CAN A BIG AGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO PEOPLE HURT THE RELATIONSHIP?
I’m in love with a great guy who happens to be twenty two years older than me–I’m thirty-one and he’s fifty three. He’s been married and divorced, and has children not much younger than I am. My family thinks I’m making a big mistake, and have come right out and told me that they don’t approve of the relationship. Am I being naive to think our age differences don’t matter? Yes, youre naive if you think your age differences dont matter. They do, but so do all the other differences in your circumstances and personalities. So ignoring this issue, or any issue, wont work. The more you insist that there arent any problems, the more you are probably suppressing your concerns for fear that they will sabotage the relationship. Both you and your partner need to honestly and directly face and discuss all the various problems that have or could emerge around your age difference. Significant age differences between partners can cause serious problems in relationships. The word “significant” is im
