Is there a “perfect” age difference for married couples?
I’ve heard that marriages of great age difference tend to run in families, but I can’t find anything to back that up, and it certainly wasn’t true in my own family. My father was 21 years older than my mother (and still lived long enough to have a golden anniversary), yet my sisters and I married men much closer to our own ages. It was interesting to watch my daughter, the quintessential alpha female. All of her boyfriends, and eventually the one she married, were somewhat younger than she, because she has a psychological need to be the dominant person and to call the shots. In a sense, I think it is irrelevant, because we are all unique individuals with our own distinct notions of what we want from a relationship. That allows for a wide range of couplings, and who’s to say what is right or wrong in affairs of the heart?
