Sometimes people are afraid to connect life with the person who is nearby, due to a certain age difference with him. They are worried about what others will say and how this may affect the distribution of roles in the family. Indeed, a significant difference in the age of partners can affect how their relationship will turn out.
Relationships in a couple are influenced by many factors, including the education of each partner, upbringing and outlook on the life of a man and a woman. In some cases, how a couple will be together is largely determined by whether the partners have an age difference and how big it is.
How can the fact that a man is older affect a relationship?
Of course, couples in which a man is 3-5 years older than his partner are not unusual. When people talk about families in which the husband is significantly older than his wife, they usually mean those in which the age difference between the spouses is 8-10 years or more. An older man can attract women by virtue of his wealth - which means not only the material side of life, but also the fact that such a representative of the stronger sex is a self-sufficient respected person with an established outlook on life.
Such a man in most cases has a decent life experience, which allows him to rationally and carefully approach relationships with his younger, and, as a consequence, often more emotional companion. She trusts his judgments and generally allows her man to play a leading role in such a union. If her partner does not abuse the power that his beloved gives him, and does not allow himself to slide down to the level of a banal dictator who, in any situation, leaves the last word for himself, then such a union can have a wonderful future.
How will the fact that the woman is older in the couple affect the relationship?
In the countries of the former USSR, it has historically developed that such alliances are explicitly or implicitly, but nevertheless condemned by society. Women try to hide their envy of their peers, who managed to get the younger partner interested in earnest, and men can dismiss the one who made his choice in favor of the "old maid". In fact, a more mature woman is in most cases calmer and wiser than her somewhat less adult partner in life, which allows her to tolerate some of the character traits of her lover.
There is a widespread belief that a woman physically withers faster than a man, and that as soon as he notices this, he will immediately leave his more mature girlfriend. In fact, a partner who is a little less years old than herself motivates a woman to maintain her physical shape like no other circumstance. Mystically, it is in such unions that a woman can look significantly younger than her lover.
