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What is the difference in ages between you and your FI and how has it affected your relationship?
I am 3/4 (sometimes 3, sometimes 4) years younger than Mr. Peng. It's a nice balance. Sometimes I'm glad we arent the same age. I look at him when he was my age when we married and he was still tailgateing and beer guzzling with his buddies. We still do that stuff, but on rare occasions, not like... every weekend. It helps that his friends are all settled down too. I think 3/4 year age difference has been a plus for us.
I am 2.5 years older than my husband. For us it works perfectly - I make him more mature when he needs it and he reminds me to lighten up when I'm too stuffy.
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I'm four years older than Mrs. Bee. Sometimes I will mention a movie that I saw in high school, and she'll usually point out that she was in elementary school at the time. Then I feel really old.
We're about 6 years apart, give or take about 2 months. I don't think this would work as well if we were closer in age. He was also a huge partier and not well established. I've never been much of a partier, and since I had a baby when I was 20, I was forced to get established fast! Most of are friends are still doing the party thing, but we have a select few who are settled. We still party occasionally, but no wild and crazy parties like he used to have!
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My husband is 5 years older (minus 2 weeks!). I love making fun of him for being old when he mentions something from his childhood and I get to say...yeah I was in third grade when that happened! Otherwise he was already established in his career when I met him and I appreciate that maturity.
My FI is about 2 months older then me.
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My FI is 1 month older than me. Of all the guys I have dated (all older!), he is the one that is closest to my age. I even dated a fella that was 17 years older. THANK GOD, I didn't marry that one!
1.5 years. So sometimes he's 1 year older, and then right after his bday, he's 2 years older for a few more months! It has worked well for us!
3.5 years, but it feels like much less because by the time we met we were both in professional school. He was only a year ahead of me in school so we're at about the same place in our lives - just starting our careers.
I'm 14 mos older and if you ask him he's engaged to Mrs Robinson. He's such a goof.
I am about 4 months older than my fiance. This may be crazy, but I'm always a little sad on my birthday because it means I have 4 months where my age is 1 bigger than his. Isn't that silly?!?
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We're 7 years apart. Since I am the youngest, and he's the oldest- this works really well for us. I often say that if I met him younger, I wouldn't have said yes to a second date and vis versa.
He was ready for marriage before I was, but he never pushed me. And now when I bring up starting a family- he's the one freaking out. We're still on a 2 to 3 year plan, but I told him we need to at least have a kid before he turns 40!! If we were the same age- I'd totally feel the clock ticking!
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My husband and I are 11 years apart and all around I saw it works for us. I never really notice the age difference.
He's four years older.. and he's like Mr. Bee, whenever he brings up something that I'm too young to remember, he always says he feels so old. But I like the age difference, and without it, we wouldn't have met, because although we were freshmen in college the same year (where we met) he had done four years in the military first.
Well here I am with my big honkin age gap - my husband is 12 years older than I am, we were just married in December, he's 39 and I'm 28 in March (he'll turn 40 this Oct. so I guess we're technically 11/12) . It all depends on the person, I never thought I would date, let alone marry someone who was in high school when I was in kindergarten! It's really funny when he's with his old friends because I am totally out of the loop with the music, movies TV shows they all remember. I definitely make fun of hium being old, and he makes fun of me being a baby when he was out having fun, so it all goes around equally! But, if you met my hubby, you'd probably never guess that he's 39, from his looks and definitely his attitude : )
His parents seem WAY old to me, even though they have the same age gap with my parents that he and I do, I guess it seems more amplified when his Dad is 70 and mine is 58.
It's interesting to me that so few couples I 'see' online have age gaps like ours (but some do, like one new bee, is it miss d'orsay?) but personally I am so glad that he got through all of his immaturity and issues and was well trained by other women before he got to me!
I'm 2 years older than Mr. Sushi (there's a 3 month period where we're only 1 year apart). Sometimes I can totally tell that he's younger than I am, but like mrsleopard, we really balance each other out.
My husband is 3 years older, and I have generally dated guys 2-3 years older. I think it makes us more on the same track maturity and life goal wise - meaning I think we will be ready for kids and all that at the same time! Plus dating a guy a few years older means you are ALWAYS younger and that is kind of nice :)
Hehe, I think I have the smallest age gap so far! The Mister is a mere 2 weeks older. :) We're college sweethearts, and everything has work out for us because I think we've had all our major life experiences at the same time.
husband is one year and 10 days older but looks 5 years younger. sigh.
We are 13 years and 360 days apart 
I've never dated anyone even close to my age - the immaturity would have made. me. crazy.
It's the best relationship I've ever been in (duh), so obvioulsy, it works for me!
I do give him a little sh*t though, when looking through his old yearbooks. Hilarious!
we're 10 years apart.....9.75 if you ask him. If I had met him when he was 25, I would NEVER have gone out with him--he was the crazy, just-out-of-college frat boy. then again, when he was 25, i was a sophomore in high school. I'm a VERY firm believer that age doesn't matter when it comes to relationships--asd long as you both are on the same page and in the same place in your lives, the number doesn't matter.
And Quiche...ooooooooh, yes. His old yearbooks KILL me!!!
We're 8 years apart. Our families have been friends since before he was born, but we never noticed each other before I was 24 (and he was 32). If we had when I was any younger, it could have been creepy. But as they say, timing is everything!
And he likes to say that women are 10 years more mature than men... so he only has 2 years of catching up to do.
I seem to be the only one (so far) with an age gap going the more non-traditional way.
We are 11 years apart. Fiance is 26, I'm 37 now. It works for us... he's always been mature and level headed and I've been stolen away in school for a long time (and in an arrested state of development).
I'll say something about Nirvana's music and college, and he'll pipe up with, "Oh, I was in 4th grade!"
His parents are just slightly older than mine, so that's not a factor...
In our daily life we really don't notice a difference, and I spent three years pushing him away because of the age thing before I realized that he was everything that I was waiting for. Meanwhile, he knew from the time we met that we should be together... So I guess women aren't always the more mature ;)
We are only about four years apart. I think it works well because he tends to be way too serious at times and I tend to be flighty so we balance each other. When I get too far out there he pulls me down from the clouds and when he gets super serious I remind him to lighten up and breath a little. We've been together for 8 years, so I say he gets to experience everything before me, and teach me how NOT to do things.
I'm 7 years younger than my FI. All of my aunts/uncles have large age discrepancies and they've all been married for a very long time.
I am actually 2 months older then FH. It's kinda weird a little because I have always dated guys that are at least 2 years older than me.
Maybe that was a sign way back then, these guys that are older than you aren't working out, try someone your age. :-)
Like the rest of the comments we balance one another out.
My husband is 33 days older than me (today is his birthday!), and it works for us:) We've known each other since we were 4, so if we hadn't been the same age we wouldn't have been in Sunday School classes and stuff like that together, so we probably wouldn't be married. I do give him a hard time for being an old man during this month that he's older than me, but I love that we've gone through all the same stuff together at the same time
5 years apart-- which works perfectly for us. I used to have an arbitrary "rule" about dating guys only a couple years older than me, since I felt older would be too stuffy, but as I get older, my perspectives on that have changed. I love that we can party together (not very frequently) AND enjoy cuddling on the couch (more often), and he's also at the stage in his life, both personally and career-wise, where he's actually looking forward to a serious committment like marriage. We have different frames of reference in terms of pop culture, but it just makes us better on trivia night. 
My husband is 4 years older than me and sometimes he would ask me have you heard this song in the 80's and I told him I have no clue who sang it and I was a kid by then. And in Chinese Zodiac sign we are perfect match cause he's the year of the Tiger and I'm a horse sign of what older generation parents believe in.
Less than a year for me! I aggree that I think it's more about where you are in life than age. Which, in a way, is why I am glad that Mr. Bananas graduated a year before me and had a year to ease out of the frat boy life before I moved in - less of a shock, I think.
He's two years and a month older, but we are basically at the same stage in life, since he had a 5 year degree I finished college a semester later and we're now both sort of established in our careers. We are both in that stage where we like to party hard on the weekends and go to bed early almost every weeknight.
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We're 9 years apart. I'm 28 and he's 37. It's a nice difference and I don't really notice it, except for the fact that I'm about to have two teenage sons.
Oh, and the fact that I tease him about the fact that when he graduated from high school I was still playing Barbie.
We're 7 years apart- he's 27 and I'm 20. And no, he's not some phsyco pervert ;) It works for us- I tell him all the time that I'm so glad he's as old as he is, because guys closer to my age are so immature!
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We are just slightly over a year apart. I could see why many women would be with older men because of the whole maturity thing. Many guys I know his age aren't as mature as him, so I guess I got lucky!
I'm one year and one month older than my FI. He teases me relentlessly b/c we'll never be the same age, and I'll always be older than him. Oh well, my revenge is looking years younger! 
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I am exactly 6 weeks older than my fiancee, but given that his mother overcarried him by about a month or so, we are basically the same age except he was born too late lol. I keep giving him hard time that he was born as a one year old. Given that he was 11.5lbs (!) when he was born it's not that far from the truth.
There are 17 days between us, and the numbers in the dates are opposite (13/31). I tease him about not ever being able to forget my birthday (he wouldn't anyway, he's very thoughtful about dates) but that has worked out well as a reminder for each other's family to remember our birthdays.
yeah, I have an old man for a hubby!!! but i love him.
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Two and a half year difference, but I voted 3 just to round up. He was my brother's friend, and that is how we met. I don't see an age difference really, we are at the same point in our lives, wanting the same things...works well for us.
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