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<blockquote data-quote="Gnarlo" data-source="post: 1951689" data-attributes="member: 2995">I'm with the group that says it really depends on what the ages are generationally (someone who went to A New Hope as a child vs someone who saw Titanic as a child), what your experiences are (whether you've both been divorced, in the army, have careers, etc.), an what your maturity levels are (actually maturity levels like are you in the settle down or party stages of your life, not the &quot;I'm 18 but mentally I feel I'm closer to 40&quot; type of thought). Those can be huge strains on relationships, and the all of the relationships among my friends that have had differences like that have failed.Having said that, my wife hates computers and gaming, thinks SciFi and Fantasy is childish and silly, is upper middle class Iranian and lived there the first 20+ years of her life while I was raised a poor Georgia country boy, exercises every day while I don't like walking out to the mailbox, looks like Princess Jasmine while I resemble Frasier Crane more and more the older I get, and is 7 years older than me (39-46). We've been together happily now for 12 years, so everyone can probably give you anectodal evidence that proves the rule <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gnarlo, post: 1951689, member: 2995"] I'm with the group that says it really depends on what the ages are generationally (someone who went to A New Hope as a child vs someone who saw Titanic as a child), what your experiences are (whether you've both been divorced, in the army, have careers, etc.), an what your maturity levels are (actually maturity levels like are you in the settle down or party stages of your life, not the "I'm 18 but mentally I feel I'm closer to 40" type of thought). Those can be huge strains on relationships, and the all of the relationships among my friends that have had differences like that have failed. Having said that, my wife hates computers and gaming, thinks SciFi and Fantasy is childish and silly, is upper middle class Iranian and lived there the first 20+ years of her life while I was raised a poor Georgia country boy, exercises every day while I don't like walking out to the mailbox, looks like Princess Jasmine while I resemble Frasier Crane more and more the older I get, and is 7 years older than me (39-46). We've been together happily now for 12 years, so everyone can probably give you anectodal evidence that proves the rule :) [/QUOTE]

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