# Age difference between you and your g/f, b/f, spouse.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-difference-between-you-and-your-g-f-b-f-spouse/302842>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 7, 2005, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-difference-between-you-and-your-g-f-b-f-spouse/302842 "2005-05-07T19:17:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Malice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/278dde/32.png) [@Malice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malice)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-difference-between-you-and-your-g-f-b-f-spouse/302842/61 "2005-05-10T20:55:37Z")

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At 37, I’m two years older than my wife, which has been the average age difference for my relationships in general.

But when I was 28, I dated a woman who was 21.

And when I was 27, I dated a woman who was 48.

And in an I-swear-I’m-telling-the-truth-officer moment, I dated a woman when I was 20 who I understood to be a junior at an out-of-state college. I discovered a week later she was a junior at an out-of-state _high school_, and was just 16 (!!). As age differences go, I consider that was the biggest.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2005, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/age-difference-between-you-and-your-g-f-b-f-spouse/302842/62 "2005-05-10T22:06:58Z")

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I’m 34. My girlfriend is twenty years older.

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