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When the partner is older

Those who love each other, love each other: A relationship with an age difference should not be a cause for excitement (symbol image). Our author loves a significantly older man. For her, this doesn't matter, but for many others it apparently does. What's the point? The relationship column "Me. You. Him. Her. It." I don't even want to make it exciting. My boyfriend is 19 years older than me. When we met in a bar four years ago, I was just in my early 20s. At the time, I never would have believed there could be a big age difference between us. Then, on our first date, he showed me a photo of himself as a teenager. "Fuck, that's from the eighties," I thought - and avoided the question of age as much as possible. When it came out a short time later, we didn't care. Because: it fit. Soon we moved in together. At a welcome party for the neighbors, we were finally asked the inevitable question: "Tell me, how old are you?" "I'm 21...