Yes I'm my experience age does really matter. Anyone who says it doesn't is either lying or in denial. Now, mind you my husband is almost 20 years older than me (he had no kids before we met and we share two sons together which really assisted in us making our relationship long-term and serious because I wouldn't have been as interested if he had kids especially kids close or even older than myself). So, while age is important, or specially the age/generational gap, in a relationship it CAN work. My husband and I have been together for 8 plus years and still going strong. It's hard as hell sometimes and a lot of work on both sides in our marriage because of the generational gap (and personality differences as I'm very assertive and he's much more nonconfrontational in most situations). However, being very adaptable helps a lot. I'm much more mature than many in my age group and my husband keeps himself in very good physical shape and is very adoptable. More importantly, we share many of the same morals and general outlook so that definitely helps. We also compliment one another. That said, I have noticed that when the man is older (and can be an actual man and not some immature child in a man's body) it CAN work well with a younger woman, even a significantly younger woman. On the flip side, I have yet to see a long-term and relatively healthy relationship wherein the woman is older (especially significantly older) than her man. Every one of these such relationships ended because the man eventually lost interest (or never truly was interested in the first place and just wanted a mommy figure or someone to take care of him) in the older woman and it was hard on the older woman dealing with a younger and often time less mature man. I just wouldn't recommend this kind of relationship for any woman because it's almost always a doomed relationship because of the biological and mental differences in men and women and our maturity levels.
