You’re only as old as you feel

Have you ever been out with someone younger than you and said that they make you feel young?

Have you ever been the youngest in a relationship and been told you keep your partner young?

Is there a rule written somewhere that says we have to have relationships with someone within 2 years of our age?

I worked with a client recently who had met someone.  She’d spent time getting to know them, established they had plenty in common and she felt that he, like her, wanted to progress to a relationship but there was a problem.

A 17-year age gap.

I established that they were both worried about what other people might say so had decided they were better off as friends.  It was making them both miserable but they’d agreed it was for the best.

For whom?

Two adults, with lots in common and an already strong platonic relationship were choosing to allow the opinion of others to halt their chance of future love and happiness.

I helped them work through it and they both agreed that actually age and an age-gap is just a number because ultimately you are as young as you feel.

What’s the age gap in your relationship?

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old;

we grow old because we stop playing.”

George Bernard Shaw