Topic : 09/21 Does Age Matter?

I will not give up just because people are uncomfortable with my situation

what about your kids Shelley???

What about your 18 year old son who is not only uncomfortable.....

but who has a MAJOR problem with this!!

Its mothers like you that screw with their kids heads and leave it to society to deal with the problems that these screwed up kids cause.....

Get help!!!

I do agree that the 38 year old and 18 year old boyfriend didn't seem right because it was her som's friend

and the ages are not much different in her own kids,however Dr Phil really gave them a hard time but nothing was spoken to the child star and the model wife. I do believe it is double standard and always more acceptable for a male to date a younger woman but unacceptable if it is reversed. Not fair. I think it is strange the he 22 years older than the was. It was just as weird as the woman and the boy...

Dr. Phil didn't really say anything negative because of the celebrity issue. they needed to be evaluated

to about age instead of the dinamics of the relationship...

not fair...

My husband has been at his current workplace for 31 years. When I think that I was only 8 years old when he started there, I have to laugh! And the day I was born, he had already been driving a car for a couple of years and had graduated from high school. At THAT point in time, it would've been nappropriate!

But we met when I was 27 and he, 45. At these ages, it was like no age difference at all, and we really hit it off! So, we both got divorces from our respective spouses, and 9 yrs later (yes, NINE yrs later!) we got married. We did NOT live together before our wedding date, believe it or not.

Now that I am 40 and he's 58, the age difference is really starting to show. In the years that we've been together, he has aged about 25 years, and me, only about 3.  I definitely have alot more energy than he does, and I hate it that he'd rather hang out in a chair and snooze instead of hang out with me! Plus, there's alot of other age related things that are going on with him both physically and mentally that really scare me and make me HAVE to face the facts:  I'm with "an old man."

Of course I still love him, but I guess everything in life changes. And I KNEW I'd be facing this, but I didn't expect it for a long, long time!  I, personally, don't want to be 90 yet, and I wonder why HE wants to get old so fast.. (He has been cleared by his doctor as being in "perfect health.")

But you know what? All the adventurous, youthful years we enjoyed together were well worth it and I wouldn't change THAT for the world! 

I thought you two were living together. Have you checked out support rights regarding common law marriages? You might get hit with a real surprise should Mark decide to sue you for financial support further down the road. 

I don't think you are crazy, or a child molester or any of that. But I do think you are opening yourself up to a huge potential for being very hurt.

In another post it was mentioned that Mark had been bringing up the idea of marriage. Here I have a very, very good piece of advice for you.

If you two do decide to tie the knot, don't get that ill tempered, conniving, under achieving wannabe priest to perform your service.