Long-Term Issues That Come Up When Dating A Younger Man
Societally imposed distance
There is an excellent example of this happening right now. There are couples with such a big age difference that only one person is eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine presently. So you have couples where the vaccinated one feels held back by the non-vaccinated one. For a while, there were the early hours when grocery stores only allowed in customers over a certain age. There are many societally imposed measures like this that create distance between the “young” and the “old.” And as you get older, you and your younger man may face them more and more. Society almost forces you to face the age gap and to feel that it’s an inconvenience.