25 things that couples with major age differences know

Which couples of May-December know that the rest of us do not do it.


Harrison Ford andCalista Flockhart.Beyonce andJay Z.Blake andRyan Reynolds. These are just some of theCelebrities A-List who have a gap of more than ten yearsAnd they are some of the most loved and respected couples in Hollywood. Their unions live the proof that, when it comes to the age of love is really a number.

So, read to find out what these couples - and others with a major age difference - know the love that the rest of us do not do it.

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Social stigma wears you

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AStudy 2006 found that "people generally disapprove the relationships in which a partner is significantly older than the other" and that this social disapproval has a negative impact on the relationship. However, it also noted that "marginalized partners appear to offset investment deficits by perceive the quality of alternatives to their current relationships and poor, thus strengthening commitment to their current partners."

Which means that while knowing your friends and family, you undoubtedly judge a toll on things, once you are considering what life could be like someone else, your wedding is even stronger.

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Your mental age is more important than your chronological age

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We all met people who are in fifty, but do not seem to be different from the 23-year-old, you catch brunch with the weekend. We also met with people who are 20 years old who seem to be born from reading on a chair with arms in a smoking jacket. With regard to a marriage that has a great gap, your mental age can often be more important than in which decade you are born. I saw couples with significant age differences bridge this deficit, "expert in relationRachel A. SusssmanRecountInsist. "[I] think it works well when the cadet partner is very mature for his age and that the older partner is playful and maybe a little immature."

"I'm 42 years old, she is 22,"A user wrote on Reddit. "She is rather mature for her age. We have very few problems or disagreements. We have been together for 3 years and I have just proposed it to her. It would not work if she was not so mature Already. And no, it has nothing to do with a crisis of mid-life. I have never been happier in a relationship. "

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The older you are, the easier it is

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The search found That the age gap between a 20-year-old child can cause more problems than the gap between, for example, 50 years old and aged 70. The theory is that this is due to the vast Gulf in stages of life among the old group. If a person always wants to go out all the time and the other is in a life phase where he wants to spend more time at home, this can cause problems. These potential problems, however, decrease with age.

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It is better not to think too much about it

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In a reddit thread on couples with major age differences,A user wrote from her husband, 12 years old his senior, "there is really not much of the difference. Other than the fact that he is much more mature than anyone who I dated. Only a weird thing is when we think about how he was while I was 8. "When I was 24 years old, I dated a child of 34 years old and everything was fine and well until we were 18 years old when he sawTitanic And I was eight hours. Better do not live on this.

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Older does not mean wiser

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"My husband and I were 19 years of interval; we were 21 and 40 when we started getting out of the meeting. It works because I gave up the notion that because I was older, I knew better and How to love or guide a relationship better than him, "Carol, 54,RecountInsist.

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Sexual differences count

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A reddit user wroteThat her husband is nine years older than her, and everything is great, except for her decrease in libido. "I am now at the age he was when we met for the first time (I'm 31 years old) and I feel like I'm in my peak but we just do not do it as if we planes made when he was 31, "she wrote. This is a common problem with couples in May-December, but it also wrote that it "10/10 would do it despite it" because "it's a big husband and father." After all, it's not all about sex and tends to go down for most couples after a while, anyway.

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It's not so different from a traditional relationship

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"Jake and I have been together for more than 21 years. Our age difference has never been a question," Keith, 42,RecountInsist. "No matter the age difference, you both must accept for whom you are, including all these things that lead you absolutely bonkers (reminding you that the grass is always greener until you arrive on this side; it's when you realize his own weeds). It's about compromising, being honest and communicating about what you feel, and from time to time from what you were doing some something you would prefer not to do (nor normally). "

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He can make you feel younger

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"Currently, I'm eight years older than my fiancee and who has upsides"A reddit user wrote. "I am the elderly person sharing the wisdom and advice if necessary and it's cool. Life is interesting because I'm basically a living station in front of it all the time. When she was in college, I'm just graduated. When she started her career, I had just landed my first "real job". And so on. It just prevented me feeling useful and prevented me from feeling younger than my years. "

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But the question of children can be a problem

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Thesame user reddit wrote that his "organic clock started to checknoisily In recent years and she always tries to decide if she is ready for children and such. I fully understand his hesitation, but there is a voice in my screaming head that I'm running out of time to be dad as she was still preparing. This is perhaps one of the most important problems we are currently facing in our relationship, but because it's not a "day up-to-date" problem, we do not approach it much. »

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It's easier to go out with an older man

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He feels horrible to admit, butStudies have shown That women are happier with older male partners than the opposite. The theory behind this is that, from an evolutionary perspective, women are more popular for their appearance, which are thought to diminish with age, while men are worth more for their resources, which generally increase in as they get older.

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Women who marry older men are not necessarily troubled

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A2016 F0UND study This, despite the stereotype, "74% of women in relations with age-gap were firmly attached" and "the common belief that women who choose many more older partners because of" Papa problems ". were unfounded. " Love is love.

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Do new things together is important

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The novelty keeps you young. "Tom and I are in a long distance relationship (he is in England and I am in the United States)," Reyna, 46,RecountInsist. "We are doing a month in London, one in America (New York and Miami), then encounter fun places in the world between the two. This too can help our relationship to work; it's always new and fun and exciting."

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There is the truth to the old rule

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You know that if you want to know if anyone is old enough to date, divide halfway and add seven years? Well,According to a user redditThere is truth to that. "My personal experience is that the half-life-over seven-seven rule seems commonplaced. A big age difference is not in itself problematic. But once you get to the point of two different generations (for example, average age + teen) the obstacles to overcome are very important. "

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It's more difficult for older women than their partner

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Hugh Jackman and his wife,Furness Deborra-LeeWe have been fortunately married for nearly 23 years now, and Jackman rarely misleads the opportunity to gusgir in interviews. In spite of this, people act as if it were strange that his wife was 13 years older than him, even going so far as to say that their marriage is a simulacrum. This is obviously incredibly offensive to the forks (and women everywhere, really), who saidWeekly Australian womanShe considers it a "putdown" that people talk about how "lucky" she is to have married a beautiful younger man.

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You are in the minority

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There are many countries in which to have a large gap is considered normal. But research shows that onlyeight percent Married couples have an age difference of 10 years or more in Western society, making you a member of a relatively small club if you are in a relationship of May-December. It should be noted that this statistic applies only to heterosexual relationships, as there has been limited research on the gaps in homosexuals, the numbers are therefore likely to be higher than that in the real life.

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Stereotypes are really bad

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According toto a 2018 studyThe reason people often consider marriages with suspicious large age gaps are because they perceive them as "exchange-based" rather than "basic care". This means that people always make the hypothesis extremely unfair that couples with large gaps are in it for something other than love (that is to say money in exchange for sex). Surprisingly, the study also found that young people are more likely to be judged by these couples than older people, despite the reputation they have to be more open to non-traditional relationships than previous generations.

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You have to ignore enemies

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Josh HetheringtonA family therapist and Chicago's relationships stated that couples with important gaps often have to face people who assume that the older part is the parent rather than the spouse, who can be really uncomfortable . As such, these couples must get "beyond the meaning of how it looks like paper". It's not an easy task but you can useKatharine McPhee as inspiration. When the 34-year-old actress announced that it was engaged in a 68-year-old music producerDavid FosterShe postedA tweet sassy which included an emoji ring and a gif ofAriana Grande saying: "And what about it?"

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Empathy is the key

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Heatheringtonsaid The fact that one of the most important challenges with age differences is confronted with what they can have trouble dealing with the experiences of others. "What I see most is that the younger person will face a challenge that the elderly person has already been confronted and surmounted, and they will have trouble empathizing with that person," he said . "There must be an opening to the idea that everyone is adult. You have to try to understand that, instead of removing stuck where you see yourself in someone and your own experience." Good advice for any couple, really!

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The age gap could work in your favor

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Research on this subject is conflictual.A recent study I found that a 10-year difference makes you 39% more likely to divorce than if you had no age difference. But even the authors of the study admitted that this does not necessarily mean that the age gap is the question. "It could be simply that the types of couples with these characteristics are the types of couples that are on average more likely to divorce for other reasons", principal authorHUGO MALON noted. Andanother studyfound that age-GAP couples reported higher levels of relational satisfaction, greater confidence and increased confidence and lower levels of jealousy. Given the lack of concrete evidence and the number of factors that come into the manufacture of marriage work, there is little suggest that the age gap plays a large part of a role in your risk of divorce.

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You may not make you refer the references of each

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Another common complaint from age age couples is that you can not always get partner's pop culture references or music and film preferences. But, again, there are many elderly people who are quite tasty culturally, and many souls of older old ages. So, again, your mental age is what really matters here.

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Have common interests is the key

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"My ex was 12 years older than I was when I was 25,"A reddit user wrote. "Is not it big for me since I've always preferred the older in any case and that we had a lot in common. The strangest thing for me was when I filled my passport request, I put the Date of my mother of birth and he was closer to my mother than me. I also dated a 34-year-old guy when I was 19 years old. It was a lot more strange and I was Much more immature at that time (obviously). We had nothing in common. "

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You have a sense of humor about it

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Another excellent way to deal with the social stigma to be in a marriage with a big difference of age is to joke about it both inside and outside the relationship. "I lost the trace of how many times I was called the parent of my wife," Julie, 60,noted from his marriage to Brandi 39 years old. "When my brother-in-law teases me teashed to steal the cradle, I replied," Are you kidding? She pleasant? She stole the old house. "

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It's not an easy decision

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One of the most controversial couples in recent years is the French presidentEmmanuel Macron and his wife,Macron Brigitte-Tariently due to the fact that, at age 65, the first lady was almost 25 years older than her 41-year-old husband. Their romance is also considered scandalous because they met when she was a teacher of Macron in high school and she was married at the time. As such, she resisted their undeniable attraction, but the macron was resolved. Before being essentially exiled in Paris in its last year, itapparently told him, "You do not get rid of you. I'll come back and I'm getting married."

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But it could be the best you never make

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In 2006, Brigitte finally divorced her husband and married Emmanuel the following year. In 2017, the first French ladyRecountElapse That "" there are moments in your life where you have to make vital choices. And for me, it was there. So what has been said over the 20 years, it's insignificant. Of course, we have the breakfast together, me and my wrinkles, he with his youth, but it's like that. If I had not made that choice, I would have missed my life. I had a lot of happiness with my children and, at the same time, I felt to live "this love" as the habit of saying: to be fully happy. "Their union seemingly blessed, and the united franchise they present in the face of controversy, can very well do much to reduce the stigma of age-gap relations in the future (cross-fingers).

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At the end of the day, the age gap does not matter

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Experts say that with regard to marriage, the important thing is to have the same fundamental values ​​andbe a good team. So, while being in a marriage with a big age difference can come with its own set of challenges, as long as you have chosen the right person, nothing prevents you from doing you for the long term.

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