I have been married for nearly 46 years to a man 12 and a half years older than me. When I married my husband the age was no problem. When I look back I see it different, as when I was younger I mixed with a lot more older people and so did not do the things that I would have done if I had married a man with a smaller age difference. Now when I am 64 and he is nearly 77 the difference is really noticeble. My husband looks still to this day more than 10 years younger, (he was the same when we met so I did not know his age) and sometimes they think he is younger than me. However he is now acting his age and is not interested in a lot of things that I am still interested in. Also he retired when he was 62, yet I am still working to make sure we have a decent life.
Now when I mix with people his age I am confronted with people who are really old and want to take life easier. I am not ready for that. I do not know what I will be like at 77, I might be the same, however I do not want to live like that now, so we do a lot of things seperate. He does his thing and I do mine.
When my son's were in their twenties I would have done something if a mother of a friend of theirs had gone after my sons. When I see a young man, I could not dream of going to bed with them, it is like going to bed with your sons. Sickening.
