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age doesn't matter.
posted by
Amanda__
on April 27, 2007 at 7:09 AM
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NewYorker_in_Sicily
It should not matter at all to the observer. The only one's that matter about the age difference should be the two involved. If it matters to one of them, then they really should reconsider before becoming too involved. I must admit that sometime after I was divorced at 50, I refused to date a fellow that I really liked simply because he was nearly twenty years younger than me. Why did it matter to me? I don't know, but it did.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 26, 2007 at 6:29 PM
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NewYorker_in_Sicily
Age shouldn't matter, but I sometimes wonder when I see great differences, twenty years or more, especially if one has considerable wealth. For me specifically, age doesn't matter at all. My wife is twelve years older than me.
posted by
Talion
on April 26, 2007 at 2:29 PM
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I'm in agreement that age shouldn't matter, and it doesn't matter who
is younger or older....
posted by
Rumor
on April 26, 2007 at 2:14 PM
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Some age faster than others naturally; but age is not the key in marriage,
in my opinion. Actually, I doubt if man and woman were meant to spend a lot of years together.
posted by
scriber
on April 26, 2007 at 12:32 PM
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You re so right. An aunt is 10 years older than her husband and they are
still happily married 30 years later. Of course when they were having marital problems everyone blamed it on the age gap. What nonsense. Million of so-called perfect matches end in divorce.
posted by
proc
on April 26, 2007 at 4:47 AM
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Sonny,
I recently did an intepreting job for an ex foreign officer who was assigned to work at the US Embassy in Rome in the 60s...it's the only country he lived in which he regularly visits again and again. No one get's tired of it!
posted by
NewYorker_in_Sicily
on April 25, 2007 at 7:57 PM
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Age isn't a big deal.
I, as probably most people not associated with Hollywood, would agree with you. I have several coupled friends were the woman is older than the man, and nobody really cares. It's not really the age, but the maturity that counts. What you both bring to the relationship is what you both come away with; good, bad or indifferent. By the way, I toured Italy and half a dozen other European countries while I was stationed in Germany thirty years ago. Good country, good people, GREAT food! Some day I'll make it back.
posted by
Sonny_Knight
on April 25, 2007 at 7:26 PM
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afzal
Yes, I did know this about the Prophet, but I guess modern society had its influence...
posted by
NewYorker_in_Sicily
on April 25, 2007 at 7:08 PM
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Awwww thank you Wiley!!!
Honestly, I love teaching - it's as natural to me as breathing. Though right now I'm going to embark on another, more lucrative job until September (working as a tour guide around Sicily) I'll never get the teaching bug out of me -many of my old students thank me to this day. Irish and Italian? Irish and Sicilian would be more like it - hot-headed, passionate island people!
posted by
NewYorker_in_Sicily
on April 25, 2007 at 7:07 PM
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I agree with you in holding that age should not matter in a relationship.
Prophet Mohammad was approached for a marriage by Khadija his first and most beloved wife when she was forty five and Mohammad was 21 years old .Yet , the Muslims nowadays do not marry older women than themselves.VEry strange. Good post.
posted by
afzal50
on April 25, 2007 at 6:56 PM
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NewYorker_in_Sicily
It shouldn't matter a tinker's damn and I agree with you.
Now you should know that I am seriously in love with you simply because you belong to the most wonderful profession in the world teach.
Never mind I'm 71, the love of my life died 7 years ago now, and she too was a teacher.
Oh and know what? Joycie was older than me by 11 months. Thanks for finding my blog luv, so I could find yours. Hey, we'd be a smash hit together, Italian and Irish
posted by
WileyJohn
on April 25, 2007 at 6:55 PM
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