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Mark, 57, met Sarah, 45, at a conference at the age of 33 and was 22 years old, and they immediately hit him despite an age difference of age. At the time, they lived on opposite coasts, so they did itlong distance For several years before deciding to get married. For a long time, their age gap did not seem to be a problem. They both wanted enough to have children, their sex life was amazing and they are connected to "all levels".

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"When we met for the first time, I was a kind of immature for my age and was quite mature for his age, so we often met in the middle," he says.

But after almost 25 years of wedding, everything broke down. Read to find out what the challenges are confronted as a man who married a much younger woman and why he finally shelters the regrets. And hear the back of the equation, read howThis woman married an older man and regrets.

Studies have shown that there is still a lot of social stigma surrounding age - aged relationships and the youngest, more surprising, are more likely than elderly people to assume that the association of partners in different Stages of life is a relationship based on foreign exchange (ie, in exchange for resources) rather than once on love.

"She came from a much richer family than me, so I did not have any resources to bring to the table," he says. "But I certainly felt this judgment in the first year we were together. When I talked about her, there was definitely that sense of my friends from:" Come on, she is 12 years old less than you. What are you doing here? What are you doing here? "There was less than that when we got married because we were then together several years, then we moved into a city where most of our friends were artists who were directed all kinds of alternative lifestyles and were more open minded on the hole. "

Many people in relationships with significant age differences complain that the stereotypes that people surround them are particularly mean. If you are a young man with an older woman-AsHugh Jackman andFurness Deborra-Lee-PEOPLE thinks that the man must be "in the closet". If you are an older man with a younger woman, everyone supposes she's just with you for money. Mark felt that the stereotype constantly as they were together and he knows he haunts him when he speaks even now.

"There is no way that anyone reading it will say something other than" Oh, here is this old Schmuck who has made a trophy woman. "But she was an extraordinary person and I totally fell for her and her for me. I recently found a box of old love letters that we sent ourselves, and we really liked it."

Like any married couple who has been together for more than a decade, Mark and Sarah had their problems. But he was shocked when two years ago, she revealed that she had beenhave an affair For almost a year. He was even more surprised when, a few months later, she announcedShe wanted a divorce.

"I knew we had problems, but I thought they did not add something overwhelming," he says. "I thought we were strong rock."

Unfortunately, this is not uncommon, since women initiate up to 80% of divorces - andMen often do not see the signs to come.

The fact that Sarah left him for a man closer to her at the age of her night.

"She hit several times that her age had nothing to do with anything," he says. "But it's one of those things that come into your head and you can not go out."

The brand has been devastated by divorce and one of the things that made it even more difficult was the awareness that it was suddenlyRe-penetrate the dating pool As a much older man than when he left it.

"When you're married for so long, you're really thinking about age. So, one of the things on the break that was difficult was that I suddenly realized," Oh Dude, I'm old. "

And, in addition to that, it felt unfair that his wife is not only "replaced" "replace it" but also dating with an age benefit much better than him.

"She exploded our lives and she has a lot more time to rebuild her than me," he says.

Mark moved to another city and "landed feel broken and spent [his] expiry date." But, as it turns out, he still has a lot of mileage.

As a well-considered artist and very attractive man, he had a lot of success on the online dating circuit and even started seeing someone regularly who is much closer to his age than his wife. When I ask if he finally believes that someone's wife who is significantly older or less than you are a bad idea, he says that "it depends on the couple" and that a gap between A 20-year-old person and 30 is "almost insignificant."

But at the same time he also recognizes that if he fell in love with someone who was at the beginning of the 30 years now, he would be very worried about letting it turn into something serious.

"If I were seriously involved with someone younger and younger now, I would always think:" I got older here. "She would be in the great life of her life and I would be an old man. I love my child but I do not want anymore. And I no longer want to deprive her of anything." And for more information on rising and Disadvantages of an age gap relationship, check these25 things that couples with major age differences know.

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