On age gap relationships (younger woman/older man)
The people who say that all age gap relationships are predatory (with the argument that the two people are at different stages in life) obviously lack a broader vision of life. In every relationship there is a possibility that you won’t be at the same stage in your life as your partner. In every relationship, there is a possibility that one of the partners will abuse the other, and that has nothing to do with age. It has to do with people.
Life isn’t a line, and a career isn’t one either. I often hear people saying “what would a 40 year old get out of a relationship with a 20 year old?” Excuse my romantic side, but aren’t relationships in general about support, love and respect? Do people commit to someone, wondering what they could possibly get out of their relationship?
A couple doesn’t have to share the same interests or work in the same area. What they got to have in common are plans in the long term related to their relationship. We can’t be always on the same level as our partner. One may lose their job. One may drop out of university or college. One may get very sick. All these situations put one of the partners in a quite vulnerable situation. And for a lot of judgemental people, age only immediately puts you in a vulnerable position.
We need to stop treating all younger women dating older men as brainless people who are too blind to recognise a bad relationship but we also need to stop making older men in a relationship with a younger woman look like frustrated perverts who simply can’t get a woman their own age and who are going through a mid-life crisis.
As corny as it sounds, true love knows no age, no colour and no status.
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