older woman-young man relationship. The woman would be raising issues on being a cougar or into a kind of oedipal complex relationship.
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8 responses
@sukumar794 (5040)
• Thiruvananthapuram, India
6 Aug 11
Age do not wither one's charm...it depends quite a lot one's own thinking ...you never get old if you think and act as if you are quite young. So it is all a matter of one's own mental make up that matters most.
@nubbu123 (24)
• India
6 Aug 11
Really age is matter for maintaining any relationship apart from your family relationship. If you want to start any relationship and you are young, it will some immaturity in your relationship but if are mature, your relationship will standard and professional this is because you have experience of life.
@marguicha (215723)
• Chile
6 Aug 11
There can be some issues when there´s a wide age gap between partners, but then some same age partners have other problems. Society is chenging and those standards will slowly change too. I had a BF once, after I became a widow, that was old enough to be my father and although we had age gap problems, I think the worst was a cultural one. I know a couple in which the lady, now in hr 80s, is old enough as to be the husband´s mother. He still worships her. But then, she is a grand lady, one of our countries best folklorists and singers.
In both cases, the relations are more complex than age so that age is just one of the variables.
@tenrajj (911)
• Bhutan
6 Aug 11
yes as you said, it depends upon the individuals. I saw lots of couples with large differences in their age. More than 20 years. Looking at them I think they are the real people who has understood what the real love is. Most of the people will think that age really matters in relationship.
Age does not matter in relationship religiously, spiritually and socially but it would affect practically, economically, materialistically. Even I think that age should matter in relationship but I am not sure how far it would happen. How practical that i think would be.
@tears08 (161)
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5 Aug 11
hmmm relationship.. normally you are in serious relationship it means "love" is their.. so in love.. there is no age.. just like what they say, age doesn't matter, what matters is the happiness that you feel with each other.. yes you are right there are so many people who would criticize you so easily when they saw you are with someone older than you.. especially if it is the girl older than the guy
@pretiNAS (66)
• Philippines
6 Aug 11
Age doesn't matter as long as the couple understand each other. They both know what they are doing and mature enough in their relationship. If they are both happy then it won't be a matter to them. relationship is formed due to love and mutual understanding, regardless of age.
@maezee (41997)
• United States
5 Aug 11
I feel like the society I live in is similar but depends on the person in particular - some people look down on a couple who have a HUGE age gap - regardless of which gender or person is older. I personally like older guys... Maybe by 5-10 years but that's probably the furthest I would go. I think love comes in all shapes, sizes (and ages I suppose LOL) but it would be scary to think of for example, me dating a 40 year old (20 years older than me) that I really loved, because I would be afraid of him aging and getting senile and even dying and us not being able to share the experience of 'growing old' together, you know?
