Age difference in relationships

[loulou]

61 year old Ronnie Wood has a new 19 year old girlfriend. She says she doesn't think about the age difference.
Do we believe this is true love or is she after cash and fame? Do you know of any couples with a big age difference who have stayed together for a long time?

[oldspice]

My cousin, who sadly died last year, married a man in his forties when she was 17. He outlived her. When she died aged 49, he was 77. They had a long and devoted marriage and four lovely children. It doesn't work for everyone, but it did for them.

[loulou]

My grandads third wife was 30 years younger than him but it didn't last long. That's nothing to go by though because his first and second marriages were all short lived.

[bounty hunter]

My girlfriend is 24.  Although she's 24 going on 37.  When I was her age I was into women of 37 - 48, now it's reversed.

[loulou]

Is that a 18 yr age difference then bounty?

[bounty hunter]

19 years

[smurfboy]

I went out with someone twice my age when I was 20. It didn't work out, but the age difference was only part of that. What didn't help was that any time we had any kind of problem, I'd hear 'you're only saying all this because of the age gap, why can't you get over it?'