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Sometimes, I feel like his opinions are 'outdated,' but it's because he grew up in a different time than me, so I have learned to be more understanding of where he is coming from because things changed A LOT between his childhood/teen years and mine." by Devin Herenda. If you're in an age-gap relationship, there can be certain ways in which you and your partner don't exactly see things eye to eye. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF.
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20th Century Fox Television / Via giphy.com. We recently asked folks from the BuzzFeed Community who are in relationships with large age disparities to share the biggest difference they experience with their partner. Here are some comments they submitted: 1. "I’m no longer with him, but I was in an age-gap relationship when I was 21 (female), and he was 52 (male). We lasted around a year and a half. The biggest difference for me was actually the opposite of what you’d expect. Everyone talks about how large age gaps don’t work because you’re both in such different places, the older one is mature, ready to buy the big house and invest, career-driven and enjoying success. The younger is immature, spontaneous, doesn’t want to keep their feet on the ground. In my case, I felt like I was just getting started, and he’d given up. I was career-driven, I was chasing success, I was careful about things. He’d already done all that, and he was happy to just…chill." "He wanted to go out more and saw no real need to move to somewhere with better prospects, to learn, to progress. And that’s fine! He didn’t need to progress anymore — he’d done that. But I still had so much to do, and it made it difficult to stay on the same wavelength. Ultimately, I think he’d have followed me and been there to support me, but we had other issues, and it ended." –Anonymous, 22, UK. Zgel / Getty Images/iStockphoto. 2. "I met my now-husband when I was barely 21 (I had lied about my age on Bumble, but we didn't meet until a month after I turned 21). He's almost nine years older than me and had lived three lifetimes before me, including being a military brat, going to college, being an MMA fighter, and just living on his own. I met him when he had a very successful, established job and had already done everything I was about to do way before me. I would say the biggest difference, besides him mentioning a movie he saw as a kid when I wasn't even born, is he partied and went clubbing and bar hopping for years before he met me, but by the time I met him, he was already over it and in a new stage of life.
My boyfriend is 10 years older
Sometimes, I feel like his opinions are 'outdated,' but it's because he grew up in a different time than me, so I have learned to be more understanding of where he is coming from because things changed A LOT between his childhood/teen years and mine." by Devin Herenda. If you're in an age-gap relationship, there can be certain ways in which you and your partner don't exactly see things eye to eye. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF.
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20th Century Fox Television / Via giphy.com. We recently asked folks from the BuzzFeed Community who are in relationships with large age disparities to share the biggest difference they experience with their partner. Here are some comments they submitted: 1. "I’m no longer with him, but I was in an age-gap relationship when I was 21 (female), and he was 52 (male). We lasted around a year and a half. The biggest difference for me was actually the opposite of what you’d expect. Everyone talks about how large age gaps don’t work because you’re both in such different places, the older one is mature, ready to buy the big house and invest, career-driven and enjoying success. The younger is immature, spontaneous, doesn’t want to keep their feet on the ground. In my case, I felt like I was just getting started, and he’d given up. I was career-driven, I was chasing success, I was careful about things. He’d already done all that, and he was happy to just…chill." "He wanted to go out more and saw no real need to move to somewhere with better prospects, to learn, to progress. And that’s fine! He didn’t need to progress anymore — he’d done that. But I still had so much to do, and it made it difficult to stay on the same wavelength. Ultimately, I think he’d have followed me and been there to support me, but we had other issues, and it ended." –Anonymous, 22, UK. Zgel / Getty Images/iStockphoto. 2. "I met my now-husband when I was barely 21 (I had lied about my age on Bumble, but we didn't meet until a month after I turned 21). He's almost nine years older than me and had lived three lifetimes before me, including being a military brat, going to college, being an MMA fighter, and just living on his own. I met him when he had a very successful, established job and had already done everything I was about to do way before me. I would say the biggest difference, besides him mentioning a movie he saw as a kid when I wasn't even born, is he partied and went clubbing and bar hopping for years before he met me, but by the time I met him, he was already over it and in a new stage of life.
My boyfriend is 10 years older