Quote Originally Posted by AK907 View Post
And here I thought I was a cradle robber.

My wife is 21 and I'm 28. We got married when she was 17 and were told by countless people how it would never work out. Someone even had the audacity to give us less than 6 months before we were divorced. Well we've been happily married for almost 4 years now. Our love has never been stronger and it just gets better with each year of marriage.

I like your advice about not looking. That is how I met my wife. Her mother was a regular customer of mine and I had no clue she even had a daughter. One day she insisted (I seriously didn't have a choice, haha) that I come check out a yard sale they were having. I went and checked it out and before I even got home I had a stalker on Facebook/Myspace. Less than a year later we were married.
I remember my Dad explaining to one of his friends that our age difference was of biblical proportions. I wouldn't recommend that big an age difference (essentially a whole generation) to the vast majority of the population because it's so easy to end up having nothing in common and most people (women or men) have a lot of growing up to do in their early 20s. Kind of freaky to think about but my husband was getting married for the first time 3 days after I was born. I get a kick out of looking at his wedding pics, and he gets all kinds of kudos from his friends for having been able to bag a younger woman, lol What makes it work for us, I think, is that I've always been way older than my age and we see the world in such a similar way. From politics to religion and the importance of family, we agree on all the usual hot buttons and we don't get nasty when we argue. Helps that I'm not a high maintenance woman, I don't play games and I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty! I always had guy friends rather than girl friends growing up, so I like to think I 'get' men a little better than most

Exceptional relationships can exist in some strange circumstances. Congrats on your happy marriage and may you have many more such years