Is Age Difference Important?

[echnidna]

Ozwinner gave the stimulation to post this poll.
He was astounded that a member's wife was in his daughters class at school.
So lets see what everyone thinks!

[Sir Stinkalot]

How old was the member?

By reading the post it would appear as if the member is the same age as Ozwinner with the wife being the same age as his daughter. Is this correct?

[ozwinner]

I found out it was his daughter. :eek:

How that works I dont know? :confused:
How can you marry your own daughter? :confused:

And Stinky, my member is the same age as me.

Al

[Sir Stinkalot]

I did feel uncomfortable talking about your member in such a public forum

[Robert WA]

Who gives a damn about age difference. Happily married for almost 38 years. Back then she was 4 years younger than me. The difference has stretched out a bit since.

My wife says she should have married a man with whom she had something in common.

C'mon old girl, we have plenty in common. To start with, each of us was married on the same day.

[echnidna]

my member is the same age as me

after you telling us what you wear in your workshop in another thread could you explain how you use it in your workshop?

[echnidna]

After telling us that I'm sure the ladies would find you a lot of fun!!

[RETIRED]

Keep it clean and witty.

[AlexS]

Back on topic...had a friend at uni whose marriage to a bloke about her age broke up when she was about 40. after a couple of false starts she took up with a bloke 19...her son was 15...which she reckoned was terrific. But she ditched him after a while & the next partner was in his late 50s. Think she's moved on to someone else now.

Another friend was widowed in her 30's, and remarried after a few years. At 41, she had a new baby...a month after her first grandson was born....but that WAS in Tasmania.

[echnidna]

Des O'connor the english singer is 72.
His wife is 35 and expecting.
She's younger than his daughters.
But he doesn't look his age, reckon his lady keeps him young.

[Kev Y.]

I wanted to vote C and D, alays remember that you are only as young as the woman you are with ( I am cleaning this up for Robbos sake)

and for the record.. my current female "companion", was 9 years old when I was 21!!! but now it doesn't make so much difference.

Kev

[jackiew]

my boyfriend is 8 years younger than me and mostly I don't think about it the only time it has really bothered me was first time I had to meet his family (in case they freaked out - they didn't).

I think I might once have gone out with a guy who was older than me but mostly my boyfriends have been younger. I have a theory ( which is probably not capable of being proved ) that guys who are my age or older might in principle like the idea of capable confident women but would prefer not to go out with one . Remember that I am of the generation where a lady bus driver still excited comment, girls weren't allowed to do woodworking at school and friends of the family were bemused that I was going to university because it would be wasted on me, holding up the example of another girl who was already working and who had a boyfriend "who has a car!!!!" as something I should be aiming at :confused:

I wouldn't rule out going out with someone 10 years older than me but I doubt if it will happen. But if it works for other couples then all power to them is what I say.

[silentC]

My wife is one year older than me (almost to the day). It's good to be that close in age in some ways because our childhood memories are all very similar and we can identify on a lot of things, similar taste in music etc.

Personally, I don't think it matters one iota. It can be a bit sad in later life though, if one partner is quite a bit older than the other. A friend of a friend is about to lose her husband of many years to asbetos related cancer. He is in his seventies, she's only early forties. That can happen to anyone though, regardless of age.

[PAH1]

In my family we have the whole range and I am the only one that married "traditionally". I am married to a woman 5 years younger, my brothers 1 year and 8 years older woman, my sister a guy 12 months younger. Doesn't really matter what it is as it is between the people involved.

The odd thing is that unmarried women live longer, unmarried men live shorter, men who marry woman more than twelve months older live only as long as unmarried men.

[echnidna]

"The odd thing is that unmarried women live longer, unmarried men live shorter, men who marry woman more than twelve months older live only as long as unmarried men."

Ahhh. another very good reason for my move from swmbo #2 to #3