All About Us

All About Us
Hey guys I am copying this from the OW/YM side...I think it's a great idea!!!

My name is Meredith, I am 29 years old.... happily married to a man who is 17 years my senior he is 46. We have been married for 1 year August 30th and Together for 3 years. We just had a beautiful bouncing baby boy On July 8th of this year.....He is the loves of our lives and truely represents the love we both share for each other!!!!

My Parents and my twin sister are very supportive of my relationship , always have been.....They just love my husband... the age isn't ever an issue. Sometimes I swear they love him more than Me...LOL.....I came to ageless because I had doubts that these types of relationships work.. but I was wrong....If I went with my first doubt I wouldn't be as happy as I am today....
Now I'm here to offer support and have fun with the wonderful people we have here on this board.......

Meredith

Okay...my turn! (late as usual).

Im Jody...he's James. I was 32 when we started going out...he was 18.

Now I am 36, and he is 21 (I hate those few months before his birthday! lol). We are 14 years and some months apart in age.

We live in Kansas. I have 3 children, two of which he plays a significant part in raising. The other child is 17, and the raising part is basically done. *smiles*

I work from a home office, and James works in the city...so most usually during the week he stays in the city and only comes home on the weekend to avoid a 50-mile commute each way.

Ummm...what else? James hobbies are 4-wheelers and basically anything with tires that can travel through mud, and mine is drag racing on the weekends with my family, reading and AGELESS.

*smiles*

Im really thrilled to have this new area of the site.

I'd like to jump in too. I know I don't post much but I lurk DAILY and would like to become of a part of this forum. Particularly this "long term" forum - I'm happy that it was created.

I'm 35 and my guy is 22. We met online in August of 2003. So we've made it past the "whole year" mark! Woohoo. We live together and have for most of our relationship so we've had our usual ups and downs. We have a blended family - his 2 year old and my 11 year old.

My guy has had a pretty rough life up until this point and we've had some issues to deal with because of his childhood, etc. However, I'm happy to say that things are going well and we are working together to have an open, honest, and happy relationship, something that he hasn't had before.

I too was reluctant to become involved with a younger guy because I had always been in relationships with older men or men closer to my age, however he had no reservations and kept insisting that it wasn't a big deal. So I caved and decided what the heck - I'll give it a whirl - and here we are.

Hi, Roselyn here. I am 41, Joey is 21. We have been together for one wonderful, exciting, joy-filled, tumultuous, intense year as of this month and hope to be together forever (his words, and mine, of course, but I was more thrilled to hear him say it, smile). I would love to hear from other ladies who are in their 40's or close, in love and/or living together with a YM 20-23 yrs. or so...Please PM me and I will send my email address. I LOVE THIS SUPPORT GROUP!

Quick note to Jo: Rereading and being reminding about how you two started and his young age again gave me hope and made me feel I had a kindred spirit out there who understands and is making it...thanks for being there! Hugs!

Hi, I haven't posted in a while, but I would like to re-tell my story!

I am 43 and my sweetheart just turned 24. We have been living happily together for 2 and a half years now. We have been together for 3 1/2 years. We met online. We lived 7 hours away from each other, so we only got to see each other about one weekend out of every month.

I too need validation after falling in love with a much younger man, this website totally helped me. Even thought I dont post often, just reading the other posts made me feel so much better.

Paul and I plan on getting married, we're just not in a big hurry. Why change a good thing? I have two children, my daughter is 18 and my son is 13. They accepted Paul right away and grew to love him. He loves them and treats them as though they are his own children, regardless of their ages.

We get along so perfectly and are very happy together. We've only had one fight, and it was really silly. But we've been through some rough times as far as health issues and money issues that only made us stronger.

My family adores him and everyone is so happy for me. However, lol...there's his family. They still have a hard time with it. And it's only because of the age difference. They like me as a person, they say, but they feel our relationship is not "natural" and inappropriate.

Oh well. What are you gonna do? Can't please them all.

I'm with you Mrs. Hedgehog!! I love reading these .....

Hi all

I'm Debby, 43, with a wonderful 32 (just turned as of September) year old named Jeff whom I met in April 03. We started dating in early June 03 so it's been over 16 months now, and we're very very happy. The age thing was an issue for me at the beginning but to be honest, I don't really think about it anymore. He teases me sometimes about it (Like, "Hey be careful, you may break a hip!") but it's all in good fun and not a problem at all.

I have 3 kids, ages 19, 15 and 12, two boys with a girl in the middle. The older boy is in the Navy in Florida, the younger lives with his dad, my daughter lives with me, and my bf has a 4 year old daughter who is with us 1/2 the time. We juggle a lot to get the kids together, but it's working.

My friends and family think he's absolutely wonderful, and I get along with his, as well. His father did mention to him once that I have more "life experience" than he does....**shrug**.....so what's your point, Pops??? I may have been alive longer, but to be honest, Jeff is much more savvy than I am about alot of things.

This is the best and most equal relationship I've ever had, which I find interesting considering the age gap.

I am so happy that I found this site at the beginning of our relationship. It truly has helped me to be okay with things and I thank all of you!!

My turn.....and let me just say it is so wonderful to learn of all these fabulous relationships!!!!

I'm BellaLove, or April in the real world, I am 22. My honey is 42 and the light of my life. This Sunday will be our 3 year anniversary together. :-) No ring yet.....but I can just feel it any day now! We have been living together for just over a year, and a couple months ago we bought a condo just 30 minutes north of Santa Barbara. We hope to have many, many years ahead of us complete with a couple children of our own.

Well, I'm pretty new here, but would like to formally introduce myself :)

I'm Jen, I'm 22 and my bf is 30, not a huge age gap, but it can cause difficulties..

I'm the mother of a 3 1/2 year old, and the birthmother of an 8 month old... My bf is the father of an 8 year old... We're both divorced.

We're currently LDR, but my daughter and I are moving in 15 days to be with him!!!!!!

We've been together nearing 2 years now, and plan to marry sometime next year :)

Its so nice to see more stories about us...... :) Bella as you know I love it that your back!!!!

Lets keep the stories going....

Most of you already know my story. So for the newer folks, here goes.

I was 23 she was 40 I looked older than my age and she looked younger than hers. We met at a bar where she worked. I ask her out, she said yes. At first it was all about sex. Then it turned from lust to love.
My family fell in love with her and her folks thought I was the best thing to happen to her. No one cared about the age thing. not even her kids who were'nt much younger than me.
I was happy and she was happy.
That was 27 years ago.
There has been a couple of rough spots but a whole lot of good times too.
Being honest with each other, and never going to bed angry with one another, has worked for us.



Cowboy

OK, Me too!

I'm MadBess, I am married to a wonderful man 18 years my senior. We met in 2000, when I started a temp job at a computer company, he was the project manager for the project I was working on. We started dating in the Spring of 2001 with everyone's knowledge. He took himself out of anything having to do with my raises or reviews, so that there wouldn't be any conflict no matter what happened.

He had been separated for a number of years, though still legally married, when we started dating. But on our second date, he told me it was time to get the divorce, which he eventually did.
We married in Minnesota (my home state) in November of 2002. (So we have our 2 year anniversary coming up.)

I had some doubts and questions at the beginning which is why I found this site, just to see if it was feesable. Now, I tend to give out more advice than I seek, because things just seem really normal to me now. In fact, I just realized looking at my husband last night that I keep falling in love with him all over again.

My parents are very supportive - they like him a lot. After the initial shock of the age gap, they met him and said it was perfectly obvious that he was madly in love with me, and that he wanted to "take care of me". (Well, I guess that's what they really wanted for their only daughter. grumble grumble)

We lived in England for the first year of our marriage because of his job (I quit not long after we got married), then we moved out here to San Francisco because he is from here and desparately wanted to move back. He ends up travelling a lot for the job which is frustrating, but he has been here for 3 weeks now and I am happy. I am an actress and my career has really taken off since we came to SF a year ago, so I never want to leave. (In fact a movie I filmed this summer may have a distributer this coming spring, so I will let y'all know when and where to look for it!)

I stick around the site because I just like the people here.