Womans perspective needed

[ninjac]

EDIT: Deleted for privacy reasons.

[Edbear]

Now you must have known that asking for a woman's perspective was going to get the attention of all the blokes and that we just can't resist commenting!

I know a couple not a million miles from me where she is now 75 and he is 49. They have been married for 27 years and are very happy.

When he proposed she had to think about it for a long time and reckoned that the town thought she was mad at the time. I asked him if he really knew what he was doing, but he's been the best thing that could have ever happened to her and has given her the life she never had with her first husband who left with another woman, leaving her close to a nervous breakdown.

I do worry a little now that she is getting very "senior" but I also know he will never let her down and will be her husband until she dies. He has more than proved himself and everyone simply accepts them as a loving couple.

[Keystone19]

Apparently research shows that the most successful partnerships are between younger men and older women with a gap of ten to fifteen years. Next most successful relationships are between couples of the same age and the least successful are between older men and younger women. By successful I believe they are talking about divorce rates. Sorry, can't remember the reference - probably Readers Digest...

[enigma51]

Apparently research shows that the most successful partnerships are between younger men and older women with a gap of ten to fifteen years.

Cause the older ladies dont need training

[janno]

My ex was 12 years older than me, and yes, it was a factor in our breakup. But there were a million other things wrong as well. So really, age is never the problem but it will magnify what is already missing by a large factor. Tread carefully, and if she has shown no interest in you as a potential mate, tread extra carefully. Yes, if you express your feelings and they are not returned, you will probably stuff up your living arrangements - but you won't know until you try.

And no one ever looked back on their deathbed saying "Thank god I was careful not to try anything risky . . ."

[Blue Velvet]

And no one ever looked back on their deathbed saying "Thank god I was careful not to try anything risky . . ."

+1

"Daddy, what does regret mean?
Well son, the funny thing about regret is,
It's better to regret something you have done,
Than to regret something you haven't done..."

Sweet Loaf
Butthole Surfers

[FROSTY:Me]

I"ll second or tenth that. Worst case it doesn't work out--but at least you tried