Age difference...

Changing times.

I just finished a book about early Kimble county, The Reckoning, by Peter R. Rose. A little convoluted with names, dates, etcetera, but reinforces what I've noticed - chiefly that Junction was founded by outlaws and still has some around today.

One thing that stood out and I've noticed about other frontier history - plenty of guys in their 50s (and 60s) would marry young women in their 20s (and 30s). I realize many times the first wife died, due to the hard life they all lead, and children needed caring for. It's just with all the other bizarre, twisted, woke BS going on these days, it struck me that this straight, heterosexual union OF TWO people by marriage is frowned upon by our modern society. One son-in-law is 13 years older than our daughter, and he's only 9 years younger than me, which is kinda weird, but they seem to be happy.

I'm happily married to a woman my age, and I have enough performance anxiety without the pressure of a young woman in her prime, but...I always thought it was a good gig if you could "swing it."

How 'bout you? (We already know thoughts from our resident menage a trois, if it exists. )

Mine is 6 years younger.

Mine is 2 years younger and in her prime at 41!

My wife is 28 years younger then I am and so is our girlfriend. Sitting in the OBs office as I type this having a checkup on our baby to be.

My great grandma married a widower who was 46 when she was 13 and was considered the luckiest woman in the county because the man was well established and respected. He was a Baptist minister and a land owner with about 40 men who worked for him. She had 7 or 9 children and lived to be 108.

I certainly hope your choice works out well for all involved.

So far so good. We are at 25 weeks with no issues of concern. This one is a little girl and her name is going to be Ripley.

Them being in a relationship with a man who is established has benefited both of them. They both have advanced degrees that I paid for and want for nothing. If I ever have time I am going to get a copy of the filings for the case that made gay marriage legal and just change the wording and file against the state of Texas for preventing the 3 of us from getting married.

My wife is 9 years and 11 months younger. I was shooting for 10 + younger but she was and is a cutie and a wonderful gal that is a keeper so I let 10+ slide

Mine is nine years younger than me but looks 20 younger.

Seems like some on here are engaged in more deviant behavior than the older folks in the OP.

It does seem like it was much more common back then and apparently no one thought twice about it. My daughter in law has a sister who is around her age (30's). The sister is married to a guy who is in his 60's. No problems as far as I know.
For me, other than the obvious up side, I don't think that would work for me. I would rather be with someone who is closer to my age that I actually have things in common with.

I remember hearing one about a young german bride who came over to marry an older rancher with a couple of thousand acres just north of Leakey. He was late fifties/early sixties and died soon thereafter. He ahd reasons for his need and she had to live out there forever after.

46 and 13 is a bit extreme but whatever floats your boat. Don't believe that is permissible nowadays in the USA. Believe 14/15 may be about the youngest a person can legally get married with parental consent.

You should've let them marry each other and then you could be the pool boy.

During my genealogical research of my own family, it was common in the 17th and 18th century for a man to not marry, until he was established and could provide for a family. There were a lot of 20+ year gaps between husband and wife.

This was in Arkansas in the 1870s or 1880s. Different times with different standards. If memory serves me correctly she didn't have children until she was older. Her husband was a minister and I am pretty sure that he had high standards and morals. It is quite possible that he did not lay a hand on her for a few years.

I waited 50 years to get married for the first time and I'll be damned if I am going to get divorced to keep the government happy.

I do like how you think though but I am too old to be a boy anymore. Both of them together are still younger than I am by a few years.

Yeah and those older guys in Arkansas guys always looked for young teen girls who were faster than their older brothers.

This forum never ceases to amaze me

I’m 46 and the wife is 44.

I have an uncle that is around 25 years older than his current (second) wife.

Dear Penthouse..............

What is going on in here?

We got a throuple brewing?

Sounds like more of the usual fiction to me.

Wife is 2 years younger and going to be the death of me.

But, as a urologist asked me once...Is it worth it?

Yes, in my case at least. Mine is 2 years younger too

Give me a call. That's a case that I would enjoy taking to SCOTUS

Ripley? As in "Believe it or not"? I can't decide.

Ripley as in Ellen Ripley who is the character played by Sigourney Weaver in Aliens.

Is that because you look older then your age?

Haha, a little of both. I was able to buy at the liquor store when I was 15.

If you are ever in Dallas you have an open invitation to dinner at my house. That's assuming my pit bull doesn't scare you off.

Mine is 8 years older.

I'd love to meet up sometime at Peaks or Wild Buffalo, catch a game and hear some more of your crazy tales blkt2. You're kind of the Renaissance version of Tom Mix...

Always wanted someone to do this. The reasoning is the same. And what if you could prove a dog's desire. Hmmmm. Same reasoning as well.

More than half the reason I want to do it is to stick my finger into the eyes of the polotical left. They will freak out over the thought of a man having a personal harem and will outright lose their minds saying that women will be the property of their husband's. Two prancing fairy men adopting a boy and raising him up to be a deviant is fine but a man being married to two women who are arguably smarter than him is somehow abuse.

Uh, I ain't touching the dog type thing. But yes, the legal reasoning is the same for plural marriage. If anything, it's stronger because procreation is possible this way, whereas it's impossible for a same-sex couple.

Imagine the effect it would have on property rights - you could keep the same property in the same family hands for a long, long time without any need for probate etc



Agreed

Based on your stories of live in dominatrix's and now polygamist moral turpitude, I'd be more concerned with the gimp living in your basement.

I split with the Dominatrix in 2012.

I am only married to one woman.

I mostly have contempt for male homosexuals, don't have a basement, and would only keep a gimp around if he forked over 20k to 25k per month for the privilege. Believe it or not that is a realistic number for that sort of thing in NYC if you are well established and reputable.

I’m on my second, and hopefully, last wife. She is 11 years younger than me and things are going ok.

Was married for 25 years to the first one but, according to her, I forced her into the arms of another man. Never expected that to happen and didn’t see it coming.

My Great Great Grandfather was born in 1825 and didn’t marry until he was 25 years old and his first wife was 19 years old so only six years difference. They had three children one of which no date of death is known the other two didn’t live past 1886 and the first wife died in 1861. What is strange is he joined the Confederate Army in Quitman, TX in 1862 so I wonder who took care of the kids since the wife was deceased.

He married again in 1867 at the age of 42 to my Great Great Grandmother who was 18 years old so a 42 year age difference and they had 10 children.

I meet my wife in church and we were friends for eight years before we started dating and she is 20 years older. We always had a lot in common and I don’t know if it was she acted younger or I older or a combination of both. Once her Alz journey is over I don’t know if I will date again but if I do it will be someone closer to my age or a little younger so we can grow older together.

My beautiful wife is 6 year older than I, actually it’s 5 1/2 as she says.

I was 21 when I married a 17 year old, her dad had to sign her away. That was 37 years ago, I got a good one.

This one is interesting, my GG grandfather was born in 1842, and like anyone his age back then he served in the Civil War. He never married till he was 50-year-old, in 1892. He married a much younger lady that was 23 years old, she was born after the Civil War in 1869. I was seven years old when she passed away at 106 years old, in 1975. In the 1970s he liked to tell the story of her husband serving in the Civil War, although she was never alive for it. She was sharp until the day she passed. I only vaguely remember her. That was her only marriage.

My wife is 25 days younger than me. Her birthday is today and we've been married 36 years.

31 years here. It's not perfect, but we make it work.