I will be 66, and she will be 29 when we get married next year. I have a friend who has a similar age gap in his marriage, and when I saw them together recently, I got a little bit sick. Would that be a problem for you? What if you were the woman? Would you get tired of the older man after a while and leave him? What about my family and friends? Should I expect jokes and teasing? Please treat this as a serious thread because she has a 6-year-old son, and I have no children.
Good for the man if he's happy and for the woman it's probably embarrassing but perhaps she's in a desperate place/has mental or emotional problems or fell for the first man who pampered her. But again, for the man it can be great. He will get flack from people but the truth is a lot of them are jealous. There's a lot of miserable people out there looking to criticize people who are happy.
It would only be embarrassing if you were marrying her for an embarrassing reason. If you are marrying each other for good reasons there is nothing to be embarrassed about. You should also be too old to care about other people’s opinions about something so pivotal to your happiness. Or some good natured joking either. Own it. Laugh at the jokes as long as they are good natured and don’t put up with any negative, judgemental bs either. It will mostly be coming from a place of envy or jealousy anyway, for men. Or unhappy, b1tchy women looking for some reason to b1tch and gossip.
All the best to you and your future wife. Hope it works out excellently for you.
That's exactly what the miserable/jealous people will label him but secretly a lot of them would go for it if they were in the same position, just too incapable--not rich or game with the ladies or they're stuck in a miserable relationship they pretend to like.
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If you and your wife are happy, willing adults - then why would you be embarrassed by a ridiculous social convention that's only proliferated by small-minded people who immiserate themselves by adherence to such nonsense.
You should be embarrassed for the people that tease you, as this is clearly a manifestation of their jealousy.
I will be 66, and she will be 29 when we get married next year. I have a friend who has a similar age gap in his marriage, and when I saw them together recently, I got a little bit sick. Would that be a problem for you? What if you were the woman? Would you get tired of the older man after a while and leave him? What about my family and friends? Should I expect jokes and teasing? Please treat this as a serious thread because she has a 6-year-old son, and I have no children.
Which third world country is she from? Have you met in person yet?
Alternatively, whats wrong with her that she can't find a man, other than one from a demographic that would usually be a grandfather to her, giving her wise advice on how ro about making mistakes in her life?
I've only seen it the other way around - a guy I know married a woman 21 years older than him. He is a particularly cowardly type of guy who likes to have a mother figure in the background looking after him while he flirts with women nearer his own age, on the premises that he must be "lonely" by having such an older spouse. Increasingly, I believe he cheats in his wife, and she tolerates it because she's old and just wants companionship. They married 2 years ago.