@Cirin
It's fine for now.
The issues come in a few years. When you're 32 and he's 47, and he sighs and rolls his eyes at everything you do being 'immature'. When you're 35 but he's 50, and all he wants to talk about is retirement. Can't go on holiday, think of retirement. Can't take a day trip. Can't go to dinner. Got to save. Be responsible. Stop being so short sighted and immature.
It's a problem because he'll have done things, travelled, lived life. He has stories and memories of a life well lived before he settled down. You don't. You've done nothing yet. And don't think for a minute you'll get to do them. He won't go with you again - he'll just tell you none of it's really worth it. You should stay at home, be quiet, put aside silly dreams of travel or adventure or moving home or anything.
It's fine now. It's just not in ten years.
@MakingmeaCake
Is this YOUR experience cirin?! You have known some dull men if that's how you think.
Your post is amazing in the way it's so unlike any 50, 60 or even 70 year olds I know! They are living life to the full.
Many men at 50 are at the peak of their careers and love work.
You also seem incredibly ageist in your opinions of men .
I am sure you know some men who are as your describe makingmeacake - loving life, and living it large at 60 and 70 years old, with the health and spirit of a man half their age, and at the peak of their career at 50, and could run rings around their much younger wife.
However, the scenario that Mirin describes is much more accurate for many men, and how life will be for many women in relationships with men who are virtually a generation older.
As a few posters have said, some age gap relationships work, many will not, and many end up with the younger person being kept back by the older person who just wants to chill and have a quiet life.. (And the younger person will usually be the woman, as men very VERY rarely marry a woman who is virtually a generation older/old enough to be their mother.)
And in addition to wanting a sedentary/quiet life; men often get a bit grumpy and moany as they pass 50. And, as has been said, in some cases, the younger partner (probably the woman,) will end up being a carer for her husband, when she is only in her 50s, or even her 40s.
My DH is in his mid 50s and is just a couple of years older than me. He is grumpy sometimes, and can't be arsed to do much, but then I am pretty much the same. Been there done that, travelled and partied, and had a good eventful life. I was raring to go, and full of life, and wanting new adventures in my 20s and 30s, and right up to my mid 40s... Then I started to get a bit more weary and tired, and preferred to live a more sedentary life too. So we want the same things, and are totally compatible.
I could not have even imagined (when I was in my 30s,) being with a man in his 50s. No way. For soooooo many reasons!