Realistically, how many years older should the man be than the woman in a dating/marriage relationship?
is there an age limit? realistically to make a relationship work.
between 2 to 5 years.
is there an age limit? realistically to make a relationship work.
between 2 to 5 years.
um age is only a number .. . . . . . . And who says the man should be older?!?
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In my opinion, age is just a number, IF THEY’RE BOTH OVER 18! if younger though, than you don’t want to date anyone too young or too old for you. Love is Love.
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who says the man has to be older???
plus.. age shouldnt matter.
love is the only thing that makes relationships last.. nothing else
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between 2 to 5 years.
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I strongly believe the man should be mature enough to clearly realize and understand the girl he dates is the right one that he’s willing to spend the rest of his life with. Or else, if the relationship is based on something else like sex or physical appearance or just for the simple sake of having a girlfriend, then the relationship may probably not last long. Because as he matures more at later age, he might meet other girls that he think is more perfect than the 1st girl. Then doubt and dissatisfaction will set in and at the end of the day he may probably commit adultery/infidelity and ruin the relationship with the 1st girl. You need to consider the fact that more people divorce today than ever. Those not yet divorce, secretly engage in illicit affairs beyond the knowledge of their spouse.
However, maturity should be a 2-way stuff. You can’t expect the man to be mature but the girl is not. That wouldn’t help either.
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This purely depends on the people involved.
Girls mature earlier than guys. So a younger girl is a good match to an older guy.
However there are many guys that never mature. Ever!
And some girls "mature" way too early in some ways, not in others.
Then there is the societal situation. Your friends might think he’s "experienced".
His friends will think he’s a lucky S.O.B.
But his boss will think him immature so he has to go out with younger girls.
Your family might be overly protective of you.
Sorry, too many dynamics involved to make a prediction.
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In dating… age doesnt really matter…but in marriage… most males dont marry females their senior. Only about 3 out of every 10 males marry someone their senior. Calculate that out of a million.
My half sister spent her 30’s and early 40’s bragging about dating guys my age and younger and then crying about how they always dumped her and married someone younger than them. Every single one of her boy toys ended up with a younger wife. But now she gets it. Her husband is 4 years older than her. She went thru 10 years of heart break for nothing. In her case.. I think her boyfriends were fools to dump her because she inherited well.
Nobody says that he HAS to be older than her just like nobody says a female has to be shorter than him either….but… nobody has to say it. its instinctual. Males mostly marry someone younger and shorter than self. Males who marry someone older than them have higher divorce rates than males with someone younger them ESPECIALLY in the 5+ year ranges.
Anyways… i think it depends on income. A male who is not strong and financially independent… is probably better off marrying someone about his age or even older than him (weak males should marry strong women. White males of my generation are much weaker than of our granddads generations and cant support themselves and dont make very good providers anymore… and thus should marry stronger women).
With successful strong independent males… there is a greater potential to marry one someone 5-30 years their junior (a female perhaps who is not strong and independent needs a successful male. Not all females are corporate execs earning $100,000 annually).
So it depends on the income really. My parents were 20+years apart but my dad was a strong independent business owning male. They are the only ones who can pull that off. Weaker white males are better off not dreaming of that and stick to someone their own age.
So it depends on income more than anything.
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