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age
is 5 years difference in age when the guy is younger a problem, ie. 25 and 30?
Re: age
Call me superficial, but I would not like to be 5 years older than MH.
For someone else, I don't think 5 years is a big deal.
TTC since September 2012
If you actually have ask strangers on the internet if something innocuous is "a problem", then, yes, it is, and you need to move on with your life and find somebody that you don't have to question such stupid things with.
Signed, Somebody who's "Dad" is 5 years younger than her Mom, and married her when he was 25 and she already had 2 kids anyway.
I'm more than willing to start validating people's ideas when they start having ideas worth validating
Only when one of them is a minor
Seriously though no that's not a huge age difference. But like all couples, you need to be on the same page in life.
I do not recommend or advocate a difference of more than 10 years.
I know of a couple where the wife is 15 years older than her H. He was always immature and still is, even now, 11 years into their marriage. He is now 40 years of age.
The only problem that there could be would be a difference in maturity. I think usually it's the other way around where the man is older, because isn't it that men mature slower than women?
If the two have the same maturity level and, as Jemma said, are on the same page, then it shouldn't be a problem.
No, not simply because one is 5 years older than the other. There are other factors that can come into play, such as different maturity levels, different goals in immediate future, different expectations about of each other.
This is a question that only you can answer.
**6.30.12** I have found the one whom my soul loves.
the only time I see it as a problem is when one of the 2 has a problem with it. Other wise it is no one elses business.
DH is 7 yrs younger than me but we met when I was 39, so his 32 wasnt an issue.