To ask if you think someone of 20 and 26 is a 'medium' sized age gap?

[evergracie]

Literally what the title says.

Yes

Yes. HTH.

I think it’s fine, although I changed a lot between 20 and 26 so I think that could impact on it - if they were at different life stages.

Huh?

Not really, more of a small gap. Wouldn't think twice about it.

Are we talking age gap between siblings or lovers?

A 6 year age gap is normal surely?

I think maybe maturity differences could show more with 20/26 then 30/36 for example, but it could still work. And certainly isn’t noteworthy.

Tell us more, what you are asking about.

DH and I are 5 years different. No issue at all

This sounds like the poster who used to post obsessively about being almost an adult and allowed to do what they want because 17 is almost 18.

I think it’s a big age gap for the lower aged person - when I was 19 I dated a 24 year old for a while and it was quite hard because things in our lives were so different. But in the long term, it’s not much of an age difference. The average for my friends (we’re in our late 20s now) is a 5 year gap.

I would just think that the risk comes if the older person starts to want things that the younger person isn’t ready for yet eg kids

I don't think that it's neccessarily a big gap, but it depends on life stages.
It would be a big gap between an undergraduate and someone with a job and a mortgage. Two people who'd been working for a while, or two students, much less so. I remember when I was 25 and a friend of the same age had a one night stand with a 19 year old and was mortified when he realised how young she was.

In the old days it wasn’t. Nowadays it’s considered a substantial age gap (amongst young people themselves).

There's 5 years between me and DH, it was quite a large gap when we were 19/24 but now we're 41/46 it's not a large gap at all. I think the only time I'll notice the gap is when he retires 5 years before me 😫

I’d think it’s a normal gap.
Mind you, I have a 20 year age gap with my husband, anything less than 10 years seems about average?

There's a 6 year age gap between DH and I, we only ever notice when we talk about something from our childhood, for instance the other week we watched Aladdin with the DC's, DH had never watched it as he was 14 when it came out where as I was 8. Otherwise we never notice and haven't had a problem.

I would say fairly small-ish.

Medium would be 10 years age gap IMO.

Smallish gap but the ages could be an issue.

That's me and DH... I was 20 when I met him. He was 26.
Still together 31 years later... :)

Small gap.

Agree with @newnameforthis7, medium gap would be 10yrs-ish

Big gap 15yrs+ I guess?

There's 15 years between me and DH. Not unusual in our social circle.

I was 19 when I started dating dh and he was 24, and when we got engaged. When we married I was 20 and he was 25. I have just turned 53 and he will be 58 at the end of the month. It works for us!

Broomstick He had a job and a mortgage, and he then paid for me to do my degree when we got married. That worked too, as I lived in our house and studied. It meant I worked hard to get a good degree as he,was funding it.

I married at 18, DH was 25. Both very happy years later. Not a noticeable gap now or then!

I would consider that an average age gap. There's 18 years between my husband and I, and 10 years later, the gap isn't really an issue at all. Not something we ever really think about!

I’d consider anything under 13 years a ‘normal’ age gap because the older one couldn’t realistically be their parent (could at a push sure but not likely).