Straight guy. Had a fairly intense romance with a 35-year-old when I was 24.
Didn’t work out, as I was still enjoying the freedom of independent adulthood, while she was feeling the pressure of advancing years and was getting desperate for a husband and a kid. The sex was good, though.
When I was 30, I dated a gal who was in her early-to-mid 50s for a while.
I can’t say exactly how old she was, because I don’t know; she told me she was 41 and I believed her. Not until she broke things off did she casually say, “And by the way, I’m a lot older than I told you before.”
My wife (the most wonderful woman in the world) is 15 1/5 years older than I am. We met here on the boards 5 1/2 years ago and we will be celebrating our 4th wedding anniversary next month
Feel free. I wish I had thought of it myself, but I found it in a list of gay slang terms. I’m very happy with it though; it’s the first label I’ve felt comfortable applying to myself. I wish I didn’t need a label at all, but out society is obsessed with them.
Heterosexual female. Relationship that later was a friends with benefits thing, he was 11 years my senior. When I was 25 I dated a guy for a while who was 52.
female, straight. I only dated three guys within 5 years of my age and I married one of them.
When I was 17 I dated a 34 year old, though I think the biggest gap was when I dated one of my professors; I was about 20 and he was in his middle 50s I would say. Well, I never asked for his driver’s license. My dad was really annoyed, and prof insisted on meeting him. Which I thought was suicidal.
They still go fishing together though the relationship was as fleeting as you might expect.
Straight female. My first husband and I got married when I was 25 and he was 49. My second and final husband and I got married a few months ago; I’m 35 and he just turned 54.
A twenty year difference is (I think) the greatest age gap for me. I met her when I was thirty and she was fifty.
When I was thirteen-fourteen I systematically hit on every adult woman that came into my perceptual field. There was one woman I hooked up with a few times that was probably in her late thirties, so she probably has a slight edge, there. Can’t be sure, though.
In the other direction, had a romantic relationship with a nineteen-year-old that started in '99, when I was twenty-nine – and a stupid hook-up a few weeks ago with a twenty-year-old. (I’m thirty-five now.)