Is it better to marry some younger or older than you?

[jujube]

Would you settle for a 95-year-old pool boy with a tepid bod?
If so, I might be calling in 25 yrs

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Uh, how big is the pool?

I dunno, Gary...…..how do you look in a gold Speedo?

In 25 years...…. You and the Missus are welcome to stop by. I'll have retired my boy-toy pool boy by then and moved on to a pool lift and a physical therapist (but he'll be a cutie.....bet on it!)

 

[Keesha]

Isn’t toy boy younger ?
My guys much younger.

 

[peppermint]

I am 5 month's older then my husband …. We met in High School and we are still married for almost 55 years....

 

[Gary O']

I dunno, Gary...…..how do you look in a gold Speedo?

Tempting to post...best not

My friends wouldn't like it

 

[pleinmont]

My husband is nearly three years older than me. I would never have considered marrying a much older man, or one younger than me.

 

[Wren]

I would say older but some people mature at a young age

If there is a big age difference the older one may eventually become insecure thinking their partner will turn to somebody their own age .....

 

[Ferocious]

Surprisingly, there seems to be an acute shortage of, 'Miss World', 19 year old billionairesses who fancy me, but you never know, perhaps around the next corner.

 

[Ken N Tx]

Typically, men are older than women when they marry, but what is better? Is it better to marry somebody younger or older than you?

I have only done it one time....

 

[StarSong]

My husband is 5 months younger. I think it's best to marry someone roughly your own age for two reasons.

1. Retirement benefits come at the same time. An acquaintance's 3rd husband is 8 years her junior. She was a bit show-offy about it for a few years - her younger man. Then he was laid off during a downsizing at age 50 and has been unable to find another job. He's now 59 and she's 67, but she can't retire because they need the income and he needs the medical benefits. Their marriage appears happy and solid, but I'm sure she's thinking it would have worked out better if they were the same age.

2. You experience cultural events in roughly the same way. About 30 years ago we were at a party chatting about how we'd each experienced the night the Beatles were first on Ed Sullivan. One told of not being allowed to watch, but she nevertheless knew all about it and had been swept up in the excitement of Beatlemania and the English Invasion. Another friend told of how he and his older brothers watched together. We turned to his wife next. She said, "I was two." (She was ten years younger than her husband.) We moved on to the next person, but that moment stuck with me to this day.

 

[RadishRose]

Sharing a similar past is nice. The memories whether the Beatles, or a huge current event or just comparing the changes between then and now, is satisfying when you can share them with your mate.

 

[DaveA]

I met my wife 3 weeks after she'd turned 17. Lucky she wasn't one of the "prefer someone 5 years or so younger". I'd have had to be 11 or 12 and that might not have been a good match.

In our case, I was actually 2-1/2 years older and somehow it's still working at 86 and 83.

 

[StarSong]

Sharing a similar past is nice. The memories whether the Beatles, or a huge current event or just comparing the changes between then and now, is satisfying when you can share them with your mate.

That's exactly what I was getting at, RR. You just said it better. Thanks for that, GF.

 

[toffee]

older and richer I say !!

 

[Ken N Tx]

My husband is 5 months younger.

Agree...My wife is 6 Months younger..

 

[peppermint]

My husband is nearly three years older than me. I would never have considered marrying a much older man, or one younger than me.

When I met my husband in High School, it didn't matter how young or old he was...But of course we were in the same grade....

 

[Lakeland living]

Age, doesn't matter to me, never has and never will. Depends on the person.