Older Bride, Younger Groom

Woohoo! Go you! Not me, but matthew's grandma had a lot of spunk in her and was always with a younger man... Many of them.

My DH is eight years younger than I am. We've been married almost 15 years now, having our vow renewal in less than 30 days, woo too! Most people have always thought that we were the same age too! Don't worry about what other people think, it's how you two feel that matters!

I'm 13 years younger than my groom. People make comments all the time. I just ignore them.

My BFF just married a man who is older then he is... paint you a picture, we were having kindergarten graduation and he was graduating from high school the same weekend.

Who cares, and my uncle is 8 years younger then my aunt and they just celebrated 25 years.

FH's father was disapproving of the fact we met online and that I was so much older, then, as relayed to me later on by my FH, when FFIL met me he did the equivalent of the Snoopy dance LOL. FH says that most of the girls with whom he (FH) went to high school now look the same age as his own mother, but how old I look doesn't bother him one bit anyway; he said once that I could be a male overly-hirsute Wookie and he'd still love me. Awww....LOL

I'm 7 years older than my husband! It's not a huge amount, but it's enough to occasionally people will take a double-look when we're giving our IDs for alcohol or something. When we got married I was 31 and he was 24.

We like to average and just claim to both be 27.

Only thing it's kind of impacting right now is that I feel like my clock is ticking for babies, and he's still has some mid-20's priorities that don't quite line up with children yet.

Most of the men in my family are married to older women. And most of the women in my family are married to younger men. My FH is younger than me. It just happen to be that way. Who am I to fight tradition, lol

I am 6 years older, but thankfully immature enough that it doesn't matter.

My aunt is 15 years older than my uncle. It raised a few eyebrows (he was 24 - turning 25 and she had just turned 40), but they worked; been married about 18 yrs. now. His mother was the only parent alive to have any sort of opinion, and she'd known my aunt for years and loved her. As long as you're happy and the families don't make it difficult it's all gravy! ;D

14 years older--15 for a few months! Difficulties with other people? Mainly his family church. We tried attending together and weren't treated well. they're very rigid--their bible study groups are divided by age and relationship status. For example, New Couples ages 20-30, Couples 30-50, Singles 30-40, so on and so forth. So of course we don't fit into any of their groups and the consequential social circles. I am divorced--I was a teen parent and our families pressured us into marrying. The only reason my first marriage lasted as long as it did was that I was member of the same church and they do NOT like divorce. I only went back years later because he asked me, but we didn't feel welcome. Finally one day one of the church elders approached me before the service and "suggested" that I join the other divorced parents on the childcare program--never mind the fact that my children were teens and attending the regular service! We found a different church. There is more drama...

My fiancee was close to the youth pastor there however, who is now the main pastor, and promised him that when he ever got married the pastor would officiate. He feels obligated to approach that pastor still and ask him to do the ceremony. We talked about it and to make up for it, I get to pick the venues and some other decisions on my own, so I'm ok with that (conservative pastor doesn't know one of my bridesmaids is trans BWAHAHA), but it will be interesting to see how it works out, what the pastor tries to pull if he agrees to do it. Since I am older, I have the confidence to stop right in the middle of the ceremony if I have to and tell the pastor to knock it off (at my sister's wedding the pastor stuck in the "to obey" part after they asked him not to). BTW, I do really like the idea of connecting with some other women older than their guys!

I'm only 5 years older than FH, but he thinks it's funny to tell people he caught a cougar lol

OOOHHH DATE TWIN!!!!

I think it is soooo hott that your husband to be is younger than you. says a lot about how hot you are and you look gorgeous anyways!! More power to you!!

I bet its not easy to tell that you are older than him. I have friends who married younger guys and they have a great marriage.

I also met my FH online as well. Nothing wrong with that. Its the 21st century

I am more into guys who are around my age or slightly older. Either way its soo hot!!

My mom is 9 years older than my dad, which isn't as big of a gap but they've been married for... around 25 years? I should probably know how long my parents have been married haha, bad daughter! My mom looks and acts younger than my dad though so nobody really says anything and are usually shocked when they find out and mostly just impressed at how young my mom looks. She did have a daughter from a previous marriage though who is only 9 years younger than my dad. He adopted her and most people assume she's his biological daughter so we like to tell people the age difference without explaining just to see people's reactions. It's pretty funny.

I'm 6.5 years older than FH. I've always dated younger guys for some reason. Luckily no one has given us any off color comments.

FH is the first guy I've been with who was older than me (he is by 7 years). Most of the women in my family have married younger men.

There was 23 years between FH's parents - his dad was older. His dad is the same age as my grandparents (or would be if he was still living).

Funny about the attraction to younger men thing. I have never been attracted to anyone before, but have always preferred the "look" of men older than I am. My attraction to FH is purely intellectual and emotional, and the same in reverse, for him.

My ex-husband was 4 years older than me. My ex-girlfriend was 11 years older than me (exactly--we shared the same birthday). NotFroofy is 15 years younger than me. Apparently, age doesn't have much to do with anything for me. The one way it's been an issue is that NotFroofy would have liked to have a child of her own, while I already had two and was ready to be finished. However, financially it just wasn't feasible for us to have a child anyway.

Me and my FH have a ten year age difference me being older. We have never really thought about the age difference. We feel as long as we are happy who cares. FH was my first younger man I have dated.

I married a 90 year old groom to his child bride -- who was only 78!

I married a woman to a friend of her son -- he was about 25 years younger than she.

I married a couple where the groom looked younger than he was and the bride looked older than she was. Although there was only a 5-7 year age difference, it looked more like 20 (my hubby even asked me why the guy was holding hands with his mom).

I dated guys ranging from 10 years younger to 18 years older. The guy who was 10 years younger looked much older than he was (receding hairline) and the guy who was 18 years older looked younger than he was.