My boyfriend is 3 1/2 years older than me. Considering our life stages (I'm in college, he just started law school) it's a fairly large age gap, but not so big that I get a lot of comments from people. It helps that he's the older one, too. A younger girl dating an older guy is definitely more socially acceptable.

The worst part about our age difference is trying to hang out with each other's friends. We work out just fine & I don't usually notice the age gap, but sometime hanging out with each other's friend groups can be a little awkward because my friends want to do typical college things that he's not as into anymore whereas his friends want to do 20-something things and go to bars that I can't get into because I'm not 21. The bar thing is a huge pain actually and part of the reason I haven't met very many of his new law school friends yet. Besides that, the only other bad thing is glthe social disapproval that I do sometimes get. Oddly enough, I feel like now that he's graduated from college I actually get better reactions from my peers and worse reactions from his.

The best thing is that he's a few years ahead of me on everything so I get lots of good advice on what I should be doing for school, finding internships, getting into law school, practical stuff like movin off-campus . . . Anytime I have a question about something I go to him. It's great because that sounds like it would create a bad power dynamic in our relationship but it really doesn't. We're still very much equals.

He's 5 years older than me. It's odd; my friends always seem to think that's a lot when they first hear it, but his friends have never really cared (aside from a couple jokes when we first started dating). The best part is that I feel like I'm with someone who shares my sense of humor and my level of thinking, but I think that has less to do with age and more to do with who he is. Worst part is that I can't go out to bars with him, but he doesn't go out to bars very much to begin with, so that hasn't really been an issue.

My husband is two and a half years older than me. He'll be 23 in 20 days, and I turned 20 in June. The age difference doesn't really affect us, age is just a number after all.

Mark is one year and two months younger than me. Like everyone else who has a partner around the same age as them has said, it's great because we have the same frame of reference for talking about music, movies, etc. We went to the same high school, and even though he was a grade below me, we can still talk about a lot of the same people because he had a lot of friends in my grade, and I had a lot of friends in his grade. The fact that he's a year younger than me almost never occurs to me. I think in a lot of ways, he's actually more mature than me. And whereas he's usually mistaken for being older than he is, I'm always mistaken for being younger than I am, so people who don't already know I'm the older one are usually shocked.

My partner is 2 and a half years younger than me. I think the reason it works for us is because he is so mature for his age. He works full time, bought his own house when he was 19 etc etc. I was cautious at first because it was weird to date someone the same age as your younger brother, but the age difference never bothered him to begin with.

Martin is 14 months older than me and it works fine.

Eight years--he's older than me. We were 19 and 27 when we married, and it's worked out wonderfully for us thus far.

We have a 5 and a bit year age difference. I'm about to turn 25 and he is 30. I don't consider it to be a big age difference. The only time it ever sounds weird to us is when we talk about how he started University when I was in 8th grade - but I think once you get to a certain age its more about life stage than number.

It has worked out okay for us as when we met we were in a similar life stage. We were both recent graduates working in our field and supporting ourselves.

My life stage was slightly accelerated due to having a child and his was slightly slowed due to spending 7 years at post secondary schools ( I only did 3) - so we kind of met in the middle and it worked well!

Now happily married with two kids!

There is a year and 3 month difference between my husband and I. Though the way our birthdays fall, he would have been 2 grades ahead of me.

He is about to turn 26 in December and I will be turning 25 in March.

I don't even notice the difference, but the one good thing is we are pretty much at the same place in our lives regarding wanting kids, buying a house etc.

Tim is a year and 3 months younger then me (I'm June 88 and he is Sept 89). That being said, he was two years behind me at school. So I finished in 2005, and he was in year 10 :/

There really isn't any bad part due to our age gap. Sometimes I forget that he was behind me at school, so I was two years into uni when he was finishing year 12.

Same with good aspects. He's pretty mature for his age, lives out of home despite only working 20 hours a week, while I have a full time job and live at home still.

He's 15 days older.

My boyfriend is just shy of 5 years older than me.
The worst part? When we met and started liking each other, I was 15 and he was 20. People had a MAJOR issue with that (including my parents), so we had to wait roughly 2 1/2 years before we could date. Now that we're dating, however, (it will be one year come my 19th Birthday this month!), I don't think there really is a down side. We get along well, we're on the same maturity level, just about, and generally on the same page with pretty much everything. I guess the only thing would be that I don't remember a lot of the iconic pop culture things from his child/teen hood, because I was so much younger.

The best part? He has really helped me a lot over the past years as I was growing up and maturing. As I was struggling with the usual teenage problems, I had someone older and wiser (but not TOO much older, as in my parents) who could help me, give me advice, and help me to see things differently. I would be a COMPLETELY different person if I hadn't had him during my latter teen years, and I don't think I would have liked that person.

We have all the same interests and agree on just about everything, so the age issue isn't even an issue! I never even notice it. To be honest, I would hate to date someone my age, as all the guys I meet that are 18/19/20 are so much less mature than my boyfriend!

Boy and I are 2 years, 1 month, and 9 days apart. I'm actually almost exactly 6 months older than his older brother. I'm 26 and he's 24. Everyone who meets him thinks he's 27 or 28. It can be weird sometimes because he just graduated college in May and I've been in the "real world" since 2008. He hasn't had a lot of the life experiences I have yet.

Le boy is 11 months younger than me. I'm 23 and he's 22. But, I think the biggest challenge is that we're in very different chapters of our lives. He has 2ish years of undergrad work left and I'm graduating from undergrad and entering "adult jobs" in December.

My boyfriend is 30 and im 21 so 9 years difference. i did waitressing at pizza hut on weekends whilst i was in my dance college training. He was my manager. This was 4 years ago and still going. Hes a bit more mature than me.

still like an older bloke i think lol

chesca xx

My fiance Brian and I are 3 years, 3 months and 4 days apart. Our age gap works out perfectly. We both loved the same things as kids, are at the same stage in our lives with careers and graduate school, have the same goals- so 3 years doesn't seem like much of a gap at all.

My boyfriend and I are 3 and a half years apart, my boyfriend being the older one I'm only 20 and I don't think we have any better or worse parts revolving around our age Even the we're a few years apart we are going through the same state in life. I really don't think age matters as long as you love each other and you're in a healthy relationship

Rhys is just over a year and 2 months older than me I don't think it's a big age gap at all, especially seeing as we're both in college, but he couldn't wait for me to turn 18 as he said it sounded better a 19 year old with an 18 year old, than 17 haha.

I like that there isn't a big gap as we have a lot of the same friends, and we can talk about loads of stuff from when we were kids

My partner is 6 years older than me. I am 23 and he is 29.

I can't date guys my age. I just can't. I've been through a fair bit in my life and matured pretty quickly. I don't binge drink or do nightclubs like the majority of people my age. I am super passionate about what I do, I work really hard during the week and its just hard to find a 23 year old guy who is in the same headspace as me.

I don't think the age gap has ever really thrown up any problems for us. We're both in similar positions in life and we have very similar morals and values. It helps that most of my friends are between 25-30 as well, so our social circles mesh nicely.

The age gap is only really noticeable when it comes to our taste in music and movies. He is a grunge/punk nerd and I haven't heard of half the bands he rants on about, partly because they're so obscure and partly because I was listening to Hansen when he was in his angsty teenage music stage We tease each other about it constantly.

Tim is just over five years older than me. Five years and two months or something. It just seems perfectly normal so I wouldn't say there were any particular upsides or downsides to the age gap itself. But I won't say it isn't handy that Tim is already a homeowner, which nobody my age was when I met him (he was nearly 26). I didn't marry him for his house but it did make us living together much simpler, and going forward it's going to be easier for us to get our own house. BUT that isn't an age thing, because I'm 26 myself now and virtually nobody my age owns a house. It was just a combination of good economy, him working damn hard and having a good job, and him being incredibly sensible and forward planning.

9 years, 9 months and 16 days.

And we've been together 3 years. living together for 2.

James is 9 months older than me. He's 20 and I'm 19, not that it's ever made a difference. We go to the same college and will probably end up transferring at the same time. It's funny, I remember when I was a young teenager and a year's difference was a huge deal. Now it really is nothing.

I'm 20 and my boyfriend is 46. It's pretty drastic, I know, but we've been together for over a year now. We make it work despite the fact that all the odds are stacked up against us and people are usually not very understanding. It's been a bumpy ride but we've always been there for each other.

I had never been in a relationship before he came along. Mainly because I never found a connection with anyone (especially anyone my age) and I always knew that I was attracted to older men. Of course, I waited until I was legal before pursuing anyone much older than me. He is wonderful. I feel safe and secure when I'm with him. He takes care of me and from the very start made me feel very comfortable with myself and also my sexuality. I was a virgin when I met him and I'm so grateful to have found someone who really respected that and felt a great deal of responsibility when it came to handling a young woman who was as vulnerable as I was. He's still very sensitive to that. He does nothing but encourage me to be my best and I admire him for all the support he gives me. I know that our relationship will always be frowned upon and I am willing to deal with all the criticism. If we weren't serious about each other, neither of us would bother to go through the many complications we face on a regular basis. We are hoping to start a family soon, but I'm trying not to get too ahead of myself. Keeping my mind on finishing school first, then hopefully everything will fall into place.

My boyfriend is a little more than 4 months older than I am, but he is a year ahead of me in school because of the cutoff. We're going to graduate from college at the same time, though, because he spent an extra year doing internships. What's nice about being so close is that we're going to graduate and enter the job market at the same time, so we'll have to deal with the same stuff at the same time. (However, he is a computer scientist so as such will definitely have a better chance at finding a job than I will).

A lot of the time we consider him to be a year older than I just because he had that extra year in school that I didn't so he has that much more life experience (plus I was rather sheltered). In general it's just nice to be on the same page.

We have a 29 year difference between us.

Of course there are differences when it comes to "life experiences" so those are sometimes road blocks in the relationship. We have very similar ethical values, economic theories, religious beliefs, same political party; this is what keeps up together. We are so different in many ways, but similar in the important ones that count in my opinion.

He is the first "older" guy I have ever dated, and I am the first "young" girl he has dated. This leads to misunderstandings sometimes because I do stupid young girl stuff and he has to stay patient because I just don't know better. I have been on a huge learning curve, but I don't regret any of it. I learned a lot of important lessons and I will take them forward to any future relationships. It was good being shown that men can treat women with respect, love, and admiration. I know that I would never settle for less in the future, now that I experienced what some men can provide.

I feel that there is a lot of discrimination to our relationship because of the age difference. I would in a heartbeat take my man at my age, without a doubt. Although I think that if he was my age, he wouldn't have developed the things I find so attractive in him. I guess if I didn't love him, it would be easy to leave him. I don't have a "thing" for older guys, just this particular older guy if that makes sense.
People who have met him have guessed his age at 35-40. People who met me guessed me at 25...so in theory...we only have 10-15 years apart