this troper and her (now) husband are 13 years apart. We met when I was 17 and he was 30 (it's OK, we're british)

This troper's Mother and Father. His Father is nearly eighty and his Mother has just hit 40. Yah, I get odd looks.

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A former neighbour couple of this troper married when she was 25 and he 50. In an odd numerical coincidence, she died at 50, leaving him a widower at 75.

This troper's parents and the troper herself. Her mother is 13 years older than her father, and she and her husband are 15 years apart.

According to my dad, when he was born, his dad was 60 and his mom was 40.

This troper (I met my wife when I was 31 and she was just 21). And this troper's step-grandfather - at 78 he married an 18 year-old because she was pregnant, and they were divorced before the baby was born (Grandpa Lecil was a [Insert Bad-Word here].)

Jerk? Man-Whore? Asshole? No good ruttin hun dan? Sorry, I just wanted to do that little joke at the end there.

This troper was close to be being in a relationship with a female was 8 months older than me (I'm 23, she is 24). She decided that she didn't want to date me, went out with a dude a year younger than her who lived on the other side of the United States. Dumped him and decided to start dating a 42 year old man. This troper has yet to tell her that he is not happy with their relationship, not because she turned me down but he's old enough to be her dad.

This (20 year old) troper was until recently in a relationship with a 42 year old woman. whom he met in the mental ward where he was held for suicidal behaviour. And she was on a rebound from a long marriage, which she broke up from because her husband was getting bi-curious.

This troper's GayBestFriend. When he was 21, he was dating a man who was 32.

Also played for comedy in this troper's existance. When she was an 18-year-old high-school senior, she started dating a 14-year-old freshman. This isn't all that unusual... except that all her friends ''treated'' it like a more typical MayDecemberRomance. They called her nicknames like "cradle-robber" and "MrsRobinson." In a more recent conversation, they've dubbed her a "Cougar-In-Training."

This troper's GayBestFriend is 16. He's dated at least one guy that was 29...

This troper's mother is 15 years older than her husband. Troper's own husband is older than her stepfather.

This troper is 19 years younger than his girlfriend of almost four years and counting.

This troper's 43 year old white father is currently dating a 21 year old black woman, so it's kind of a double-whammy. Both are very, very happy with the relationship, and indeed enjoy making fun at people who think anything about the relationship is weird.

You tell your dad he gets a MadeOfWin from me. That's right, screw the haters!

As someone whose uncle and his wife are the exact situation, where I'm the only one in the entire family who supports them, I agree. Made of Wins for the lot of you!

This troper's adopted father and biological mother are 23 years apart. What's funny is that her parents are only a few years older than him. I love the reaction of other people when I tell them that.

Confirming this troper's worst (or best?) suspicions, the older he gets, the younger (and more numberous) the romantic interests tend to be. He's nearing his 30's, and recently discovered a college junior thought he was "hot"? Can't complain, I guess....

I think I've got almost everyone here beat. I'm 50 and my husband is 80. We've been happily married for 17 years and together for 19.

D'awwwwwwwww!

This troper's father is 11 years older than her stepmother.

This troper's biological parents were 20-ish and 50 when this troper was born. Also this troper is dating someone eight years her senior.

This troper, due to an utter indifference to age, has seen his last two relationships be minor cases in opposite ways. One was eleven years older, the next was eight years younger. Both are still good friends, though the troper in question is somewhat happily single and fears that he is becoming the stereotypical crusty bachelor.

IReadThatAs eighty years younger...

Despite pale skin and an aversion to direct sun, I am not a vampire.

This troper's dad and mum were five years apart- probably a May/September. Now, however, he's dating a lady ten years younger than him, although 40/50 doesn't strike one as that odd, and his age is really quite difficult to pin down. Additionally, Mom's new husband is about ten years or so older than her. There seems to be a pattern developing here...

This troper's parents might be best described as May/September as well, being eight years apart. When they got married (1990), my mom was 24 and my dad was 32.

This Troper, who is 18 and in college, has it bad for a fourteen-year-old girl. The fact that he has a thing for {{lolicon}} (Just looking, no touching) does not help him in this matter.

Swap out the college for a final-year high school setting and the 14 year old for a girl who is to This Troper's best knowledge APPROACHING 13, and you have myself. To make things all the worse, I'm asexual but have an unfair reputation as being oversexed due to a complicated misunderstanding, and pretty much the entirety of my year group and even one of my COUNSELORS knows about my feelings for this girl. Jokes are made. Regularly.

This Troper was severely squicked out when he learned the awful truth of this family:

At first he thought it was an eighty year old woman, a forty year old couple, the male of which was the eighty year old's son, and the forty year old couple had a fifteen or so daughter, and an infant son.

However, it turned out that the eighty year old was the forty year old woman's mother, the forty year old woman was the mother of the ''forty'' year old man (who was actually younger than he looked by about a decade), who's wife was the fifteen-year-old girl. Their son was the infant.

I'm sorry, but you could not have worded that more confusingly or have been more vague with those descriptions.

This Troper's father was twenty years older than her mother, and the two had only known each other for four months at the time of their wedding. The marriage lasted until his death.

This Troper's English teacher is about 13 years younger than her husband. She also stated that by the time she finished kindergarten, her husband was in high school.

One of this troper's grandmothers is a total of 5 years older than his father and the result of his grandfather remarrying after a messy divorce.

This Troper is planning on proposing to his girlfriend, who is 17 years older than him.

This Troper's parents are 12 years apart in age.

This troper's roommate's friend seemed to only date men who were as old as her father (her: early 20s; him/them: mid-40s to early-50s); the only one I met was a bit of an ManChild ("Do you like ''{{Bleach}}'' too?"). She dated an 18-year-old for a while, and then she became a man and now I don't know what his type is.

The roommate herself dated guys were were a couple years younger (her: 26, bf #1: 23; her: 27, bf #2: 18). She ultimately married a guy a couple years older.

My cousin dated a woman 10 years his senior for a few years (him: early 40s; her: early 50s).

This troper's great-grandmother was 16 when she married his great-grandfather, who was in his 40s. To be fair, they were from Syria and this was TheThirties, so this wasn't exactly uncommon, socially or culturally, back then.

This 19 year-old troper still living with his parents recently broke up with his first girlfriend, who is a 28 year-old single mother of two children he never had the chance to meet. He's one of those guys who prefers older, more emotionally mature women.

This troper's mother and father are 40 and 57, respectively. While not as extreme as some cases, it still annoys her a bit when people see the type of relationship as {{Squick}}.

My uncle and his second wife are six years apart in age. He'll be forty one in August, and she's thirty five. The fact that both look younger than their years helps. My mom's actually seven years his senior, and looks closer to ten.

My mother was 23 and my father 40 when I was born. In sort of the same vein, I had a relationship with at 26-year-old friend at the age of 17. It didn't last.

This troper's uncle finally married at 50, his bride was 26 years old. It's been almost ten years now, and they are HappilyMarried with two adorable little girls.

This troper's parents are a May/September: they married when her mom was nineteen and her dad twenty-seven.

This troper's parents got 16 year gap between them.He was 20,she was 36...26 years later and they are still together.Also hardly first time it happened in the family,her grandmother was married to 50 year old man at her age of 20.But it was just after war so you know...

And this one nearrly became involved in a few May/October situations; mostly with Asian exchange students. But decided it was better to let them go home than to keep pursuing.

This troper has a literal example of this - his mom was born in May and is 11 years younger than his dad, who was born in December.

This troper's parents had a 14-year age difference. He was closer to her mom's age, and she was closer to his stepdaughters' age. Funnily, they were both born in December.

This troper got her first boyfriend when she was 19! The first boyfriend was 28 going on 29. Then when she was 22, she began another relationship with the man who would take her virginity -- he was 36 going on 37. Now she's kinda dancing around the concept of "boyfriend/girlfriend" with someone closer to her own age, as he's just a couple of years older than her.

This troper's parents are 12 years apart in age; funnily enough, this troper is also 36 years younger than her mother, meaning that all three are Year of the Pig.

I'm 22 and dating a 36-year-old. Oddly enough, what's more creepy than the age difference is the fact that we're so similar.

This troper's entire family is the embodiment of this trope. The mother and father are ten years apart (he's 60, she's 50), when they divorced she got together with someone of the exact same age difference. The brother started a relationship with a 13 year old girl (he was 17). This troper beat them all though; partner is 50, she's 24. Ironically, brother hasn't spoken to her since, and mother's reaction was 'are you sure he's not using you?' -sigh-

This troper's parents are twenty years apart in age, met when she was in her thirties and he was in his fifties, and have been married now for nearly twenty five years with no signs of stopping. The only problem arose when people assumed dad was our grandad when he was picking us up from school.

This Troper's father was 9 1/2 years older then her mother, (she was in her mid-twenties when they met) since mom died, he's dated several woman, most around a decade younger then him.

This troper is 23. Her fiance is 72. ''She's'' the one who came on to ''him'' first, when she was 21 and he was 70. Also? She lost her virginity to him. Checkmate.

My grandmother is in her fifty's dating a guy younger than her daughter. He is like thirty eight. My mom is 42.

This friend of mine found herself a 21 year old for her boyfriend. She was 13 at the time. Then, he dumped her and she got a trauma about it. Two years later, he's trying to get her back and she's actually ''considering''. Yep, life is weird.

When she was still JailBait, huh? Risky business.

This Troper has wife fourteen years his senior. As a result of this, his step-daughter is fourteen years younger than he is.

This troper is friends with a couple of this type. He's in his forties; she's in her twenties. A lot people seem to get squicked about it, but it really works. It helps that she's very mature for her age and that he's somewhat immature. As a side note, he also often has to show his driver's license to prove he's not in his early thirties.

This troper's parents approach this territory with a nine year age difference. Of course, they also waited nine years before having her. While most of the troper's friend's parents are nearing 45, her's are 50 and 59. Not that extreme, all things considering.

This troper almost got in a relationship with her then guitar teacher, who is 23 years older than her. Also, she was 17 at the time. Nevertheless, they talked about it and decided it was better not to get involved, as he had a wife who was at the time pregnant.

No offence, but your guitar teacher sounds like kind of a sleaze bag. I mean, it's good he didn't cheat after all, but if the urge is there...

JillBug's grandparents married when grandma was 17 and grandpa was 35. Now, her 45-year-old mother has a 30-year-old boyfriend. She also has a friend who began dating a man in his 50s while in her early 20s.

A friend of mine who works at the Ballard farmer's market in Seattle is 28 and married to an Italian guy 11 years older than her. My elder aunt's late husband was 15 years older than her.

Slowly but surely this is becoming my fate. My friend is now 13 and I'm just turning 25. We have so much in common and chemistry also her father knowing me for years completely trusts me to take care of her when I can. I guess the times I am hanging out no one takes any notice is because we both look and act like we're in high school.

After yesterday it is my fate now. Can't be all that bad...

You do know this is fucking illegal, right? And her father trusts you to take care of her because he trusts you not to do things like have sex with you, so you're basically breaching his trust in a MAJOR FUCKING WAY, right? Right?

WifeHusbandry has got to start somewhere I suppose...

Wasn't worried about it because I only treated her like a friend. With job and college I'm never around anyway. So she has long since gotten over that little crush on me and found someone her own age.

This female troper is 19. Last year I briefly dated a 27-year-old guy and am currently with a man who is 39 going on 40. Needless to say we get some seriously weird and disgusted looks from people but we don't really care. It's good for a laugh.

This troper's parents are just short of nine years apart; I would tell you their ages but my mother doesn't like her age to be revealed to anyone. Their marriage has long since disintegrated for reasons unrelated to said age difference.

Other than my parents, I know of many other instances of this trope:

A girl I knew in eighth grade dated a high school senior on and off for nearly a year.

My best friend's mother' aunt (?) had a successful case of this: she went to Vegas for a while and married a man a good 15 years her junior two days later. Their marriage lasted 20+ years before he, the younger man, died.

My grandmother does not like to reveal her age either, and is embarrassed by the fact that she is six months older than her husband.

Amusing case of related LaserGuidedKarma: One of my friends believed it was utterly impossible for a May December Romance to be genuine, and that any such relation was based on selfish motives for one or both parties, and he was very vocal about it (we had a couple of hours-long discussions on the subject). Heck, his cutoff age for these things was pretty small, too- a mutual friend who was 18 (as we were) and dated a 14-year-old girl (legal in Quebec last time I checked) got from him the nickname "Pedo-Ben" (and this was in TheNineties, too, long before the Pedobear MemeticMutation was created). Fastforward 6 years, and my now-24 unbeliever friend starts his first serious, loving relationship... with a 17-year-old girl (7-year difference). Let's just say there were a few sniggering "Pedo-Jeff" jibes from the gang for about a year. They're still a quite functional (if very snarky) couple 8 years later though, which ironically further weakens my friend's previous position.

One of my close friends is 19 years old, and she has been secretly dating a 45 year old friend of her dads for about a year now. This is legal cause the age of consent here is 16, but its still kinda squicky.

This troper and her girlfriend, she's about six years older than this troper. Still we're perfect together, and this troper is a CakeEater anyway, though her girlfriend still worries about her age.

My great-grandmother was my great-grandfather's second wife. Her oldest stepdaughter had been her best friend in school, where they were in the same grade.